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An injured man is transported to a hospital after a bombing in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. A series of explosions shook Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Taliban said, including a blast inside a mosque in the capital of Kabul that killed at least five worshippers and three bombings of minivans in the country's north that killed nine passengers. (AP Photo/Masih Paeiz)

Blast in Kabul mosque, ISIS bombs in north Afghanistan kill 14

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Nazia 30, who has lost four children due to severe malnutrition, holds her malnourished baby in a hospital in Parwan province north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 19, 2022. Some 1.1 million Afghan children under the age of five will face malnutrition by the end of the year. , as hospitals wards are already packed with sick children . (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

1.1 million Afghan children could face severe malnutrition

By Rahim Faiez and Lee Keath - Associated Press

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Acting Deputy Prime Minister of the Afghan Taliban's caretaker government, speaks during a document signing ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The Taliban said Tuesday that they've signed a deal allowing Abu Dhabi-based GAAC Solutions to manage the airports in Herat, Kabul and Kandahar. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban say deal signed with UAE firm to manage airports

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Basira Joya, 20, presenter of the news program sits during recording at the Zan TV station (women's TV) in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 30, 2017. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers ordered all female presenters on TV channels to cover their faces on air, the country's biggest media outlet said Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghan Taliban order women TV anchors to cover their faces

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This image from a video released by the Department of Defense shows U.S. Marines at Abbey Gate before a suicide bomber struck outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul Afghanistan. A new report says decisions by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan were the key factors in the collapse of that nation's military, leading to the Taliban takeover last year. (Department of Defense via AP, File)

Watchdog: U.S. pullout ‘most important factor’ in Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Hasibullah Hasrat, 29, is interviewed at his apartment, in Hyattsville, Md., Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Afghans still adjusting to U.S.: New life, new struggles

By Ben Fox, Jacquelyn Martin and Julie Watson - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard as two women enter the government passport office, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 27, 2022. .Afghanistan's Taliban leadership has ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public. The decree Saturday, May 7, evoked similar restrictions on women during the Taliban's previous hard-line rule between 1996 and 2001. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Norway slams Afghan Taliban edict demanding women cover up

By Jan M. Olsen - Associated Press

Illustration on the perils of military welfare by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Ukraine versus Afghanistan: The perils of military welfare

By Erik Gartzke

Burqa-clad women walk on Nadir Khan hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan on March 16, 2017. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday, May 7, 2022 ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public, a sharp hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community. (AP Photo)

Afghanistan’s Taliban order women to cover up head to toe

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President Joe Biden speaks at United Performance Metals in Hamilton, Ohio, Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Biden repeats debunked boast that he’s been to Iraq, Afghanistan more than 50 times

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Illustration on the Taliban threat by Linas Garsys/The Washington times

Taliban-ruled Kabul, once again, a threat U.S. dare not ignore

By Daniel N. Hoffman

A wounded man receives treatment in a hospital, after a bombing in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Thursday, April 28, 2022. Two explosions, within minutes of each other, killed at least nine people and wounded 13 in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, a spokesman for a Taliban-appointed police chief said. (AP Photo)

IS claims bombing targeting Shiites in north Afghanistan

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A wounded man receives treatment in a hospital, after a bombing at a mosque in the town of Imam Saheb, in Kunduz Province in north of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 22, 2022. A Taliban official says a bombing at a mosque and religious school in northern Afghanistan on Friday killed at least 33 people, including students of a religious school. (AP Photo/Abdullah Sahil)

Militants in Afghanistan strike Pakistan army post, kill 3

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - This frame grab image from video, shows a Taliban fighter standing guard outside the site of a bomb explosion inside a mosque, in Mazar-e-Sharif province, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 21, 2022. A deadly Islamic State affiliate on Friday, April 22, 2022, claimed a series of bombings a day earlier that targeted Afghanistan’s minority Shiite Muslims, while Pakistan issued a warning of IS threats in its eastern Punjab province. (AP Photo, File)

Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33, Taliban say

By Kathy Gannon and Mohammad Shaob Amin - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Explosion in north Afghanistan kills at least 10, injures 40

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Afghanistan Hunger Catastrophe Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Can anything be done about the looming catastrophe in Afghanistan?

By Ron MacCammon

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. An Afghan police spokesman says explosions targeting educational institutions in Kabul have killed at least six civilians and injured over 10 others. Khalid Zadran said Tuesday the blasts occurred in the mostly-Shiite Muslim area in the west of Afghanistan's capital. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Blasts near Kabul schools kill at least 6 civilians, hurt 17

By Mohammad Shoaib Amin - Associated Press

Wolayat Khan Samadzoi watches through the open balcony door of his apartment for the sliver of new moon to appear in the cloudless sky, where the sun had set beyond a desert mountain, in Las Cruces, N.M., Saturday, April 2, 2022. Samadzoi and thousands of other Afghans evacuated to the United States as the Taliban regained power last summer are celebrating their first Muslim holy month of Ramadan here – grateful to be safe, but agonizing over their families back home under the repressive Taliban regime. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

Afghan evacuees mark first U.S. Ramadan with gratitude, agony

By Giovaana Dell'Orto and Mariam Fam - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, poses for photos with Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of the Afghan Taliban's caretaker government, in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 24, 2022. Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, March 31, 2022 issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country's Taliban leaders. (Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Xi strongly backs Afghanistan at regional conference

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, stands next to Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, acting deputy prime minister of the Afghan Taliban's caretaker government, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 24, 2022. China's ambitions to play a major hand in Afghan stability and economic development under the Taliban, while boosting its own regional stature, will be on display at a pair of multinational meetings it is hosting from Wednesday. (Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua via AP, File)

China’s Afghan ambitions on show at multinational meetings

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