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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

Taliban fighters walk at the frozen Qargha Lake, near Kabul, Afghanistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. The Taliban have detained two foreign journalists on assignment with the U.N. refugee agency and a number of its Afghan staff working in the country's capital, UNHCR said Friday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

UN: Foreign journalists, Afghan staff detained by Taliban

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Pakistani mother Shahana with her husband Ajoon Khan sit next to photos of their son Asfand Khan, who was killed in a 2014 assault by Pakistani Taliban militants on an army public school, during an interview with The Associated Press, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. Each year on Jan. 17 Shahana bakes a cake and invites friends to her home to sing happy birthday, even light a candle but it's a birthday without the birthday boy, she says. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Afghan Taliban turn blind eye to Pakistani militants

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Haseena Niazi, a 24-year-old from Afghanistan, poses outside her home, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, north of Boston. Niazi received a letter from the federal government denying her fiancé's humanitarian parole application earlier in the month. Her fiance, who she asked not to be named over concerns about his safety, had received threats from Taliban members for working on women's health issues at a hospital north of Kabul. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Hundreds of Afghans denied humanitarian entry into U.S.

By Philip Marcelo and Amy Taxin - Associated Press

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, the former Foreign Secretary, arrives ahead of the government's weekly Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, in London, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned many of the nation’s allies in Afghanistan and left them to the mercy of the Taliban during the fall of the capital, Kabul, because of a dysfunctional and arbitrary evacuation effort, whistleblower Raphael Marshall alleged Tuesday. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

Whistleblower: As Afghanistan fell, UK abandoned supporters

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Taliban fighters and Afghan men pray in Kamar Kalagh village near Herat, Afghanistan, Saturday , Nov. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Taliban deny targeted killings of officials linked to U.S.-backed government

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times