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In this photo released by Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Saturday, March 23, 2024, firefighters work in the burned concert hall after an attack on the building of the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia. Russia's top state investigative agency says the death toll in the Moscow concert hall attack has risen to over 130. The attack Friday on Crocus City Hall, a sprawling mall and concert venue on Moscow's western edge, also left many wounded and left the building a smoldering ruin. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

Putin says gunmen who raided Moscow concert hall tried to escape to Ukraine. Kyiv denies involvement

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In this photo released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Saturday, March 23, 2024, Russian Emergency Ministry rescuers work inside the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 23, 2024, following an attack Friday, for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility. Over 90 people were killed authorities said. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

Death toll from attack on Moscow concert hall reaches 133

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A woman places flowers by the fence next to the Crocus City Hall, on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 23, 2024, following an attack Friday, for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility. Russian officials say more than 90 people have been killed by assailants who burst into a concert hall and sprayed the crowd with gunfire. (AP Photo/Vitaly Smolnikov)

Russia detains 11 in an attack on Moscow concert hall that killed at least 133

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In this photo released by the Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service on Saturday, March 23, 2024, Russian Emergency Ministry rescuers work inside the Crocus City Hall on the western edge of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, March 23, 2024, following an attack Friday, for which the Islamic State group claimed responsibility. Over 90 people were killed authorities said. (Russian Emergency Ministry Press Service via AP)

Putin suggests Ukraine was linked to deadly attack on Moscow-area concert hall

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In this photo released by the Iranian Presidency Office, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, center, visits a woman who was wounded in Wednesday's bomb explosion in the city of Kerman about 510 miles (820 kms) southeast of the capital Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 5, 2024. Iranian officials tried Friday to link Israel and the U.S. to an Islamic State group-claimed suicide bombing, seeking to intertwine the assault with wider Middle East tensions from the Israel-Hamas war. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)

It’s complicated: Terror group ISIS-K targets U.S. — and its worst enemies

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A girl reads a book in her classroom on the first day of the new school year, in Kabul, Saturday, March 25, 2023. Afghanistan’s schools open Wednesday for the new educational year, while thousands of schoolgirls remain barred from attending classes for the third year as Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade. The Taliban stopped girls’ education beyond sixth grade because they said it didn’t comply with their interpretation of Islamic law, or Sharia. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Afghanistan’s school year starts without more than 1 million girls barred from education by Taliban

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, left, and retired Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, former commander of the U.S. Central Command, appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Generals fault State in Afghanistan; witnesses say mix of factors led to chaos in troop withdrawal

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Retired Gen. Mark A. Milley, left, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, left, and retired Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, former commander of the U.S. Central Command, speak to the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, March 19, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Failures of Biden administration drove chaotic fall of Kabul, top former U.S. generals say

By Tara Copp - Associated Press

In this photo released by Prime Minister's Office, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, left, meets with newly elected Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Saturday, March 9, 2023. Pakistan's lawmakers have chosen Zardari as the country's new president. It's his second time in the job. Zardari is the widower of assassinated former Premier Benazir Bhutto and the father of former Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, (Prime Minister Office via AP) ** FILE **

Pakistani jets target suspected Pakistani Taliban hideouts in Afghanistan, killing 8 people

By Munir Ahmed and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks at a campaign rally Saturday, March 9, 2024, at Pullman Yards in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Robert Hur: Biden told ghostwriter he had classified documents, read them out loud

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Special counsel Robert Hur arrives ahead of a hearing of the House Judiciary Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 12, 2024. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

‘Was I still VP?’ Biden’s memory failed him in interviews over classified documents

By Susan Ferrechio - The Washington Times

Armed al-Shabab fighters ride on pickup trucks as they prepare to travel into the city, just outside the capital Mogadishu, in Somalia on Dec. 8, 2008. The al-Qaida-linked militant group al-Shabab claimed an attack that killed three Emirati troops and a Bahraini military officer on a training mission at a military base in the Somali capital, authorities said Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024.(AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Biden has few options for floundering war on al-Shabab, with echoes of Afghanistan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 23, 2023. Afghan women feel scared or unsafe leaving their home alone because of Taliban decrees and enforcement campaigns on clothing and male guardians, according to a report from the U.N. mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban decrees on clothing and male guardians leave Afghan women scared to go out alone

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Taliban fighters patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 19, 2021. Human Rights Watch said Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, that Afghanistan’s public health system has been hit hard following a sharp reduction in foreign assistance, coupled with serious Taliban abuses against women and girls, jeopardizing the right to healthcare of millions of Afghans. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Foreign aid drops sharply as Taliban abuses jeopardize the Afghan health system, group says

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Taliban fighters patrol on the road during a celebration marking the second anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. More than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday, Aug. 22. The most targeted groups have been former army, police and intelligence forces, according to the report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq, file)

Taliban reports survivors among 6 people Russian private jet was carrying after crash in Afghanistan

By Rahim Faiez and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Afghan refugees settle in a camp near the Torkham Pakistan-Afghanistan border, in Torkham, Afghanistan, Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. The Taliban says Pakistan has effectively closed a key northwestern border crossing with Afghanistan to truck drivers. Pakistani authorities began requesting passports and visas from Afghan drivers, according to a Taliban official. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Pakistan effectively shuts the key crossing into Afghanistan to truck drivers

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Taliban commander Mazlumyar, 32, center, poses for a portrait with security guards who work for the Migration department, after the distribution of food rations for women by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 28, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

Afghan girls lashed for lack of hijab: Yay, Joe Biden

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Afghan children walk through a tent camp in Zindan Jan, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024, three months after a massive earthquake hit the area. (AP Photo/ Omid Haqjo)

Survivors struggle to rebuild their lives three months after Afghanistan’s devastating earthquake

By Omid Haqjo - Associated Press

Three internally displaced children look with surprise at an apple that their mother brought home after begging, in a camp on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Feb 2, 2023. Since the chaotic Taliban takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15, 2021, an already war-devastated economy once kept alive by international donations alone is now on the verge of collapse. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Displaced, repatriated and crossing borders: Afghan people make grueling journeys to survive

By Ebrahim Noroozi - Associated Press

Afghan girls attend a religious school, which remained open since the last year's Taliban takeover, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 11, 2022. Afghan girls of all ages are permitted to study in religious schools, which are traditionally boys-only, a Taliban official said Thursday Dec. 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Afghan schoolgirls are finishing sixth grade in tears. Under Taliban rule, their education is over

By Mohammad Habib Rahmani - Associated Press