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Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, (third from the left) ranking Republican on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, speaks on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, June 28, 2022. (Image courtesy of Rep. Michael McCaul's office)

McCaul backs IG in clash with State Department over Afghan probe

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this file photo, Afghans receive aid at a camp after an earthquake in Gayan district in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 26, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi) **FILE**

U.S. rushing assistance to Afghanistan after quake kills at least 1,000

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Afghan girl carries a donated matrace after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Friday, June 24, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi

Destruction everywhere, help scarce after Afghanistan quake

By Ebrahim Noroozi and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghans stand by the bodies of relatives killed in an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi)

Afghanistan earthquake victims face struggles getting aid

By Glenn Gamboa - Associated Press

A man stands among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi)

Aftershock in Afghanistan as quake toll rises to 1,150 dead

By Ebrahim Noroozi - Associated Press

Afghans stand among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi)

Afghans bury dead, dig for survivors after quake kills 1,000

By Ebrahim Noroozi - Associated Press

In this photo released by a state-run news agency Bakhtar, Afghans look at destruction caused by an earthquake in the province of Paktika, eastern Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (Bakhtar News Agency via AP)

Afghanistan quake kills 1,000 people, deadliest in decades

By Fazel Rahman Faizi - Associated Press

In this June 10, 2014, file photo, John F. Sopko, Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington before the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa hearing on Examining U.S. Reconstruction Efforts in Afghanistan. With Washington set to send billions of dollars in fresh aid to Afghanistan despite the military drawdown, Sopko says its not too late to address the fraud and mismanagement that has bedeviled the 14-year effort to rebuild the country. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) **FILE**

Afghan IG claims State Department stonewalled over probe into Kabul government collapse

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Afghan militiamen join Afghan defense and security forces during a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 23, 2021. A new report says decisions by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan were the key factors in the collapse of that nation's military, leading to the Taliban takeover last year. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

UN: Taliban faces threat from Islamic State, new resistance

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

This image provided by Muhammad Arif Sarwari, shows Afghans who fled the Taliban takeover of their country staging a protest at Camp Bondsteel in Kosovo, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. The camp is used to house people who have not been allowed to enter the U.S. because of security concerns. Some of the Afghans have been waiting for months at the base while authorities try to resolve their fate, which officials say may involve sending them to another country for resettlement. (Muhammad Arif Sarwari via AP)

Security concerns leave Afghan evacuees stuck in Balkan camp

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

Taliban eradicate a poppy field in Washir, district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country's massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

Afghan Taliban launch campaign to eradicate poppy crop

By Abdul Khaliq - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations distributed by a South Koren humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Afghanistan is expected 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will face malnutrition in the country by the end of this year, as hospitals wards are packed with sick children for sever hunger and malnutrition. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Indian officials hold 1st talks with Taliban in Afghanistan

Associated Press

Illustration in remembrance of the last 13 fallen soldiers in Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Honoring the 13 fallen heroes in Afghanistan

By Scott Walker

United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN official expresses concern on rights in Afghanistan

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Nazia 30, who has lost four children due to severe malnutrition, holds her malnourished baby in a hospital in Parwan province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Some 1.1 million Afghan children under the age of five will face malnutrition by the end of the year. , as hospitals wards are already packed with sick children . (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

1.1 million Afghan children could face severe malnutrition

By Rahim Faiez and Lee Keath - Associated Press

An injured man is transported to a hospital after a bombing in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. A series of explosions shook Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Taliban said, including a blast inside a mosque in the capital of Kabul that killed at least five worshippers and three bombings of minivans in the country's north that killed nine passengers. (AP Photo/Masih Paeiz)

Blast in Kabul mosque, ISIS bombs in north Afghanistan kill 14

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Acting Deputy Prime Minister of the Afghan Taliban's caretaker government, speaks during a document signing ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The Taliban said Tuesday that they've signed a deal allowing Abu Dhabi-based GAAC Solutions to manage the airports in Herat, Kabul and Kandahar. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban say deal signed with UAE firm to manage airports

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Basira Joya, 20, presenter of the news program sits during recording at the Zan TV station (women's TV) in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 30, 2017. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers ordered all female presenters on TV channels to cover their faces on air, the country's biggest media outlet said Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghan Taliban order women TV anchors to cover their faces

Associated Press

This image from a video released by the Department of Defense shows U.S. Marines at Abbey Gate before a suicide bomber struck outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul Afghanistan. A new report says decisions by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan were the key factors in the collapse of that nation's military, leading to the Taliban takeover last year. (Department of Defense via AP, File)

Watchdog: U.S. pullout ‘most important factor’ in Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Hasibullah Hasrat, 29, is interviewed at his apartment, in Hyattsville, Md., Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Afghans still adjusting to U.S.: New life, new struggles

By Ben Fox, Jacquelyn Martin and Julie Watson - Associated Press