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Shoppers crowd at a market in Herat on December 27, 2020. (Photo by Hoshang HASHIMI / AFP)

Afghan troops abandon 200 checkpoints to Taleban
In this photo taken on September 28, 2020, former police chief of the Panjwai district, Sultan Mohammad Hakimi, poses with a gun during an interview with AFP in Panjwai. - Despite the bloodshed he has witnessed throughout his career, Hakimi has made it a personal mission to give ex-Taliban fighters, commanders and officials the chance to reintegrate into village life. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP) / TO GO WITH Afghanistan-conflict-Taliban-rehabilitation,FOCUS by Elise Blanchard and Rashid Durrani

New beginning: Afghan police team welcoming back Taleban fighters
Municipal workers clean up debris at the site of a bomb attack in Kabul on December 22, 2020. - Four doctors who worked at an Afghan prison with hundreds of Taliban inmates were among five people killed on December 22 when a bomb attached to their car exploded, police said. (Photo by Zakeria HASHIMI / AFP)

Prison doctors among five killed in bombing
Damaged cars are seen at the site of an attack in Kabul on December 20, 2020. - A car bomb targeting an Afghan lawmaker killed nine people and wounded more than a dozen in Kabul on December 20, officials said, the latest attack to rock the capital. (Photo by Zakeria HASHIMI / AFP)

Nine killed in Kabul car bomb targeting Afghan MP
Security personnel are seen after a suicide car bomber struck an army base on the outskirts of Ghazni province on November 29, 2020. - A suicide car bomber struck an army base in Afghanistan on November 29 killing at least 26 security personnel, officials said, in one of the bloodiest attacks in recent months. (Photo by STR / AFP)

Suicide bomber hits Afghan army base, kills 30 security personnel
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (L) meets with Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in the Qatari capital Doha, on November 21, 2020. - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met negotiators from the Afghan government and the Taliban in Doha, amid signs of progress in their talks as Washington speeds up its withdrawal. Pompeo's visit comes in the wake of a rocket attack which struck densely populated areas of Kabul, killing at least eight people in the latest outbreak of violence in the Afghan capital. (Photo by Patrick Semansky / POOL / AFP)

Pompeo meets Taleban, govt negotiators
(FILES) In this file photo taken on November 28, 2008, US Army soliders from 1-506 Infantry Division set out on a patrol in Paktika province, situated along the Afghan-Pakistan border. - The Pentagon on November 19, 2020 announced plans to slash troop levels in Afghanistan to its lowest levels in nearly 20 years of conflict after President Trump pledged to end a war that has killed about 2,400 US soldiers and cost the American taxpayer more than $ 1 trillion since 2001. (Photo by DAVID FURST / AFP)

Abandoned by Trump, can battered Afghans pin their hopes on Biden?
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NATO chief warns of 'high' price of hasty Afghan pullout
Robert Mardini, Director-General of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) gestures as he speaks at a press conference on his fourth and last day of visit in the country, in Kabul on November 11, 2020. (Photo by WAKIL KOHSAR / AFP)

Peace seems impossible on Afghanistan's frontlines
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DOHA: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah speaks at the 41st meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. — KUNA photos
Interior minister calls for uniting GCC security efforts
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Committee strips Kuwaiti citizenship of 1,647 individuals
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