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FILE - In this Aug. 5, 2006, file photo, Glidemaster, driven by John Campbell, wins the Hambletonian at Meadowlands Racetrack in East Rutherford, N.J. Campbell bids farewell to the Meadowlands, making his final drives at the track that helped the Hall of Famer become harness racing's career leader in purses. The 62-year-old Campbell is scheduled to drive in five races at the Meadowlands Racetrack on Friday night, June 30, 2017. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun, File)

John Campbell goes out a winner at the Meadowlands

By TOM CANAVAN - Associated Press

Nigerian soldiers man a checkpoint in Gwoza, Nigeria, a town newly liberated from Boko Haram, on April 8, 2015. (Associated Press)

Nigeria, battling Boko Haram in north, faces new threat from ‘Niger Delta Avengers’ in south

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 16, 2015, file photo, an employee of Doctors Without Borders walks inside the charred remains of their hospital after it was hit by a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan. An investigative report on the U.S. air attack that killed more than two dozen civilians at a medical charity's hospital in northern Afghanistan last month says the crew of the attacking plane misidentified the target, believing it to be a government compound taken over by the Taliban. (Najim Rahim via AP)

U.S. commander says ‘human error’ to blame for strike on Afghan hospital

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Resolute Support Mission Commander Gen. John Campbell testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2015, before the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the Situation in Afghanistan. U.S. forces attacked a hospital in northern Afghanistan last weekend, killing at least 22 people, despite &quot;rigorous&quot; U.S. military procedures designed to avoid such mistakes, the top commander of U.S. and allied forces in Afghanistan said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Loretta Sanchez browbeats Afghan war commander

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

General John F. Campbell, commander of international forces in Afghanistan, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan) ** FILE **

Gen. John Campbell pushes back on Afghanistan sex abuse reports

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

John F. Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, says six telecommunications towers were built in Afghanistan without usage plans. (Associated Press)

Campbell-Sopko feud on public Afghan audits spills to hearing

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Army Gen. John F. Campbell will explain to lawmakers why he tried to conceal from taxpayers how money is being spent on bolstering Afghanistan's nascent security forces and then reversed himself. (Associated Press)

John Campbell to explain Afghan troop information concealment

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Afghan security forces attend a ceremony in Laghman province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, in this Sunday, Jan. 11, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) ** FILE **

Top military brass classifies amount of U.S. tax dollars spent on Afghan security

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

John F. Sopko, special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, says six telecommunications towers were built in Afghanistan without usage plans. (Associated Press)

Top commander moves to classify data used to track Afghan spending

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

President Obama praised the courage of the U.S. Armed Forces as he called an end to combat operations in Afghanistan, thereby closing America's longest war. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) — FILE

Obama marks end of Afghan mission as ‘milestone’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Gen. John Campbell, center, cases the ISAF flag during a ceremony at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 28, 2014. The United States and NATO formally ended their war in Afghanistan on Sunday with the ceremony at their military headquarters in Kabul as the insurgency they fought for 13 years remains as ferocious and deadly as at any time since the 2001 invasion that unseated the Taliban regime following the Sept. 11 attacks. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

U.S., NATO mark end of 13-year war in Afghanistan

By LYNNE O'DONNELL - Associated Press

U.S. soldiers investigate the scene of an suicide attack in the Torkham, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on June 19. Afghan officials say three Taliban suicide bombers targeted NATO fuel trucks at the border with Pakistan, setting off a gunbattle with police guards. (Associated Press)

Taliban adopts Islamic State terror tactics as U.S. troops exit Afghanistan

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Outgoing commander of ISAF, U.S. Gen. Joseph Dunford, first left, and incoming U.S. Army Commander for International Security Assistance Forces (ISAF), Gen. John F. Campbell, first right, salute during a change of command ceremony at the ISAF Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. ISAF is a NATO-led security mission in Afghanistan that was established by the United Nations Security Council in 2001. It will end its mission at the end of 2014. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini)

US commander: Taliban will test Afghans in 2015

By LOLITA C. BALDOR - Associated Press

American soldiers of the 2-502 Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, participate in a memorial service for an Afghan Army officer from a partner unit who was killed in an insurgent ambush a day earlier, at Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad, in Zhari district, Kandahar province, southern Afghanistan, Friday Aug. 27, 2010. American soldiers, and their Afghan partners in Zhari, operate in a district which as the birthplace of the Taliban movement holds many well-armed insurgents who blend in with an organized support network providing explosives and safe haven. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

Obama nominates Army Gen. John Campbell to head Afghanistan exit

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

First lady Michelle Obama and Sen. Mary Landrieu, left, D-La., meet with spouses of Veterans at the National World War II Museum in New Orleans, Saturday, May 10, 2014. The group shared their first-hand accounts of the transition of families from active duty military to veteran status. (AP Photo/NOLA.com The Times-Picayune, Brett Duke)

Michelle Obama’s pleas to help kidnapped Nigerians useless without more access

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Boko Haram has destroyed hundreds of vehicles during a terror spree in Bama, Nigeria. The Islamic extremists in Nigeria's northeast also killed 115 people and razed more than 1,500 buildings. (Associated Press)

Spread of brutal Nigerian terrorist group Boko Haram alarms U.S.

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** California Republican John Campbell. (Associated Press)

GOP Rep: Dem-supporting company colludes with Calif. city government, rips off taxpayers

By Lachlan Markay The Washington Free Beacon

Poker partisans up ante with a protest

By Clare Courchane - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2001 file picture, an Afghan northern alliance Mujahed looks at a plume of smoke rising from the Taliban village of Khanaqa in the Parwan province, from his position at the Mahmood Raqy frontline in the Kapisa province, 55 kilometers (30 miles) from the Afghan capital Kabul, after an aircraft released it's load of bombs as part of the U.S. attempt to help the northern alliance to advance toward the capital and other key areas. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro, File)

EDITORIAL: Advantage: Taliban

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times