Afghanistan’s first-ever female district police chief, Col. Jamila Bayaz, 50, left, talks on the phone at her office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014. Afghanistan’s first-ever female district police…
Four-year-old Czech military dog Athos who was seriously wounded in a Taliban rocket attack in Afghanistan in 2012 sits with dog handler Rostislav Bartoncik after being decorated by Czech Defence…
By MICHAEL BIESECKER FILE – In this Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2013, file photo, Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair leaves a Fort Bragg, N.C., courthouse after he deferred entering a…
Afghan officials investigate the site of a deadly suicide attack on a joint NATO-Afghan base in the Ghani Khail district of Nangarhar province, east of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 4,…
A Turkmenistan woman dressed in traditional clothes casts her ballot at polling station during parliamentary elections in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, Sunday, Dec. 15, 2013. Voters in the energy-rich Turkmenistan are casting…
By LOLITA C. BALDOR U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, speaks during a meeting with Afghan military leaders in Kandahar, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. Hagel spoke with U.S.…
By LOLITA C. BALDOR U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, shakes hands with Afghan Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimi, left, during a meeting at the International Security Assistance Force Headquarters…
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani arrives to Saadabad palace for a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. Karzai arrived in Tehran for a one-day…
