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Taliban fighters (AP/Ishtiaq Mahsud)

US tries to salvage talks with Taliban

Amir Shah, David Rising

Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai (AP/Ibrahim Usta)

Karzai suspends peace talks with Taliban

Amir Shah, David Rising

An Afghan Police officer inspects the scene after two bombs exploded at a Police checkpoint in the city of Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, May. 15, 2013. (AP/Rahmat Gul)

At least 12 killed in Kabul car bombing

Amir Shah, Kathy Gannon

Afghan police officer kills 2 U.S. troops

Heidi Vogt, Amir Shah

An Afghan soldier takes position under a huge poster of Afghan President Hamid Karzai with his late brother Ahmad Wali Karzai, during a gun battle with militants in Kabul, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2011. Taliban insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and assault rifles at the U.S. Embassy, NATO headquarters and other buildings in the heart of the Afghan capital Tuesday in a brazen attack two days after the United States marked the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

U.S. ambassador: Haqqani group behind Kabul attack

Heidi Vogt, Amir Shah

Members of U.S. Marine Scout-Sniper team look for a Taliban position in a nearby tree-line, during an exchange of fire with Taliban militants, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) (AP)

Taliban attack U.S. Embassy, other Kabul buildings

Rahim Faiez, Amir Shah

Afghans shout anti- US slogans during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan on Friday, April 1, 2011. Eight foreigners were killed on Friday after demonstrators protesting a reported burning of the Muslim holy book stormed a United Nations (UN) office in northern Afghanistan, opening fire on guards and setting fires inside the compound, a top Afghan police official said. Right banner says 'there is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his messenger' and the center banner says 'long live holy Quran'. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq) (AP)

Nine dead in Afghan protests over Quran burning

Amir Shah

Pakistani lawyers burn a U.S. flag while rallying in reaction to a small American church's plan to burn copies of the Quran in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Khalid Tanveer) (AP)

Planned Quran burning sparks Pakistan protests

Amir Shah

2nd US sailor’s body recovered in Afghanistan

Deb Riechmann, Amir Shah

U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan calls for unity

Heidi Vogt, Amir Shah

Afghan mineral wealth estimated at $3 trillion

Deb Riechmann, Amir Shah

Taliban suicide bomb hits NATO convoy, kills 18

Amir Shah

Afghan plane crashes, 1 American on board

Amir Shah, Jamey Keaten

U.S. troops kill Afghan cleric

Kim Gamel, Amir Shah

Taliban militants attack Afghan capital

Amir Shah