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The criminal complaint, filed by the Justice Department, against Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, of Oklahoma City is photographed Tuesday, Oct. 8, after the FBI arrested the man who officials say was inspired by the Islamic State militant organization and was plotting an Election Day attack targeting large crowds in the U.S. (AP Photo/Jon Elswick)

Feds struggle to explain how Afghan terror suspect got into U.S. to plan Election Day shootings

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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

State Department’s secret report blamed both Trump and Biden for fueling Afghanistan chaos

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A boy looks as an Afghan fighter rides in the back of a vehicle during a police patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. The Taliban are promising a return of some of their harsh punishments that made them notorious. That has many Afghans afraid, but some also say they are giving the Taliban a chance if it means greater stability and fewer corrupt officials reaching into their pockets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

U.N.: 100 ex-Afghan officials, security forces killed since Taliban takeover

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

In this July 28, 2021, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, left, and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi pose for a photo during their meeting in Tianjin, China. (Li Ran/Xinhua via AP, File) **FILE**

China’s expectations from a new Afghan government

By Jianli Yang

Illustration on China and Russia mineral exploitation in Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

No U.S. capital should fund China and Russia’s Afghanistan exploits

By Michael Stumo

Smoke rises from explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. The explosion went off outside Kabul’s airport, where thousands of people have flocked as they try to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Officials offered no casualty count, but a witness said several people appeared to have been killed or wounded Thursday. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

Biden condemns terrorist attacks in Kabul, vows to ‘hunt down’ those who killed 13 U.S. troops

By Ben Wolfgang and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 19, 2021, photo, Taliban fighters display their flag on patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

IMF to withhold $460M in funds from Afghanistan after Taliban takeover

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A porter pushes a wheelbarrow carrying an elderly Afghan woman with her family as they enter into Pakistan from Afghanistan at a border crossing, in Chaman, Pakistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. Chaman, is a key border crossing between Pakistan and Afghanistan, normally thousands of Afghans and Pakistanis cross daily and a steady stream of trucks passes through, taking goods to Afghanistan. (AP Photo)

Biden snared in a diplomatic dilemma over Afghanistan’s humanitarian crisis

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - This Tuesday, March 8, 2016 file photo shows Khalida Popal, the former Afghanistan national women's team captain, in Copenhagen. The footballers in the Afghanistan women’s team Popal helped to establish now fear for their lives after the Taliban swept to regain control of the country after two decades. (AP Photos/Jan M. Olsen, File)

Afghanistan’s female footballers make tearful calls for help

By Rob Harris - Associated Press

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane, some climbing on the plane, as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug.16. 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac at the airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto the American military jet as it took off and plunged to death. (Verified UGC via AP)

‘Promises are being broken’ as U.S. strands Afghan allies

By Stephen Dinan and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday, further tightening their grip on the country as panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Ghani flees Afghanistan, U.S. diplomats burn documents as Taliban enter Kabul

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Farah, capital of Farah province southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Mohammad Asif Khan)

Taliban take 10th Afghan provincial capital, squeezing Kabul

By Tameem Akhgar, Rahim Faiez and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Farah, capital of Farah province southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Mohammad Asif Khan)

Taliban continues their blitz across Afghanistan

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

An Afghan army soldier stands guard on the outskirts of Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Mirwais Bezhan)

‘Complete, utter failure’: Frustration with Afghan army boils over as Taliban take 2 more provinces

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A Pakistani paramedic treats men, who were injured in a fighting between Afghan security forces and Taliban in Spin Boldak border area, at a hospital in Chaman, Pakistan, Friday, July 16, 2021. Afghan government security forces were battling to retake the southeastern Spin Boldak border crossing with neighbor Pakistan Friday, according to Afghanistan's deputy defense ministry spokesman Fawad Awan. (AP Photo/Tariq Achakzai)

Reuters photographer killed as Afghan forces fight Taliban

By Kathy Gannon

The U.S. Embassy dominates the skyline in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 3, 2021. As America’s “forever war” rapidly winds down, the U.S. Embassy and other diplomatic missions in Kabul are looking at a worsening security situation and how to respond. There is still no deal on securing operations at Kabul’s international airport, a prerequisite for a continued presence of foreign diplomats and aid workers in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

After troops exit, safety of US Embassy in Kabul top concern

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

In this Nov. 30, 2017, file photo, American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan. With American troops withdrawing from Afghanistan, pressure has been mounting for the Biden administration to plan a military evacuation of Afghans who supported U.S. military operations during two decades of war in their country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

‘Last hurrah’: Biden to meet embattled Afghan leaders amid Taliban gains

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Sultana Karimi applies makeup on a customer at Ms. Sadat’s Beauty Salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Kabul's young working women say they fear their dreams may be short-lived if the Taliban return to Kabul, even if peacefully as part of a new government. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Young women, grown up without Taliban, dread their return

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Security personnel inspect the site of a sticky bomb attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 15, 2021. Sticky bombs slapped onto cars trapped in Kabul’s chaotic traffic are the newest weapons terrorizing Afghans in the increasingly lawless nation. The surge of bombings comes as Washington searches for a responsible exit from decades of war. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Sticky bombs latest weapon in Afghanistan’s arsenal of war

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

The Case for Afghanistan Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

The fall of Bala Murghab and Afghanistan’s future

By Gary Anderson