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**FILE** This undated file photo reportedly shows the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar. (Associated Press)

Taliban leader downplays talks with U.S.

By Ashish Kumar Sen - 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)

Tied up for years in U.S. red tape, Afghan aides are Taliban targets

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Security officials conduct investigation at the scene of suicide bomb attacks in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Saturday, 3, 2013. Three suicide attackers killed at least nine civilians, most of them children, in a botched attack Saturday on the Indian consulate in an eastern Afghan city near the border with Pakistan, security officials said. (Associated Press)

9 Afghans killed in attack on Indian consulate

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**FILE** The sun rises May 13, 2009, over the Guantanamo detention facility at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. (Associated Press)

U.S. extends olive branch to Taliban, releases 5 Gitmo detainees: Report

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Richard Sippl, a flight crew chief assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 169, fires a 7.62 mm M134 Minigun. (Credit: Department of Defense)

Crisis in Kabul: Security at U.S. Embassy in disarray, diplomats at risk

By Sara Carter - The Washington Times

Wonder Woman and Supergirl now have a Pakistani counterpart in the pantheon of female superheroes. Meet Burka Avenger: a mild-mannered teacher with secret martial arts skills who uses a flowing black burka to hide her identity as she fights local thugs seeking to shut down the girls' school where she works. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Female superhero Burka Avenger fights for women’s rights in Pakistan

By Sebastian Abbot - Associated Press

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, right, holds Malala Yousafzai's hand while posing for photographers, Friday, July 12, 2013, at United Nations headquarters. Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, celebrated her 16th birthday on Friday addressing the United Nations. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Taliban to Malala Yousafzai: Why we shot you

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This photo was taken on Thursday, June 20, 2013, shows the Taliban flag visible through a gap in a wall of the new office of the Afghan Taliban in Doha, Qatar, after the opening of the office several days ago. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

Angry Taliban shutter Qatar office over flag, sign disputes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

CHELLANEY: Afghanistan’s looming partition

By Brahma Chellaney

Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, the Afghan army chief of staff, speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, June 13, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan army head: Pakistan controls the Taliban

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Afghan security and intelligence officers stand guard near the entrance gate of the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, June 25, 2013. Suicide attackers blew up a car bomb and battled security forces outside Afghanistan's presidential palace Tuesday after infiltrating one of the most secure areas of the capital. The army said the attackers were killed but knew of no other deaths. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Taliban attack Afghanistan presidential palace

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

3 Taliban militants mistakenly blow themselves up in Afghanistan

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Foreign Ministry spokesman Janan Mosazai speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 23, 2013. Mosazai said the Afghan government remains willing to send a peace delegation to Doha to negotiate with the Taliban once it has its explanation of how the Taliban were allowed to open an office in Qatar that was akin to an embassy. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Police take down Taliban flag and flagpole as peace talks with U.S. hover

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest mountain in the world, is seen from the Karakorum Highway, leading to neighboring China, in Pakistan's northern area. Gunmen wearing police uniforms killed nine foreign tourists and one Pakistani before dawn on Sunday, June 23, 2013, at the base camp on the mountain. (AP Photo/Musaf Zaman Kazmi)

Islamic militants kill 9 foreign tourists, 1 Pakistani

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

U.S. Ambassador to Qatar Susan Ziadeh, left, walks with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, second from left, and Ambassador Ibrahim Fakhroo, Qatari Chief of Protocol, on Kerry's arrival in Doha, Qatar, on Saturday, June 22, 2013. (Associated Press)

U.S., Arab and European allies pledge more support for Syrian rebels

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Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

GORDON: The peril lurking in trusting the Taliban

By J.D. Gordon

**FILE** Afghan security forces members stand guard at the site of a blast near the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 18, 2013. The large bomb exploded in the Afghan capital as the international military coalition hands over responsibility for fighting the Taliban insurgency to the nascent national army and police they have been training. (Associated Press)

U.S., Afghan officials to open talks with Taliban

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl shot in the head by the Taliban, attends her first post-shooting day of school on Tuesday, March 19, 2013, just weeks after being released from the hospital. The 15-year-old participated in lessons at the Edgbaston High School for Girls in Birmingham, England. (AP Photo/Malala Press Office)

Family fearful for 16-year-old actress portraying Malala Yousafzai

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Policemen stand guard near the scene where Afghan intelligence chief Asadullah Khalid was wounded in an assassination attempt in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Bombing wounds Afghan intelligence chief

By Amir Shah - Associated Press

Karzai reaffirms 2014 goal for Afghan-led security

By Deb Riechmann and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press