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In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 photo, negotiators from Pakistani Taliban committee, from left, to right Ibrahim Khan, Maulana Sami-ul-Haq and Maulana Abdul Aziz, listen to a reporter during their press conference in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Pakistani government has recently opened negotiations with domestic militants called the Pakistani Taliban designed to end years of fighting in the northwest that has cost thousands of lives and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan-Taliban peace talks: What’s at stake?

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

Afghan capital sees 1st polio case since 2001

Associated Press

Taliban video shows captured dog allegedly belonging to the U.S. military.

Taliban claim to have captured U.S. military dog during ISAF mission

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. scales back drones in Pakistan for Taliban talks: report

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This is a Friday, Jan. 4, 2002, file photo of Afghan interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai, left, and U.N. Special Representative to Afghanistan Lakhdar Brahimi, examine the agreement which establishes the role of International Security Assistance Force for Afghanistan, at a gathering in Kabul. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley. File)

Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai in secret talks with Taliban: report

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Feb. 3, 2014 photo, Tolo TV staffers talk during a meeting at their office in Kabul, Afghanistan. The proliferation of Afghan media in the past 12 years is one of the most visible bright spots of the fraught project to foster a stable democracy. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Election coverage shows growth of new Afghan media

By KAY JOHNSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 6, 2013 file photo, former Foreign Minister Zalmai Rassoul waves at his supporters after registering his candidacy in the 2014 presidential election in Kabul, Afghanistan. A former foreign minister, Rassoul has been national security adviser to the government and is seen as close to Karzai. He could end up being a consensus candidate among many political factions. A Pashtun like Karzai, he has a medical degree and is fluent in five languages, including French, English and Italian. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghanistan’s presidential campaign to begin

By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD - Associated Press

Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai says U.S., not Taliban, secretly conducted fatal attacks

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 23, 2011 file photograph, Afghan detainees, seen through a mesh wire fence, prepare for noon prayers inside the Parwan detention facility near Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan. The Afghan government has begun the process of releasing three dozen prisoners, officials said Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, despite U.S. protests that they are highly dangerous, the latest sign of deteriorating relations between the two countries ahead of the year-end withdrawal of most international combat troops. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin, File)

Afghanistan to release ‘dangerous’ prisoners

By CASSANDRA VINOGRAD - Associated Press

Illustration by M. Ryder/ Tribune Content Agency

FEULNER: A smarter strategy needed in Afghanistan than just exiting

By Ed Feulner

** FILE ** This Sept. 27, 2010, file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, shows a U.S. military guard walking a corridor between detainee cells at the Parwan detention facility near Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

U.S. denounces Afghanistan’s order to free 37 Taliban-tied inmates

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - This file photo released by Universal Pictures shows Taylor Kitsch, left, as Michael Murphy and Mark Wahlberg as Marcus Luttrell in a scene from the film, “Lone Survivor.&quot; The Navy SEAL drama earned $37.8 million in its first weekend of wide release. (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Gregory R. Peters, File)

HARPER: A coordinated media assault on a pro-military film

By Christopher Harper

People look at the wreckage of a passenger bus destroyed in a bomb blast in the Mastong district, near Quetta, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2014. A roadside car bomb hit a bus of Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran, killing several people and wounding many, in restive Baluchistan province, said a top security official. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistani air force pounds militant hide-outs

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

A Pakistani police officer stands guard at checkpoint on a road leading to the site of bomb explosion in Bannu, Pakistan on Sunday Jan. 19, 2014. A regular Sunday morning troop rotation going into the Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan was shattered by an explosion that killed tens of people, mostly paramilitary troops. The Pakistani Taliban claims responsibility for placing the bomb on one of the trucks hired for the job. (AP Photo/Ijaz Muhammad)

Taliban bomb kills 13 near main Pakistani army HQ

By ANJUM NAVEED and ASIF SHAHZAD - Associated Press

Aid worker from Michigan killed in Afghan attack

Associated Press

An Afghan police walks ahead of members of civil society organizations for their protection as they march in a street, during an anti terrorism demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. Hundreds of Afghans gathered outside a Lebanese restaurant in Kabul on Sunday to protest against Taliban attack that killed 21 people. The assault Friday by a Taliban bomber and two gunmen against the La Taverna du Liban restaurant was deadliest single attack against foreign civilians in the course of a nearly 13-year U.S.-led war there now approaching its end. They chanted slogans against terrorism as they laid flowers at the site of the attack. The dead included 13 foreigners and eight Afghans, all civilians. The attack came as security has been deteriorating and apprehension has been growing among Afghans over their country's future as U.S.-led foreign forces prepare for a final withdrawal at the end of the year. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

Afghan president again demands US airstrikes end

By PATRICK QUINN - Associated Press

Afghan security forces investigate the aftermath of Friday's suicide attack and shooting in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 18, 2014. A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a Kabul restaurant, seen in the background, filled with foreigners and affluent Afghans, while two gunmen snuck in through the back door and opened fire Friday in a brazen dinnertime attack that killed 16 people, officials said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

3 Americans killed in Taliban attack on Afghan restaurant

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Afghan police officers watch the site of a Taliban attack last year against NATO supply trucks near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. After more than 13 years of American bloodshed and treasure, the U.S. military will leave national security in the hands of Afghans. (Associated Press)

Chaos in Iraq could be omen for Afghanistan without U.S. troops

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This photo released by Universal Pictures shows Taylor Kitsch, left, as Michael Murphy and Mark Wahlberg as Marcus Luttrell in a scene from the film, &#8220;Lone Survivor." (AP Photo/Universal Pictures, Gregory R. Peters)

MOVIE REVIEW: ‘Lone Survivor’

By Peter Suderman

Pakistan home explosion kills 9, including children

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times