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Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second left, looks as members of the Taliban delegation arrive for attending an international peace conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) ** FILE **

‘Grave doubts’ about whether Taliban can be trusted, says top U.S. general in Middle East

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - This Friday, March 19, 2021 file photo shows Mohammad Naeem, spokesman for the Taliban's political office, during a news conference in Moscow, Russia. In March 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave both the Taliban and the Afghan government an eight-page proposed peace plan, which they were to discuss, revise and review and come to Turkey ready to cobble together an agreement. But on Monday, April 12, 2021, Naeem said the religious militia won’t attend a peace conference tentatively planned for later in the week in Turkey, putting U.S. efforts to get a peace plan anytime soon in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

History As It Happens: Enter Taliban

By Martin Di Caro

In this Jan. 28, 2012, photo, U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrol west of Kabul, Afghanistan. After 20 years of military engagement and billions of dollars spent, NATO and the United States still grapple with the same, seemingly intractable conundrum — how to withdraw troops from Afghanistan without abandoning the country to even more mayhem. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi) **FILE**

Veterans express fears and mixed emotions as Afghanistan final troop withdrawal nears

By Mike Glenn - 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)

U.S. to monitor Afghanistan after troop withdrawal

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

If former President Donald Trump were to create a social media platform, an expert says he would have a "good chance of success." (Associated Press) **FILE**

Donald Trump blasts Biden Sept. 11 Afghanistan withdrawal deadline

By Alex Swoyer - The Washington Times

Lawyer Nikola Kovacevic, who represented 17 refugees, talkx to Hamid Ahmadi from Germany through an interpreter, in Belgrade, Serbia, Thursday, March 25, 2021. Hamid Ahmadi still can feel the cold of the February night when Serbian police left him and two dozen other refugees in a forest. Groups of refugees and economic migrants trying to reach Western Europe regularly give accounts of police forcibly pushing them back across borders in the Balkans. Pushbacks are illegal, and authorities routinely deny that their agencies carry out such collective expulsions, which are difficult to prove and mostly go unpunished. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Refugees win rare victory in landmark Serbia pushback ruling

By JOVANA GEC - Associated Press

National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan listens during a meeting with President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga in the State Dining Room of the White House, Friday, April 16, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik) ** FILE **

U.S. will keep tabs on terror threat even after Afghan withdrawal, Sullivan says

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

In this April 15, 2021, photo President Joe Biden speaks about Russia in the East Room of the White House in Washington. In recent days, Mr. Biden has piled new sanctions on Russia, announced he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan in less than five months and backed away from a campaign promise to sharply raise refugee admission caps. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Biden, the marshmallow in chief, has learned nothing about Iran and Afghanistan

By Gary Anderson

Antony Blinken in Afghanistan to sell Biden troop withdrawal

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Australian Defense Forces personnel parade as they are farewelled at barracks in Brisbane, Australia, before deploying to Afghanistan on June 29, 2015. Australia would complete its troop withdrawal from Afghanistan in September in line with the United States and other allies, the prime minister said on Thursday, April 15, 2021. (Dan Peled/AAP Image via AP)

Australia to withdraw last 80 troops from Afghanistan

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 14, 2002 file photo, U.S. Marines scan the northwest perimeter of the American military compound at Afghanistan's Kandahar airport using sophisticated thermal imagery equipment. The Biden administration’s surprise announcement in April 2021, of an unconditional troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, 2021, appears to strip the Taliban and the Afghan government of considerable leverage, pressuring them to reach a peace deal. (AP Photo/Marco Di Lauro, File)

US troop pullout will leave behind an uncertain Afghanistan

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

A U.S. Marine walks to pick up food supplies after they were dropped off by small parachutes from a plane outside Forward Operating Base Edi in the Helmand Province of southern Afghanistan on June 9, 2011. The smoke in the background comes from burning parachutes the Marines destroy after they reached the ground. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus, File)

AP PHOTOS: Sacrifice, sorrow: 20 years of war in Afghanistan

Associated Press

President Joe Biden removes his mask to speak from the Treaty Room in the White House on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, about the withdrawal of the remainder of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Joe Biden orders Afghanistan exit by Sept. 11: ‘Time to end America’s longest war’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, center, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for an international peace conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Russia is hosting a peace conference for Afghanistan, bringing together government representatives and their Taliban adversaries along with regional observers in a bid to help jump-start the country's stalled peace process. The one-day gathering Thursday is the first of three planned international conferences ahead of a May 1 deadline for the final withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the country, a date fixed under a year-old agreement between the Trump administration and the Taliban. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Will there be a penalty for America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan?

By Cal Thomas

In this Jan. 28, 2012, photo, U.S. soldiers, part of the NATO- led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrol west of Kabul, Afghanistan. After 20 years of military engagement and billions of dollars spent, NATO and the United States still grapple with the same, seemingly intractable conundrum — how to withdraw troops from Afghanistan without abandoning the country to even more mayhem. (AP Photo/Hoshang Hashimi) **FILE**

Taliban warns Biden U.S. troops will be ‘held liable’ after May 1

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

American soldiers wait on the tarmac in Logar province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Joe Biden to pull all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by Sept. 11

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

5 miners die, 4 missing in coal mine collapse in Afghanistan

Associated Press

FILE - This Friday, March 19, 2021 file photo shows Mohammad Naeem, spokesman for the Taliban's political office, during a news conference in Moscow, Russia. In March 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave both the Taliban and the Afghan government an eight-page proposed peace plan, which they were to discuss, revise and review and come to Turkey ready to cobble together an agreement. But on Monday, April 12, 2021, Naeem said the religious militia won’t attend a peace conference tentatively planned for later in the week in Turkey, putting U.S. efforts to get a peace plan anytime soon in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Turkey to host Afghan peace talks later this month

Associated Press

Taliban not ready to meet Afghan govt in Turkey as US wants

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghanistan Intel Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden and Austin must listen to intelligence community in charting Afghanistan withdrawal

By Daniel N. Hoffman