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An F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft takes off for a night mission at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Oct. 30, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo by Val Gempis) ** FILE **

U.S. airstrikes destroy Islamic State branch, Afghanistan says

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Dec. 11, 2011, file photo, masked Pakistani Taliban militants take part in a training session in an area of Pakistan's tribal South Waziristan region along the Afghan border. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)

Taliban spokesman fired for vowing allegiance to Islamic State

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013 file photo, Pakistani Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid, center, flanked by his bodyguards, talks to reporters at an undisclosed location in Pakistani tribal area of Waziristan along Afghanistan border. The Pakistani Taliban announced Saturday that the group will observe a one-month cease-fire as part of efforts to negotiate a peace deal with the government, throwing new life into a foundering peace process. Spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said in a statement emailed to reporters that the top leadership of the militant group has instructed all of its units to comply with the cease-fire. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)

Pakistani officials hold direct talks with Taliban

Associated Press

Villagers stand near the bodies of men killed in an explosion in Sayedabad, in Afghanistan's Wardak province, southwest of Kabul on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. The explosion killed seven Afghan villagers as they tried to pull bodies of insurgents killed from the rubble of a village mosque after a night raid by NATO and Afghan troops in the country's east, officials said. Four insurgents and an Afghan soldier also were reported to have been killed. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

Afghanistan: Blast kills 7 civilians after raid

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

** FILE ** An Afghan National Army soldier wears an ammunition belt around his neck during a joint patrol with U.S. Army soldiers from Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion of the 508 Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 82nd Airborne, in the volatile Arghandab Valley outside Kandahar, Afghanistan, in July 2010. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)

U.S. and Afghan forces clash; 2 Americans, 3 Afghans dead

By Heidi Vogt and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press