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Afghan refugee girls watch a soccer game from a distance near the Village at the Fort McCoy U.S. Army base on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Fort McCoy, Wis. The fort is one of eight military installations across the country that are temporarily housing the tens of thousands of Afghans who were forced to flee their homeland in August after the U.S. withdrew its forces from Afghanistan and the Taliban took control. (Barbara Davidson/Pool Photo via AP)

State Department nixed interviews for Afghan allies seeking evacuation

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Afghanistan's former President Hamid Karzai, speaks during a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. Karzai called a White House order freeing $3.5 billion in Afghan assets for America's 9/11 families &quot;an atrocity against the Afghan people.&quot; He also sought the help of Americans, and in particular the families of the thousands killed on 9/11, to press the White House to rescind last week's order which he said was both &quot;unjust and unfair.&quot; (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Ex-Afghan president: Biden order on frozen funds an atrocity

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

A view of the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 12, 2022. U.S. officials told The Associated Press that the State Department plans to announce Saturday that virtually all American staff at the Kyiv embassy will be required to leave. The State Department would not comment. The department had earlier ordered families of U.S. embassy staffers in Kyiv to leave. But it had left it to the discretion of nonessential personnel if they wanted to depart. (AP Photo/Andrew Kravchenko)

Afghan evacuation nonprofit preps for potential rescue operation in Ukraine

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters walk at the frozen Qargha Lake, near Kabul, Afghanistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. The Taliban have detained two foreign journalists on assignment with the U.N. refugee agency and a number of its Afghan staff working in the country's capital, UNHCR said Friday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

UN: Foreign journalists, Afghan staff detained by Taliban

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

This image from video provided by the Department of Defense and released on Feb. 3, 2022, shows the compound before a raid where Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, leader of the Islamic State Group, died in Syria's northwestern Idlib province. A U.S. official says that the militant leader, one of the world's most wanted terrorists, exploded a bomb that killed himself and members of his family during the overnight raid by an elite U.S. military force. (Department of Defense via AP)

Raid that killed ISIS leader in Syria next to impossible in Afghanistan

By Ben Wolfgang - 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 **

Pentagon says single bomber carried out deadly attack on troops at Kabul airport checkpoint

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters ride atop a Humvee on the way to detain Afghans involved in a street fight in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 21, 2021. On Jan. 13, 2022, in Kabul, a Taliban security guard at a checkpoint opened fire on a car carrying a family home from a wedding, killing 25-year-old Zainab Abdullahi. The Taliban say it was a mix-up between guards. The Taliban are trying to keep discipline over thousands of young fighters who bring heavy handed methods of war into their new roles as security forces. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Senate Republicans probe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, identify planning failures

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - Afghan girls participate a lesson at Tajrobawai Girls High School, in Herat, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. The Taliban say they have reopened public universities for women students in six of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, a move marking a major concession to international demands by the country’s new rulers. Women have been banned from many jobs outside the health and teaching sector since the Taliban takeover, and girls have not been able to go to school after grade six. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Taliban reopen universities for Afghan women in 6 provinces

By Tameem Akhgar - Associated Press

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Republicans fume after closed-door hearing on Afghan pullout

By Ben Wolfgang and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this recent photo provided by Charlotte Bellis, Bellis poses in a selfie with her partner Jim Huylebroek in Kabul, Afghanistan. Bellis, a pregnant New Zealand reporter who is expecting her first child with Huylebroek, has chosen Afghanistan as a temporary base for her uphill fight to return home because of her country's stringent COVID-19 entry rules. Huylebroek, a freelance photographer and Belgium native, has lived in Afghanistan for two years. (Charlotte Bellis via AP)

Pregnant New Zealand journalist in Afghanistan can go home

By Nick Perry - Associated Press

U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan Thomas West, left, speaks to Sayed Ishaq Gailani, center, founder and chairman of the National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan, ahead of a meeting, in Oslo, Norway, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. Western diplomats are meeting with Afghan women’s rights activists and human rights defenders in Oslo ahead of the first official talks with the Taliban in Europe since the Taliban took over in August. (Stian Lysberg Solum/NTB via AP)

Taliban hold first talks in Europe since Afghan takeover

By David Keyton - Associated Press

Representatives of the Taliban arrive in Gardermoen, Norway, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. A Taliban delegation has traveled to Norway for talks. It will meet with representatives of the Norwegian authorities and several allied countries but also with civil society activists and human rights defenders from Afghanistan. (Terje Bendiksby/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Taliban talks in Norway raise new debate about recognition

By David Keyton - Associated Press

A-29 Super Tucano planes are on display during a handover from the NATO-led Resolute Support mission to the Afghan army at the military Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2020. A year-old report by Washingtons Afghanistan watchdog warned in early 2021, months before President Joe Biden announced the end to America's longest war, the Afghan air force would collapse without critical U.S. aid, training and American maintenance. The report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko was classified back when it was written and only declassified on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Watchdog agency warned of Afghan Air Force collapse long before U.S. withdrawal

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Illustration on Afghanistan and the U. S. Air Force by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Basic Air Force planning MIA in Afghan withdrawal debacle

By J.V. Venable

Sanam, a bacha posh, a girl living as a boy, sits next to her mother and father during an interview in their house, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2021. In the heavily patriarchal, male-dominated society of Afghanistan, where women and girls are usually relegated to the home, there is one tradition which allows girls access to the male world: Bacha posh. A girl dresses, behaves and is treated as a boy, allowing her to play and to work as a boy would be able to do. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Afghan tradition allows girls to access the freedom of boys

By Mstyslav Chernov and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Hundreds of Afghan men gather to apply for the humanitarian aid in Qala-e-Naw, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. In a statement Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, the White House announced $308 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan, offering new aid to the country as it edges toward a humanitarian crisis since the Taliban takeover nearly five months earlier. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)

U.S. to provide $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan as Taliban gov’t falters

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Pakistani mother Shahana with her husband Ajoon Khan sit next to photos of their son Asfand Khan, who was killed in a 2014 assault by Pakistani Taliban militants on an army public school, during an interview with The Associated Press, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. Each year on Jan. 17 Shahana bakes a cake and invites friends to her home to sing happy birthday, even light a candle but it's a birthday without the birthday boy, she says. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Afghan Taliban turn blind eye to Pakistani militants

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Qandi Gul holds her brother outside their home housing those displaced by war and drought near Herat, Afghanistan. Dec. 16, 2021. Gul’s father sold her into marriage without telling his wife, taking a down-payment so he could feed his family of five children. Without that money, he told her, they would all starve. He had to sacrifice one to save the rest. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Parents selling children shows desperation of Afghanistan

By Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Haseena Niazi, a 24-year-old from Afghanistan, poses outside her home, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, north of Boston. Niazi received a letter from the federal government denying her fiancé's humanitarian parole application earlier in the month. Her fiance, who she asked not to be named over concerns about his safety, had received threats from Taliban members for working on women's health issues at a hospital north of Kabul. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Hundreds of Afghans denied humanitarian entry into U.S.

By Philip Marcelo and Amy Taxin - Associated Press

Then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is seated after his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington, June 25, 2021. In an interview aired by the BBC on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, Afghanistan's former president recounts his final hours in office, says he had just minutes to decide to flee and denies an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputing accounts of former government officials, Taliban and even a former U.S. negotiator. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani breaks silence, defends decision to flee

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times