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President Joe Biden speaks about the situation in Afghanistan from the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Aug. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

What Biden must do in Afghanistan

By L. Scott Lingamfelter

A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday, further tightening their grip on the country as panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) **FILE**

Afghanistan craters Biden approval rating

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 14, 2020, file photo, then-Michigan's 3rd District Congressional Republican candidate Peter Meijer speaks at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Mich. Meijer, one of just 10 Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump over the deadly attack on the Capitol, defended his decision while taking pointed criticism from voters Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Reps. Peter Meijer, Seth Moulton make undisclosed visit to Kabul

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the full FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

G-7 grapples with Afghanistan, an afterthought not long ago

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2021. The Taliban celebrated Afghanistan's Independence Day on Thursday by declaring they beat the United States, but challenges to their rule ranging from running a country severely short on cash and bureaucrats to potentially facing an armed opposition began to emerge. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban follow strict Islamic creed that doesn’t change with the times, scholars say

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

The 2,500-plus U.S. troops remaining in Afghanistan face a period of maximum uncertainty and vulnerability in the next few months. The Pentagon may have to send more U.S. forces to the country, at least temporarily, to help speed the withdrawal. (Associated Press/File)

Blame Afghanistan on ‘the suits not the boots’

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Afghanistan is more dangerous illustration by Linas Garsys / The Washington Times

Why Afghanistan is more dangerous

By Daniel N. Hoffman

Illustration on forthcoming burdens on our military after Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Military will bear brunt of Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal

By Brett Velicovich

A column of Taliban fighters go through the front line in the village of Amirabad, northern Afghanistan, Saturday Nov. 24 2001. Hundreds of Taliban defected to the northern alliance Saturday, paving the way for the fall of Kunduz where several thousand foreign fighters are said to remain. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Biden accused of bowing to Taliban on Afghanistan pullout timetable

By Dave Boyer and Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane, some climbing on the plane, as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug.16. 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac at the airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto the American military jet as it took off and plunged to death. (Verified UGC via AP)

‘Worst foreign policy blunder’: House Republicans push resolutions ripping Afghanistan withdrawal

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Illustration on Biden's twin catastrophes and terrorists by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Biden’s twin catastrophes put U.S. in the terrorists’ crosshairs

By Deroy Murdock

In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, families board a U.S. Air Force Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (Sgt. Samuel Ruiz/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)

Team Biden unsure how many Americans need to be evacuated as deadline nears, lawmakers say

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Illustration on the fallout of the Afghanistan situation by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s lies and their consequences in the fall of Afghanistan

By Kay C. James

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, right, stands next to Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during a welcome ceremony at the Istana in Singapore Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

VP Harris to arrive in Vietnam as evacuation of Kabul evokes memories of fall of Saigon

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this July 24, 2021, file photo, former President Donald Trump speaks on a variety of topics to supporters at a Turning Point Action gathering in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Republican politicians still bitter at Trump over ‘America First’

By Charles Hurt - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, March 3, 2020, photo, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., talks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) **FILE**

Adam Schiff: Afghanistan evacuation ‘very unlikely’ to be completed by Aug. 31 deadline

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jen Psaki arrives for the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Jen Psaki says no Americans are ‘stranded’ in Afghanistan

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 19, 2021, file photo, Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan. In the U.S. departure from Afghanistan, China has seen the realization of long-held hopes for a reduction of the influence of a geopolitical rival in what it considers its backyard. Yet, it is also deeply concerned that the very withdrawal could bring instability to that backyard - Central Asia - and possibly even spill over the border into China itself in its heavily Muslim northwestern region of Xinjiang. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Biden faces heat as Taliban threaten U.S. troops, armed Afghan resistance grows

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration on Afghanistan's ripple effect by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Afghanistan’s ripple effect: America’s global standing diminished

By Cal Thomas

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, right, and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hold a meeting in Singapore Monday, Aug. 23, 2021. (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

VP Harris: Focus must stay on Afghan evacuation, declines to evaluate what went wrong in messy exit

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times