Afghanistan

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Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell is part of a delegation that traveled to Kuwait and Afghanistan this week to visit troops (Photo courtesy of the Department of Defense)

** FILE ** Afghan security forces officers, with NATO compound workers, investigate the gate to a NATO compound following a suicide car bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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U.S. soldiers with Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 41st Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, bow their heads as Maj. Daniel Finkhousen, the brigade's chaplain, offers an invocation on Christmas Day at Forward Operating Base Al Masaak in Afghanistan's Zabul province on Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (U.S. Army/1st Lt. Vanessa Macekura)

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** FILE ** U.S. soldiers pray before eating a Thanksgiving meal at a dining hall at the U.S.-led coalition base in Kabul, Afghanistan (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Afghan security forces officers, with NATO compound workers, investigate the gate to a NATO compound following a suicide car bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

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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)

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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)