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Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. The Taliban marked the first-year anniversary of their takeover after the country's western-backed government fled and the Afghan military crumbled in the face of the insurgents' advance. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban comb Kabul records to hunt down U.S. war allies

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., opens a House Committee on Oversight and Accountability hearing on the border, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Kevin Wolf) **FILE**

House GOP opens investigation of Afghanistan withdrawal

By Farnoush Amiri - 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

People visit at the site of Monday's suicide bombing after authorities finished the rescue operation, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. A suicide bombing that struck inside a mosque at a police and government compound in northwest Pakistan reflects "security lapses," current and former officials said as the death toll from the devastating blast climbed to 100 on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Peshawar, the city of flowers, becomes epicenter of violence

By Riaz Khan and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

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

Sami-ullah Safi holds photographs of his brother, Abdul Wasi Safi, as he talks about his brother's journey to the U.S. during an interview Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, in Houston. Safi's brother, who's called Wasi by his family, was an intelligence officer with the Afghan National Security Forces, providing U.S. armed forces with information for operations against terrorists, said Sami-ullah Safi. Wasi was arrested after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas in September 2022, and charged with a federal misdemeanor related to wrongly entering the country and placed in a detention center in Central Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Afghan soldier seeking U.S. asylum freed from federal custody

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

Photographs of Abdul Wasi Safi sit on a table as his brother, Sami-ullah Safi talks about his brother's journey to the U.S. during an interview Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2023, in Houston. Abdul Wasi Safi was an intelligence officer with the Afghan National Security Forces, providing U.S. armed forces with information for operations against terrorists, said Sami-ulllah Safi. Wasi, as he is called by his family, was arrested after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border near Eagle Pass, Texas in September 2022, and charged with a federal misdemeanor related to wrongly entering the country and placed in a detention center in Central Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

Afghan soldier seeks asylum after arrest at U.S.-Mexico border

By Juan A. Lozano - 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

Illustration on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Saigon 2.0: My story of rescuing Aziz from Afghanistan — without our government’s help

By Chad Robichaux

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 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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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

Britain's Prince Harry on patrol through the deserted town of Garmisir Jan. 2, 2008, close to FOB (forward operating base) Delhi, where he was posted in Helmand province Southern Afghanistan. Prince Harry alleges in a much-anticipated new memoir that his brother Prince William lashed out and physically attacked him during a furious argument over the brothers’ deteriorating relationship. The book “Spare" also included incendiary revelations about the estranged royal’s drug-taking, first sexual encounter and role in killing people during his military service in Afghanistan. (John Stillwell, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Harry’s claim he killed 25 in Afghanistan draws anger, worry

By Jill Lawless - Associated Press

In this Feb. 18, 2008 file photo, Britain's Prince Harry, sits atop a military vehicle in the Helmand province, Southern Afghanistan. Princess Diana’s little boy the devil-may-care red-haired prince with the charming smile is about to become a father. The arrival of the first child for Prince Harry and his wife Meghan will complete the transformation of Harry from troubled teen to family man, from source of concern to source of national pride. (John Stillwell, Pool Photo via AP, File)

Veterans call Prince Harry’s claim that he killed 25 Taliban fighters ‘foolish,’ ‘distasteful’

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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

Maryland Democratic gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore is seen in this Aug. 26, 2022 file photograph during a rally hosted by the Democratic National Committee in Rockville, Md. Moore faces Republican Dan Cox in the Nov. 8, 2022 general election. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Md. Gov.-elect Wes Moore: Dems should take patriotism from GOP

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

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 students stand outside the Kabul University in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Dec. 21, 2022. The United Nations' human rights chief on Tuesday Dec. 27, 2022 decried increasing restrictions on women's rights in Afghanistan, urging the country's Taliban rulers to reverse them immediately. He pointed to “terrible consequences” of a decision to bar women from working for non-governmental organizations. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Private Afghan universities risk closure after ban on women

By Riazat Butt - 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

Associated Press

Chicago police investigate on the 800 block of South Karlov Avenue, where a 16-year-old girl was among five people seriously wounded in a shooting near Daniel Webster Elementary School in the Lawndale neighborhood on the West Side, early Sunday, May 29, 2022, in Chicago. (Ashlee Rezin/Chicago Sun-Times via AP)

Young men in parts of Chicago, Philly at greater risk of death than soldiers in Iraq, Afghanistan

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times