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Illegal Afghan Aliens and fast-tracking citizenship Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why are lawmakers trying to fast-track citizenship for Afghans we can’t properly vet?

By Dan Stein

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force aircrew, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, assist qualified evacuees boarding a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Afghanistan chaos: GOP report reveals new details of Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Arefeh 40-year-old, an Afghan woman leaves an underground school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 30, 2022. She attends this underground school with her daughter who is not allowed to go to public school. For most teenage girls in Afghanistan, it’s been a year since they set foot in a classroom. With no sign the ruling Taliban will allow them back to school, some girls and parents are trying to find ways to keep education from stalling for a generation of young women. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Timeline of events in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover

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A Taliban fighter stands guard in the Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban’s Afghanistan goes back to the future one year after U.S. leaves

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters stand guard in front of the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. withdrawal in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi, File)

One year after Afghan war, Biden struggles to find footing

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021 file photo, a U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world — even before the Taliban swept to power last August. That's according to a so-called World Happiness report released, Saturday, March 19, 2022 ahead of the U.N.-designated International Day of Happiness on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Al Qaeda leader’s death renews debate over hasty U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Afghan women wait to receive cash at a money distribution point organized by the World Food Program, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights, said Amnesty International in a new report Wednesday, July 27, 2022. The London-based watchdog criticized Taliban authorities saying that since the Taliban took control of the country in August 2021, they have violated women’s and girls’ rights to education, work and free movement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Amnesty: Taliban crackdown on rights is ‘suffocating’ women

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghanistan quake kills 1,000 people, deadliest in decades

By Fazel Rahman Faizi - 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

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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

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

Burqa-clad women walk on Nadir Khan hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan on March 16, 2017. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday, May 7, 2022 ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public, a sharp hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community. (AP Photo)

Afghanistan’s Taliban order women to cover up head to toe

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A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Explosion in north Afghanistan kills at least 10, injures 40

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A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. An Afghan police spokesman says explosions targeting educational institutions in Kabul have killed at least six civilians and injured over 10 others. Khalid Zadran said Tuesday the blasts occurred in the mostly-Shiite Muslim area in the west of Afghanistan's capital. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Blasts near Kabul schools kill at least 6 civilians, hurt 17

By Mohammad Shoaib Amin - Associated Press

Afghan girls participate in a lesson at Tajrobawai Girls High School in Herat, Afghanistan, on Nov. 25, 2021. In a surprise decision the hardline leadership of Afghanistan's new rulers has decided against opening educational institutions to girls beyond Grade six, a Taliban official said Wednesday, March 23, 2022, on the first day of Afghanistan's new school year. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Taliban cancels girls’ higher education despite pledges

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - Afghan girls students attend school classes in a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Schools for all students will open this week, Afghanistan's Taliban-run Education Ministry announced Monday, March 21, 2022 the clearest sign yet that girls will be back in school. Girls have been denied education beyond Grade 6 since the Taliban swept back to power in August 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Taliban announcement a clear sign girls returning to school

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

An Afghan boy flies a kite on hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Stranded by U.S., Afghan allies wonder if helping was a ‘mistake’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, evacuees wait to board a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30. 2021. (Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via AP) ** FILE **

GOP presses Biden administration on Afghan evacuees amid new terrorism concerns

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Afghan refugee girls watch a soccer game from a distance near the Village at the Fort McCoy U.S. Army base on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Fort McCoy, Wis. The fort is one of eight military installations across the country that are temporarily housing the tens of thousands of Afghans who were forced to flee their homeland in August after the U.S. withdrew its forces from Afghanistan and the Taliban took control. (Barbara Davidson/Pool Photo via AP)

State Department nixed interviews for Afghan allies seeking evacuation

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Afghanistan's former President Hamid Karzai, speaks during a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. Karzai called a White House order freeing $3.5 billion in Afghan assets for America's 9/11 families &quot;an atrocity against the Afghan people.&quot; He also sought the help of Americans, and in particular the families of the thousands killed on 9/11, to press the White House to rescind last week's order which he said was both &quot;unjust and unfair.&quot; (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Ex-Afghan president: Biden order on frozen funds an atrocity

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press