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About 350,000 people have the same names on a list of 60,000 terrorists, so many residents of Mosul, Iraq, avoid passing checkpoints out of fear that their names will appear on such lists in error. (Associated Press/File)

Mosul, Iraq, corruption rises after ISIS fall

By Mahmoud Al-Najjar and Gilgamesh Nabeel - Special to The Washington Times

**FILE** This undated photo shows Nidal Hasan, the Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage. (Associated Press/Bell County Sheriff's Department via The Temple Daily Telegram)

Fort Hood shooting suspect Maj. Nidal Hasan: I was protecting the Taliban

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed attends a ceremony in Islamabad, Pakistan, in April 2011. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

U.S. offers bounties for terrorist leaders in Pakistan

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Taliban say hackers broke into phone, website

By Patrick Quinn - Associated Press

** FILE ** Local residents stand outside a shop with graffiti reading "leader of Muslims Mullah Mohammad Omar," on Sunday, May 8, 2011, in Pashin, 100 kilometers south of Quetta, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Afghan TV reports Taliban leader Omar killed in Pakistan

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Local residents stand outside a shop with graffiti reading "leader of Muslims Mullah Mohammad Omar," on Sunday, May 8, 2011, in Pashin, 100 kilometers south of Quetta, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Taliban: Mullah Omar alive in Afghanistan

By Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Taliban mentor dies in captivity in Pakistan

By Asif Shahzad - Associated Press

In this photo taken on April 12, 2010, Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, and Kunduz Gov. Mohammed Omar attend a meeting with elders in Kunduz, Afghanistan. Mr. Omar was among many killed in a bomb blast at a mosque in Takhar province Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Provincial governor among 20 killed in Afghan mosque blast

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Poor security forces Afghan poll closures

Associated Press

A U.S. soldier from the 101st Airborne Division reads as a sandstorm blows around him at Forward Operating Base Howz-e-Madad in southern Afghanistan's Zhari district on Tuesday. U.S. and Afghan troops plan an assault there, the birthplace of the Taliban, next month. (Associated Press)

Next U.S. target: Taliban’s birthplace

By Denis D. Gray - Associated Press

People carry an injured person from the spot of bombing in Yakaghund in Pakistani tribal area of Mohmand on Friday, July 9, 2010. Two suicide bombers, at least one of them on a motorcycle, struck outside a government office Friday in a tribal region where Pakistan's army has fought the Taliban, killing scores of people and left many injured, officials said. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

EDITORIAL: A kinder, gentler Taliban

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

Mullen: Omar could be part of Afghan settlement

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times