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Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Tens of thousands of Afghan allies still waiting for U.S. rescue a year after Taliban takeover

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on the one year anniversary of the U.S Afghanistan withdrawal by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s Afghanistan disaster, one year later

By Rep. Don Bacon

Illustration on Biden and Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s legacy of failure in Afghanistan

By Brett D. Schaefer

Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy 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)

Afghanistan burns and Biden turns blind eyes

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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)

Biden ‘marks’ anniversary of Taliban takeover with silence, vacation

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A Taliban fighter mans his weapon during celebrations one year after the Taliban seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy 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)

Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal one year later

By Keith Kellogg

Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy 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)

Biden, Trump trade blame on anniversary of Afghanistan collapse

By Joseph Clark and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2021, file photo, Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. On the eve of the anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan's former president on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, defended what he said was a split-second decision to flee, saying he wanted to avoid the humiliation of surrender to the insurgents. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi, File)

Afghanistan marks 1 year since Taliban seizure as woes mount

By Rahim Faiez and Ebrahim Noroozi - Associated Press

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

Afghanistan chaos: GOP report reveals new details of Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - Sima Samar, a prominent activist and physician, who has been fighting for women's rights in Afghanistan for the past 40 years, gives an interview to The Associated Press, at her house in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 6, 2021. A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan rights leader heartbroken after year of Taliban rule

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

This Aug. 9, 2020, still image taken from officer video provided by the Albuquerque Police Department shows the arrest of Muhammad Syed. Syed, the main suspect in the slaying of four Muslim men in Albuquerque has committed regular acts of violence in the six years since he fled war-ravaged Afghanistan and resettled in the United States, according to police documents and court records. (Albuquerque Police Department via AP, File)

Suspect in 4 New Mexico killings left trail of violence

By Susan Montoya Bryan, Stefanie Dazio and Julie Watson - Associated Press

Sara, a 14-year-old, an Afghan girl, sits on a grave and reads a book as she waits for customers to sell water at a cemetery, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 30, 2022. For most teenage girls in Afghanistan, it’s been a year since they set foot in a classroom. With no sign the ruling Taliban will allow them back to school, some girls and parents are trying to find ways to keep education from stalling for a generation of young women. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Afghan girls face uncertain future after 1 year of no school

By Rahim Faiez and Siddiqullah Alizai - Associated Press

Arefeh 40-year-old, an Afghan woman leaves an underground school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 30, 2022. She attends this underground school with her daughter who is not allowed to go to public school. For most teenage girls in Afghanistan, it’s been a year since they set foot in a classroom. With no sign the ruling Taliban will allow them back to school, some girls and parents are trying to find ways to keep education from stalling for a generation of young women. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Timeline of events in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover

Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard in the Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban’s Afghanistan goes back to the future one year after U.S. leaves

By Ben Wolfgang - 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, on Aug. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Shekib Rahmani) **FILE**

Lawmakers push for citizenship pathway for Afghan refugees

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters stand guard in front of the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. withdrawal in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi, File)

One year after Afghan war, Biden struggles to find footing

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

People walk past a billboard welcoming U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in Taipei, Taiwan, Aug 3, 2022. Days after Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed in Kabul, China staged large-scale military exercises and threatened to cut off contacts with the U.S. over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan. (AP Photo/Chiang Ying-ying, File)

One year after Afghanistan, spy agencies pivot toward China

By Nomaan Merchant - Associated Press

Nancy Kramer, a teacher from the Westminster Shores senior living facility, serves a plate of fruit to Hasina Sharifi, 8, of the Jawzjan province in Afghanistan on Wednesday, June 29, 2022 in St. Petersburg, Fla. Kramer, along with other residents of the senior living facility, will teach refugee children from Afghanistan how to read, write, and speak in English and other subjects such as arithmetic and science. (Angelica Edwards/Tampa Bay Times via AP)

Afghan refugees find stability in senior communities

By Christopher Spata and Tampa Bay Times Christopher Spata - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021 file photo, a U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world — even before the Taliban swept to power last August. That's according to a so-called World Happiness report released, Saturday, March 19, 2022 ahead of the U.N.-designated International Day of Happiness on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Al Qaeda leader’s death renews debate over hasty U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Ayman al-Zawahri poses for a photograph in Khost, Afghanistan. Al-Zawahri, the top al-Qaida 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/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

Al-Zawahri’s path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida

By Lee Keath - Associated Press