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Taliban fighters check the site of an explosion, near the Interior Ministry, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) ** FILE **

House GOP warns of Taliban, terror groups purchasing verified blue checks on Twitter

By Mica Soellner - The Washington Times

Pakistani President Gen. Pervez Musharraf addresses the U.N. General Assembly on Nov. 10, 2001, at the United Nations headquarters in New York. An official said Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan military ruler who backed the U.S. war in Afghanistan after 9/11, has died. (AP Photo/Beth Keiser, File)

Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan martial ruler in 9/11 wars, dies

By Jon Gambrell and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 19, 2022. It was one of several deadly explosions that have targeted educational institutions in Afghanistan's capital. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) **FILE**

U.S. must weigh Taliban funds vs. Afghan misery

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mothers along with babies who suffer from malnutrition wait to receive help and check-up at a clinic that run by the WFP, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 26, 2023. A spokesman for the U.N. food agency says malnutrition rates in Afghanistan are at record highs. Aid agencies have been providing food, education, healthcare and other critical support to people, but distribution has been severely impacted by a Taliban edict banning women from working at national and international nongovernmental groups. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN food agency: Afghan malnutrition rates at record high

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

A Save the Children nutrition counselor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)

UN says Taliban divided on appeal to restore women’s rights

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

A Save the Children nutrition counselor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)

Afghan rulers urged to reverse ban on women aid workers

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Afghan girls who practice wushu, a Chinese martial art, pose for a photo in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Nov. 6, 2022. The ruling Taliban have banned women from sports as well as barring them from most schooling and many realms of work. A number of women posed for an AP photographer for portraits with the equipment of the sports they loved. Though they do not necessarily wear the burqa in regular life, they chose to hide their identities with their burqas because they fear Taliban reprisals and because some of them continue to practice their sports in secret. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Citing Taliban, Australia nixes Afghanistan cricket series

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A Save the Children nutrition counselor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)

Taliban ban on women workers hits vital aid for Afghans

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Afghan mixed martial arts fighter poses for a photo with her trophies in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. The ruling Taliban have banned women from sports as well as barring them from most schooling and many realms of work. A number of women posed for an AP photographer for portraits with the equipment of the sports they loved. Though they do not necessarily wear the burqa in regular life, they chose to hide their identities with their burqas because they fear Taliban reprisals and because some of them continue to practice their sports in secret. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Afghan women athletes barred from play, fear Taliban threats

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Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council, NRC, Jan Egeland, listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. The Taliban's "internal debates and extreme decrees" are paralyzing humanitarian work in Afghanistan, the head of a major aid agency told The Associated Press on Sunday, after he arrived on a week-long trip to talk to Taliban leaders about reversing a ban on women working for national and international nongovernmental groups. Jan Egeland, who is the secretary-general of the Norwegian Refugee Council, is the first NGO chief to have visited Afghanistan to talk to the Taliban since the ban came into effect more than two weeks. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Aid chief: Taliban decrees against women paralyzing NGO work

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

In this Nov. 3, 2012, file photo, Britain's Prince Harry, right, or just plain Capt. Wales as he is known in the British Army, races out from the VHR (very high readiness) tent to scramble his Apache with fellow pilots, during his 12-hour shift at the British-controlled flight-line in Camp Bastion southern Afghanistan. (AP Photo/John Stillwell, Pool, File)

Prince Harry’s new memoir draws anger and protests in Afghanistan

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Bullets and broken glass scatter the compound where there was a fight between Taliban fighters and the Islamic State group in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023. The Afghan Taliban have killed eight Islamic State group fighters and arrested nine others in raids against the militants' hideouts on Wednesday, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Does the U.S. bear responsibility for the Taliban’s atrocities in Afghanistan?

By Billy Hallowell

Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, N.J., on Sept. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Afghan refugees in U.S. face uncertainty as legislation stalls

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The U.S. has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions. It is the latest blow to female rights and freedoms since the Taliban seized power last year and follows sweeping restrictions on education, employment, clothing and travel. (AP Photo, File)

U.N. official, Taliban minister meet about Afghan women NGO ban

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Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The U.S. has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions. It is the latest blow to female rights and freedoms since the Taliban seized power last year and follows sweeping restrictions on education, employment, clothing and travel. (AP Photo, File)

3 NGOs suspend work in Afghanistan after Taliban bar women

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

A classroom that previously was used for girls sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The country's Taliban rulers earlier this week ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities effective immediately and until further notice. They have banned girls from middle school and high school, barred women from most fields of employment and ordered them to wear head-to-toe clothing in public. Women are also banned from parks and gyms.(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Shekib Rahmani, File)

DHS deports Afghan evacuee who sexually abused 3-year-old girl

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo)

Turkey, Saudi Arabia decry Taliban university ban for women

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Afghan students walk toward their university in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ** FILE **

Afghan women weep as Taliban fighters enforce university ban

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Arefeh 40-year-old, an Afghan woman leaves an underground school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban says women banned from universities in Afghanistan

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