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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

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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Batool Haidari, 37, talks during an interview with the Associated Press on a train taking her from her home on the outskirts of Rome, to the capital's center, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Batool Haidari was a prominent professor of sexology at a university in Kabul before last year’s Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. She used to lecture mixed classes of male and female students and look after her patients struggling with their gender identity. That comfortable life came to an abrupt halt on Aug. 15, 2021, when the ultra-religious group swept back into power. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Afghan academic rebuilds life in Italy, dreams of returning

By Paolo Santalucia - Associated Press

Schooling for an education in Afghanistan Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Education in Afghanistan: America’s transcendent legacy or just another regret?

By Ron MacCammon

The Olympic rings are set up at Trocadero plaza that overlooks the Eiffel Tower, a day after the official announcement that the 2024 Summer Olympic Games will be in the French capital, in Paris, Thursday, Sept. 14, 2017. The budget for the 2024 Paris Olympics is expected to go up by 10%, in part because of high inflation, organizers said Tuesday, Nov.22, 2022. The organizing committee, known as COJO, had an original budget of around 4 billion euros ($4.1 billion) but will present a revised figure at a board meeting next month that is expected to reach 4.4 billion euros ($4.5 billion). (AP Photo//Michel Euler, File)

IOC warns Afghanistan over women’s sports and Olympics

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Investigators collect evidence at the site of a suicide bombing on the outskirt of Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a truck carrying police officers on their way to protect polio workers outside Quetta, killing few people and wounding more than 20 others, mostly policemen, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistan demands Taliban prevent attacks, after suicide bomb

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people wait in line to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 25, 2022. A senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross says that Afghans will struggle for their lives as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule and faces plummeting humanitarian conditions. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban: 10 killed in bombing of Afghan religious school

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President Biden speaks with members of the press before leaving Washington for a weekend at his home in Delaware. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

House Republicans see ‘obstruction’ in Biden administration’s freeze-out of Afghan watchdog

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A girl holds a chicken in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 28, 2022. A senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross says that Afghans will struggle for their lives as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule and faces plummeting humanitarian conditions. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Afghans will struggle for their lives this winter: Red Cross

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

New Afghan Army special forces members attend their graduation ceremony after a three-month training program at the Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 17, 2021. Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal last year are now being recruited by the Russian military to fight in Ukraine, three former Afghan generals told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghan commandos are being exploited by Russia, Iran

By Daniel Elkins

“So Help Me God,” by former Vice President Mike Pence, being published Nov. 15. (Simon & Schuster, 560 pages)

Pence book excerpt: Trump gave voice to Americans fed up with decades of government mismanagement

By Mike Pence

In this Aug. 26, 2021, image provided by the U.S. Army, an Afghan man hands his child to a British Paratrooper assigned to 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment while a member of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conducts security at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (U.S. Army via AP) **FILE**

Failures of Afghanistan pullout fade for voters

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

New Afghan Army special forces members attend their graduation ceremony after a three-month training program at the Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 17, 2021. Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal last year are now being recruited by the Russian military to fight in Ukraine, three former Afghan generals told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Russia recruiting U.S.-trained Afghan commandos, vets say

By Bernard Condon - Associated Press

Illustration on post-American Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

America said “no more” and left Afghanistan; should we return?

By Ron MacCammon

In this Aug. 16, 2021, photo, hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Verified UGC via AP) **FILE**

Buckle up Biden: House GOP plans deep-dive into botched pullout from Afghanistan

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

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)

Afghan couple accuse U.S. Marine of abducting their baby

By Martha Mendoza, Juliet Linderman and Claire Galofaro - Associated Press

Rep. Jim Jordan speaks at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio., Saturday, Sept. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar) ** FILE **

Biden officials put on notice to preserve documents ahead of expected congressional probes

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

FILE - Zabiullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban government, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 30, 2022. The Taliban said Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, that there is enough security across Afghanistan to restart major economic projects that stopped due to decades of war, despite a slew of attacks rocking the country since the group seized power a year ago. Mujahid said Wednesday that Afghanistan had the opportunity to connect with the rest of the countries in the region, highlighting China as a key part of the nation's economic development. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban say Afghanistan secure enough for big projects

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Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., who is running for reelection, speaks about prescription drug prices during a news conference on April 26, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cortez Masto faces Republican challenger Adam Laxalt in the November election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Both GOP candidates courting veterans in Nevada Senate race

By Scott Sonner - Associated Press

A team from the non-profit Project Dynamo helps Betty Reynolds onto a boat as she is rescued from Sanibel Island, Fla., Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Reynolds home was flooded when Hurricane Ian swept through the area. (AP Photo/Robert Bumsted)

By boat and jet ski, volunteers assist in Ian rescue efforts

By Robert Bumsted and Bobby Caina Calvan - Associated Press