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A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as diplomatic vehicles left the compound amid the Taliban advance on the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghanistan anti-Taliban resistance begs for U.S. support, gets nothing from Biden

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Pelosi and Congressional Democrats' Jan. 6 Capitol Witch Hunt Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Pelosi’s Jan. 6 witch hunt

By David Bossie

A boy flies a kite on Tape Nadir Khan hill in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Saturday, Dec. 4 , 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

U.S. Treasury creates pathway to send aid to Afghanistan

By Josh Boak - Associated Press

Illustration on after Afghanistan by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

After Afghanistan, U.S. should strengthen ties with Central Asia

By Stephen Blank

Taliban fighters ride in a boat in the Qargha dam outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Biden eases sanctions on Afghanistan, allowing U.S. tax dollars to fund civil society programs

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks to reporters as she walks out of a House Democratic Progressive Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House Democrats demand Biden ease economic sanctions on the Taliban regime

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Afghan migrants Ali Rezaie, center, and Sayed Hamza trek through the French-Italian Alps to reach a migrant refuge in Briancon, France, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August, some Afghans resolved to escape and embarked on forbidding journeys of thousands of kilometers to Europe. Rezaie's odyssey through five countries has carried him high into the French-Italian Alps, where he is pushing through knee-deep snow to evade border guards. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Afghans push through snowy Alps toward new lives in Europe

By John Leicester and Daniel Cole - Associated Press

President Joe Biden presents the Medal of Honor to Army Master Sgt. Earl Plumlee for his actions in Afghanistan on Aug. 28, 2013, during an event in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden honors three soldiers with Medal of Honor for bravery in Iraq, Afghanistan

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin stands with Lithuania's Minister of Defense Arvydas Anusauskas during an honor cordon upon his arrival at the Pentagon in Washington, Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. No U.S. troops involved in the August drone strike that killed innocent Kabul civilians and children will face disciplinary action, U.S. defense officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Austin says no punishments for botched drone strike in Afghanistan that killed 10 civilians

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

The foreign minister in Afghanistan's new Taliban-run Cabinet, Amir Khan Muttaqi, gives a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. In an interview to the Associated Press, Mutaqqi said Afghanistan's new rulers are committed to education and jobs for girls and women, have learned lessons from their previous time in power and appeal to the world's "mercy and compassion" to help millions of Afghans in desperate need. (AP Photo/Muhammad Farooq, File)

Taliban seek ties with U.S., other ex-foes

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

President Joe Biden delivers closing remarks to the virtual Summit for Democracy, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Friday, Dec. 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

Biden to award Medal of Honor to first Black veteran of Iraq, Afghanistan

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2021 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, an Air Force aircrew, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, prepares to receive soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the final noncombatant evacuation operation missions at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul Afghanistan. The Taliban, which is in need of foreign aid, has said it will allow people with valid travel papers to leave, and the international community says it will be monitoring to see if they keep their word. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Taliban overlords punishing allies Biden abandoned

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

Russian President Vladimir Putin during his talks with U.S. President Joe Biden in the Bocharov Ruchei residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. The video call between U.S. President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin, during which the two leaders are expected to discuss tensions over Ukraine. (Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Biden warns Putin of sharp reaction if Russia invades Ukraine

By David R. Sands and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, the former Foreign Secretary, arrives ahead of the government's weekly Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, in London, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned many of the nation’s allies in Afghanistan and left them to the mercy of the Taliban during the fall of the capital, Kabul, because of a dysfunctional and arbitrary evacuation effort, whistleblower Raphael Marshall alleged Tuesday. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

Whistleblower: As Afghanistan fell, UK abandoned supporters

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

A political mural by the Kabul street art group ArtLords depicts a heart rather than a gun in an Afghan's camel saddlebag, one of more than 2,000 public artworks the Taliban have destroyed since taking over Afghanistan in August. Some refugees from the group recreated one of the murals at a live art show in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Dec. 3. (ArtLords/Women for Afghan Women)

Afghan refugees share painful stories in D.C. art show

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

An Afghan woman wearing a burka exits a small shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Women's rights activists in the Afghan capital of Kabul insisted Sunday they would continue fighting for their right to education, employment and participation in Afghan political and social life, and said a recent Taliban decree banning forced marriage was not enough to address the issue of women's rights. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Women activists call for more rights in Afghanistan

Associated Press

Taliban fighters and Afghan men pray in Kamar Kalagh village near Herat, Afghanistan, Saturday , Nov. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Taliban deny targeted killings of officials linked to U.S.-backed government

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, prepare to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the final noncombatant evacuation operation missions at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 30, 2021. The U.S. airlifted 124,000 people out of Kabul over about six weeks as the American-backed Afghan military and government fell to the Taliban. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP) **FILE**

Afghanistan evacuation price tag rises by $7 billion

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Alexander Matheou, Asia-Pacific regional director for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, speaks to the Associated Press, in Kabul, on Thursday, Dec, 2, 2021. Matheou said that Afghanistan is being hit by multiple crises that are &quot;progressively getting worse,&quot; with drought, economic collapse and displacement all pushing the population into catastrophic hunger, adding that the onset of winter now will only increase the pain for Afghans and drive some closer to disaster. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Aid official: Afghanistan’s crises get ‘progressively worse’

By Lee Keath - Associated Press

FILE - In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, an Air Force aircrew, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, prepares to receive soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the final noncombatant evacuation operation missions at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. The U.S. airlifted 124,000 people out of Kabul over about six weeks as the American-backed Afghan military and government fell to the Taliban. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)

What happened to the Afghanistan evacuation?

By Ben Fox - Associated Press