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FILE - In this photograph made on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 in Mes Aynak valley, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Buddha statues are seen inside an ancient temple. The valley is the world's second-largest unexploited copper estimated to be worth nearly $1 trillion. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

With eye to China investment, Taliban now preserve Buddhas

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Afghan women chant and hold signs of protest during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 26, 2022. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were traveling without a male guardian, two Afghan airline officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Mohammed Shoaib Amin)

Officials: Taliban blocked unaccompanied women from flights

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

A Ukrainian soldier passes by a destroyed Russian artillery system 'Grad', in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, March 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

General disaster: Russian brass face heavy losses in Ukrainian fighting

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Afghan girls participate in a lesson at Tajrobawai Girls High School in Herat, Afghanistan, on Nov. 25, 2021. In a surprise decision the hardline leadership of Afghanistan's new rulers has decided against opening educational institutions to girls beyond Grade six, a Taliban official said Wednesday, March 23, 2022, on the first day of Afghanistan's new school year. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Taliban cancels girls’ higher education despite pledges

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - Afghan girls students attend school classes in a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Schools for all students will open this week, Afghanistan's Taliban-run Education Ministry announced Monday, March 21, 2022 the clearest sign yet that girls will be back in school. Girls have been denied education beyond Grade 6 since the Taliban swept back to power in August 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Taliban announcement a clear sign girls returning to school

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Afghan journalist Madina Morwat, checks her mobile at TOLO TV newsroom, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. A December survey jointly carried out by Reporters Without Borders and the Afghan Independent Journalist Association, reported &quot;a total of 231 media outlets have had to close and more than 6,400 journalists have lost their jobs&quot;, since the Taliban's August arrival in the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Taliban detain journalists over report on TV show censoring

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

President Joe Biden announces Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as his nominee to the Supreme Court at the White House in Washington on Feb. 25, 2022, left, and President Vladimir Putin speaks during a visit to the construction site of the National Space Agency at Khrunichev State Research and Production Space Centre, in Moscow, Russia, on Feb. 27, 2022. The invasion of Ukraine has rapidly returned echoes of a Cold War mentality to the United States, with a familiar foe in Russia. (AP Photo)

Under Biden, there is no ‘peace through strength’

By Scott Walker

Afghan refugee Mozhgan Entazari, right, talks about the challenge to find proper housing for her family in Southern California, during an interview at a hotel lobby in Irvine, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Entazari, 34, said it took four months to find a home. On Sunday, they will move into a five-bedroom house in Corona, about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles, that is renting for $4,000. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Afghans resettling in U.S. struggle to find affordable housing

By Matthew Barakat, Amy Taxin and Philip Marcelo and Julie Watson - Associated Press

Taliban acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, right, reviews new Afghan police recruits during a graduation ceremony at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 5, 2022. Taliban acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, a designated terrorist by the U.S., said fighters guilty of &quot;misconduct&quot; were being penalized after a string of abuse allegations, in a rare public appearance on Saturday. (AP Photo)

Taliban official wanted by U.S. makes rare public appearance

By Samya Kullab and Tameem Akhgar - Associated Press

Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., left, Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., stand with fellow lawmakers as they listen to President Joe Biden deliver his State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Washington. (Win McNamee, Pool via AP)

Lauren Boebert’s outburst jolts Biden’s State of the Union

By Farnoush Amiri - Associated Press

An Afghan boy flies a kite on hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Stranded by U.S., Afghan allies wonder if helping was a ‘mistake’

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A woman walks past the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. As the State Department strongly urges Americans to leave the country, a U.S. non-profit that aided in the evacuation of U.S. citizens and refugees from Afghanistan is preparing to assist with potential rescue operations in Ukraine. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky) **FILE**

U.S. volunteers evacuating Americans from Ukraine

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

People try to get onto buses to leave Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, Feb. 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)

Ukraine crisis shows Biden behind the curve again, critics say

By Seth McLaughlin and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden listens during an event in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Tuesday, Feb. 22, 2022, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Intel praised, Biden faulted in Ukraine crisis

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Illustration on the Biden sleeping and his debacles by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden’s recurring Afghanistan nightmare

By Jed Babbin

Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, N.J., Monday, Sept. 27, 2021. The camp currently holds approximately 9,400 Afghan refugees and has a capacity to hold up to 13,000. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Last of Afghan evacuees leave U.S. military bases amid report of botched background checks

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, N.J., on Sept. 27, 2021. The last of thousands of Afghan refugees who awaited resettlement at eight U.S. military installations departed from the New Jersey base on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. They are completing a journey that started with the chaotic evacuation from Kabul in August. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

DHS has now released all 76,000 Afghan evacuees from military bases into U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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. The military investigation into the deadly attack during the Afghanistan evacuation has concluded that a suicide bomber, carrying 20 pounds of explosives packed with ball bearings, acted alone, and that the deaths of more than 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members were not preventable. (Department of Defense via AP) ** FILE **

Senators call on State Department to release Afghanistan withdrawal dissent cable

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Afghan wait to enter a bank, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. Six months since Kabul was ceded to the Taliban with the sudden and secret departure of U.S.-backed president residents say a calm has settled on the country, but the future is uncertain as the economy teeters on the verge of an economic collapse and the new Taliban rulers tackle the transition from war to relative peace. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Six months of Taliban: Afghans safer, poorer, less hopeful

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Ukraine will be the first domino to fall to Russia illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Ukraine will be the first domino, but not the last

By Don Bolduc