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Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Gen. John Campbell, center, cases the ISAF flag during a ceremony at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014. The United States and NATO formally ended their war in Afghanistan on Sunday with the ceremony at their military headquarters in Kabul as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as ferocious and deadly as at any time since the 2001 invasion that unseated the Taliban regime following the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

U.S., NATO mark end of 13-year war in Afghanistan

By LYNNE O'DONNELL - Associated Press

In this file photo taken Dec. 10, 2014, Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a news conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Afghans hope for change after bloody year

By Lynne O'Donnell - Associated Press

Security is beefed up outside the prime minister house during a meeting of all political parties and the military leadership to hash out new counter-terrorism policies, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Pakistan's prime minister says the country will set up special trial courts under the supervision of military officers to prosecute terrorism cases in the wake of the Taliban school massacre. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan to set up military courts for terrorism

By Asif Shahzad and Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

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Bowe Bergdahl: Four-star general Mark Milley handed soldier’s court martial case

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Pakistani police officers carry the casket of their fellow officer killed in the gunbattle with militants, during the funeral procession in Peshawar, Pakistan, Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014. A security official and a police officer were killed during a shootout with militants in Peshawar, police officer Ijaz Ahmed said. He said two militants were killed. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

U.S. drone strike in Pakistan kills 5 Taliban fighters

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 2014 file photo provided by Eugene R. Fidell, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl prepares to be interviewed by Army investigators. U.S. officials have finished an investigation into how and why Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (boh BURG'-dahl) disappeared from his base in Afghanistan. Bergdahl was held captive for five years by the Taliban. (AP Photo/Eugene R. Fidell, File) MANDATORY CREDIT

Bowe Bergdahl investigation ends; Chuck Hagel and top leaders briefed

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Pakistani student, Mohammad Baqair, who survived last Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school and was slightly injured, poses for a picture holding a photograph of his mother a victim of the attack, who was a teacher at the school, at his home, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Thursday, Dec. 18, 2014. The Taliban massacre that killed more than 140 people, mostly children, at a military-run school in northwestern Pakistan left a scene of heart-wrenching devastation, pools of blood and young lives snuffed out as the nation mourned and mass funerals for the victims got underway. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

Taliban hit list for young boys used at Pakistan school massacre

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

The Ghost of Flight 93 Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

CAL THOMAS: Enhanced interrogation limits for terrorists risk American lives

By Cal Thomas

This photo released in a statement by the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 shows the Taliban fighters who stormed a military-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, killing more than 140 people, most of them children. In an email on Wednesday, the Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani claimed the attack was justified because the Pakistani army has allegedly long been killing innocent children and families of their fighters. (AP Photo/Pakistani Taliban handout)

EDITORIAL: Pakistan Taliban terrorists killed human decency hope everywhere

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Pakistan army soldiers stand outside the auditorium of an Army Public School a day after an attack on the school, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistani kids recount Taliban orders: ‘Children are under the benches. Kill them.’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Pakistan terror: 141 dead in Taliban attack at Peshawar school

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Young targets: Hospital security guards carried out the dead and wounded after the Taliban launched one of the most deadly terrorist attacks ever in Pakistan. Gunmen stormed an army-run school that teaches children in grades one through 10. (Associated Press)

Pakistan school massacre counters assertions Taliban crippled by U.S. drone strikes

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat (AP Photo)

RUSTY HUMPHRIES: First, show me al Qaeda’s intel report

By Rusty Humphries

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, Pakistani Taliban commander Latif Mehsud sits with fellows in Sararogha in south Waziristan in Pakistan. The U.S. military in Afghanistan has handed over three Pakistani detainees to Islamabad, including one who Pakistani intelligence officers said is a senior Taliban commander long wanted by the Pakistani government. The transfer of Mehsud, a close confidante of the former head of the Pakistani Taliban, underlines the improving relations between the U.S., Pakistan and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)

U.S. hands over senior Taliban commander to Pakistan

By REBECCA SANTANA and ISHTIAQ MAHSUD - Associated Press

** FILE ** U.S. soldiers patrol through Kabul, Afghanistan, in December, 2010. (Associated Press)

Chuck Hagel: More U.S. troops than planned to stay in Afghanistan

Associated Press

This image made from video posted online by militants on Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows Luke Somers, an American photojournalist born in Britain and held hostage by al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen. The Pentagon says a hostage rescue mission last month in Yemen failed to liberate American Somers because he was not present at the targeted location. (AP Photo/Militant Video)

White House confirms failed secret mission to rescue American held by al Qaeda

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this March 3, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Army, Brig. Gen. Harold Greene, right, speaks beside Gen. Ann Dunwoody at the Natick Soldier Systems Center in Natick, Mass. Maj. Gen. Greene, the two-star Army general who on Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2014, became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer to be killed in either of America's post-9/11 wars, was an engineer who rose through the ranks as an expert in developing and fielding the Army's war materiel. He was on his first deployment to a war zone.(AP Photo/U.S. Army, David Kamm)

Afghan soldier who killed U.S. general was disgruntled, not Taliban: report

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Ashraf Ghani, Afghan president, to overhaul security

By Lynne O'Donnell - Associated Press

Afghan security forces inspect the site of an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 28, 2014. Taliban fighters staged an attack Thursday evening in an upscale district in the Afghan capital Kabul. Witnesses described multiple explosions and bursts of gunfire in the Wazir Akbar Khan district, which contains numerous foreign embassies and compounds housing international agencies and companies - as well as the homes of some senior Afghan government officials. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban suicide bombers hit Kabul, raid foreign guesthouse in Afghan capital

By Lynne O'Donnell - Associated Press