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Five-year-old footage of Mullah Mohammed Omar (center) rallying his Taliban troops in Kandahar, Afghanistan, was found in the BBC's vaults and aired in 2009. (Associated Press/BBC TV) ** FILE **

Taliban head warns Afghanistan: Don’t deal with Americans

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Afghan men sit among the debris of their destroyed school in the village of Budyali in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on March 19, 2013. Taliban militants attacked the nearby district headquarters in July 2011, then took refuge in the school. The Afghan National Army requested help from coalition forces, who responded with drones, fighter jets and rockets, leaving the school destroyed, according to village elders. (Associated Press)

Taliban kill 2 Afghan children over espionage charges in Kunar: police

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 4, 2009 photo, Pakistani Taliban commander Latif Mehsud sits with fellows in Sararogha in south Waziristan in Pakistan. U.S. troops are holding the senior Pakistani Taliban commander they captured in Afghanistan a week ago, an Afghan provincial official said Friday, Oct. 11, 2013. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

Senior Taliban commander tied to failed NYC Times Square bomb plot captured

Associated Press

Abdullah Abdullah (center), a prominent Afghan opposition leader, registers his candidacy in next year's presidential election in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. The election will be key in helping to determine the success or failure of 12 years of U.S.-led military and political intervention in the country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan presidential candidates finish registration

By Patrick Quinn and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Abdullah Abdullah (center), a prominent Afghan opposition leader, registers his candidacy in next year's presidential election in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2013. The election will be key in helping to determine the success or failure of 12 years of U.S.-led military and political intervention in the country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan opposition leader to run for president

By Patrick Quinn and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Two Marine Corps generals fired for failure to secure base in Afghanistan

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Gen. James Amos, commandant of the Marine Corps, ordered the general overseeing all desecration cases to "crush" the defendants, who included Capt. James V. Clement. (Associated Press)

Marine Corps whistleblower faces vengeance from superiors

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Malala Yousafzai addresses students and faculty after receiving the 2013 Peter J. Gomes Humanitarian Award at Harvard University on Friday, Sept. 27, 2013, in Cambridge, Mass. The Pakistani teenager, an advocate for education for girls, survived a Taliban assassination attempt last year on her way home from school. (AP Photo/Jessica Rinaldi)

Harvard honors Pakistani girl who survived Taliban assassination attempt

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A Pakistani Christian woman mourns the death of her relatives at the site of a suicide attack on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013. The bombing was in one of the worst assaults on the country’s Christian minority in years. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Attack on Pakistani church kills 75 people, wounds 110

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

** FILE ** The Taliban's then-Foreign Minister Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil in Kandahar, Afghanistan is seen in this March 4, 2001 photo. Muttawakil, who served as foreign minister when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, hailed Pakistan's release of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's former deputy leader, on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Kamal Khan, File)

Pakistan releases one of Taliban’s founding members from prison

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Taliban bomb kills Pakistani general, two officers

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Afghan security personnel assist an injured police after a suicide car bombing and a gunfight near the U.S. Consulate in Herat Province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Sept. 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi)

Taliban attack at U.S. Consulate in Afghanistan leaves several dead

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** This image made on Jan. 12, 2012, from an undated video posted on the Internet by a YouTube user self-identified as "semperfiLoneVoice" shows men in U.S. Marine combat gear standing in a semicircle over three bodies. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta branded as "utterly despicable" the video purporting to show four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. (Associated Press)

Marine Corps drops Taliban urination desecration case; commandant saves face

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Author of best-seller that criticized Taliban shot by Taliban outside home

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Afghans investigate the remains of a burned-out vehicle after a suicide attack in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013. The Taliban launched their most complex attack this year — a failed effort to overrun a NATO base in the province that killed one U.S. soldier and wounded 10 Polish soldiers and dozens of Afghans. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

Taliban militants ambush, kill 15 Afghan police along highway

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Afghan President Hamid Karzai (foreground) inspects the guard of honor during Independence Day celebrations at the Defense Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Aug 19, 2013. Mr. Karzai and Cabinet members attended a parade on Monday to mark the event, which commemorates the day Afghanistan signed a treaty with Britain in 1919 making it independent. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan President Hamid Karzai sacks attorney general for secret Taliban talks

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

**FILE** Afghan men sit among the debris of their destroyed school in the village of Budyali in the Nangarhar province of Afghanistan on March 19, 2013. Taliban militants attacked the nearby district headquarters in July 2011, then took refuge in the school. The Afghan National Army requested help from coalition forces, who responded with drones, fighter jets and rockets, leaving the school destroyed, according to village elders. (Associated Press)

U.S., Afghans gearing up for spike in Taliban violence

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

KUHNER: Who betrayed Navy SEAL Team 6?

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times

Army 1st Lt. Christian Gehrels relies on his interpreter to communicate with Afghans. After Lt. Gehrels and other U.S. troops are gone by the end of next year, Afghans assisting the coalition will be left with little protection. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: Abandoning friends

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES