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A 19-year old Hazara Afghan girl sits and cries on the bench she was sitting on, during Friday's suicide bomber attack on a Hazara education center, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Afghanistan's Hazaras, who are mostly Shiite Muslims, have been the target of a brutal campaign of violence for the past several years. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Women protesters demand more security after Afghan bombing

By Siddiqullah Alizai - Associated Press

J.R. Majewski, Republican candidate for U.S. Representative for Ohio's 9th Congressional District, speaks at a campaign rally in Youngstown, Ohio, Sept. 17, 2022. Majewski has centered his campaign for a competitive Ohio congressional seat around his biography as an Air Force veteran. But one of the big questions that has surfaced is why Majewski was told that he could not reenlist in the Air Force after his initial four years were up. (AP Photo/Tom E. Puskar, File)

Records contradict Majewski’s account of military punishment

By Brian Slodysko and James Laporta - Associated Press

In this Jan. 31, 2010, file photo, an unmanned U.S. Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field, southern Afghanistan, on a moon-lit night. The White House has a released a version of President Barack Obama’s three-year-old directive on the use of lethal force against terrorists overseas, laying out what it says are safeguards to minimize civilian deaths and errant strikes while preserving the capability to take quick action with drone attacks and other means.(AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)

12 civilians killed in U.S. military operations in 2021, new Pentagon report says

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Bashir Noorzai, a senior Taliban detainee held at Guantanamo, speaks during his release ceremony, at the Intercontinental Hotel, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and member of the Taliban, told reporters in Kabul on Monday that he spent 17 years and six months in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and that he was the last Taliban prisoner there. Taliban-appointed Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said Monday that the released American was Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran and civilian contractor kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban detainee freed from Guantanamo, claims exchanged for American prisoner

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

A classroom of a Hazara Shiite school sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 31, 2022. Taliban authorities Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, shut down girls schools above the sixth grade in eastern Afghanistan's Paktia province that had been briefly opened after a recommendation by tribal elders and school principals, according to witnesses and social media posts. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools ‘shameful’

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

President Joe Biden salutes as he boards Air Force One at Delaware Air National Guard Base in New Castle, Del., Sunday, Sep. 11, 2022. Biden will mark the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at the Pentagon. Sunday's somber commemoration comes a little more than a year after the Democratic president ended the war in Afghanistan launched by the U.S. and its allies in response to the terror attacks. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Biden to honor 9/11 victims as shadow of Afghanistan War looms

By Colleen Long and Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

President Joe Biden participates in a wreath laying ceremony while visiting the Pentagon in Washington, Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, to honor and remember the victims of the September 11th terror attack. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden stresses continued threat to democracy in 9/11 anniversary remarks

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Illustration on al Queda and Iran by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Are al Qaeda and Iran really at odds?

By Jonathan Schanzer

Taliban fighters and supporters celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) ** FILE **

Suicide attack at Russia embassy in Kabul kills 2 diplomats

Associated Press

As seen on a computer screen from a DVD prepared by Al-Sahab production, Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri speaks in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 20, 2006. Al-Zawahiri, the top Al Qaeda leader, was killed by the U.S. over the weekend in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak about the operation on Monday night, Aug. 1, 2022, from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)

Over-the-horizon U.S. strike on terrorist raises fears of what’s being missed

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations distributed by a Chinese humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 30, 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, File)

Afghan medic says at least 18 killed, 21 wounded in mosque blast

Associated Press

Taliban fighters chant slogans during a celebration marking the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

History As It Happens: Taliban redux

By Martin Di Caro

** FILE ** This video frame grab image provided by IntelCenter, a private terrorism analysis company, and taken from a video released on Friday Nov. 28, 2008, by the media arm of al QaEda, As-Sahab, shows Ayman al Zawahiri speaking in a video entitled "al-Azhar," or "The Lion's Den." Al Qaeda's No. 2 leader called on Americans to embrace Islam to overcome the financial meltdown, which he said was a consequence of the Sept. 11 attacks and militant strikes in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/IntelCenter)

History As It Happens: Ayman al-Zawahiri and the future of al Qaeda

By Martin Di Caro

Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives the keynote address at U.S. Rep. Jeff Duncan's Faith & Freedom BBQ fundraiser on Monday, Aug. 22, 2022, in Anderson, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Pompeo warns U.S. less safe one year after Afghanistan withdrawal

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., director, Joint Staff, speaks as he shows photographs from before and after the U.S.-led airstrikes against Syria during a media availability at the Pentagon, Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Former top general in the Middle East says Biden told that Afghanistan would fall if U.S. pulled out

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman James Inhofe, R-Okla., speaks to reporters following a GOP policy meeting on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, June 30, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Austin, Inhofe mark anniversary of Afghan airport attack that killed 13 U.S. troops

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A carry team loads a transfer case with the remain of Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio, into a transfer vehicle during a casualty return at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, for the 13 service members killed in the suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden marks one-year anniversary of suicide attack that killed 13 U.S. troops amid Afghan withdrawal

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Afghanistan and bringing back a terrorist state illustration by The Washington Times

Afghanistan stalemate beats betraying an ally, losing a war and bringing back a terrorist state

By Don Ritter

A woman passes a pile of bricks that will be used for the construction of a mosque in the Mirbacha Kot hospital, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. The construction of the mosque is the new manager's top priority as health care workers continue to work without salaries, without medicine and with frequent power cuts in Afghanistan's crumbling economy. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Religious freedom ‘does not exist’ in Afghanistan one year after Taliban takeover, advocates say

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Biden's Abandonment of Afghanistan Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Impact of Biden’s capitulation to the Taliban

By Clifford D. May