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Local residents and Afghan nationals chant slogan during a protest rally in the southwestern border town of Chaman, Pakistan, Oct. 26, 2023. U.N. agencies say there has been a sharp increase in Afghans returning home since Pakistan launched a crackdown on migrants who are in the country illegally. The policy targets all undocumented or unregistered foreigners, according to the government. (AP Photo)

Sharp increase in Afghans leaving Pakistan due to illegal migrant crackdown, say U.N. agencies

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Matiullah Wesa, a girls' education advocate, reads to students in the open area in Spin Boldak district in the southern Kandahar province of Afghanistan on May 21, 2022. The Taliban have freed the Afghan activist who campaigned for the education of girls, a local nonprofit organization said Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. Wesa was arrested seven months ago and spent 215 days in prison, according to the group, Pen Path. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Khan)

Taliban free Afghan activist arrested 7 months ago after campaigning for girls’ education

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Pakistan's team coach Mickey Arthur, left facing camera, talks with the team ahead of their ICC Men's Cricket World Cup match against Afghanistan in Chennai, India, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)

Afghanistan records another upset at World Cup, beats Pakistan by eight wickets

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Afghan firefighters extinguish vehicles on fire after an attack at the main gate of International Hamed Karzai Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 10, 2015. At a time when Americans are deeply divided along party lines, a new poll shows agreement on at least one issue: The United States' two-decade-long war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Republicans and Democrats agree that the Afghanistan war wasn’t worth it, an AP-NORC poll shows

By Linley Sanders and Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

Afghanistan's Mujeeb ur Rahman celebrates the wicket of England's Chris Woakes during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup match between Afghanistan and England in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

New Zealand beats Afghanistan by 149 runs for 4th straight win at Cricket World Cup

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Afghanistan's Mujeeb ur Rahman celebrates the wicket of England's Chris Woakes during the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup match between Afghanistan and England in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

England’s title defense in trouble at Cricket World Cup after stunning loss to Afghanistan

By Chetan Narula - Associated Press

President Joe Biden speaks at the 2023 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) **FILE**

World crises sound alarm, but Biden’s foreign policy delivers shaky response

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

An Afghan girl cries in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, U.N. says

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Tessa Gregory from Leigh Day solicitors who represent Afghan families affected by alleged illegal activity by British special forces in the war-torn nation between 2010 and 2013, makes a a statement outside the Royal Courts of Justice, in London, Monday, Oct. 9, 2023. An independent inquiry has opened in the U.K. to examine claims that British special forces murdered dozens of Afghan men during counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan a decade ago. It will also look into allegations that authorities subsequently covered up the alleged illegal activity. (Jonathan Brady/PA Wire/PA via AP)

An independent inquiry opens into alleged unlawful killings by U.K. special forces in Afghanistan

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

Afghan people carry the body of a relative killed in an earthquake to a burial site after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. It's one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Senior Taliban officials visit province struck by earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

An aerial view of the outskirts of Herat, Afghanistan, Monday, June 5, 2023. Two 6.3 magnitude earthquakes killed dozens of people in western Afghanistan's Herat province on Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023, the country's national disaster authority said. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Two 6.3-magnitude earthquakes kill dozens and injure many more in western Afghanistan

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Iranian Narges Mohammadi, delegate of the Center for Human Rights Defenders, listens to a question during a press conference on the Assessment of the Human Rights Situation in Iran, at the U.N. headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 9, 2008. The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi for fighting oppression of women in Iran. The chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee announced the prize Friday, Oct. 6, 2023 in Oslo. (Magali Girardin/Keystone via AP, File)

Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Iranian women 20 years apart trace tensions with the West

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

An Afghan refugee family returns to Afghanistan through Pakistan's border crossing, Torkham, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 11, 2015. Pakistan's caretaker Interior Minister on Tuesday, Oct. 3, 2023, asked all illegal immigrants, including Afghans, to go back to their countries voluntarily before October 30 to avoid mass arrest and forced deportation, sending a wave of panic, especially among 1.7 million Afghan refugees living in the Islamic nation without valid documents. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Pakistan announces big crackdown on migrants in the country illegally, including 1.7 million Afghans

By Munir Ahmed and Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Code Pink Strategy for America supporting Ukraine War Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

10 reasons conservatives should not oppose further military aid to Ukraine

By Clifford D. May

Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. The mental health of Afghan women, who have suffered under harsh measures imposed by the Taliban since taking power two years ago, has deteriorated across the country, according to a joint report from three U.N. agencies released Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

As mental health worsens among Afghanistan’s women, the U.N. is asked to declare ‘gender apartheid’

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Evacuees from Afghanistan wait with other evacuees to fly to the United States or another safe location in a makeshift departure gate inside a hanger at the United States Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, Sept. 1, 2021. The Afghan man who speaks only Farsi represented himself in U.S. immigration court, and the judge denied him asylum. The Associated Press obtained a transcript of the hearing that offers a rare look inside an opaque and overwhelmed immigration court system where hearings are closed and judges are under pressure to move quickly given the backlog of 2 million cases. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

He spoke no English, had no lawyer: Afghan man’s case offers a glimpse into U.S. immigration court

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, on Aug. 9, 2023. The United Nations said Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, it has documented more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations committed by authorities in Afghanistan during arrests and detentions of people, and urged the Taliban government to stop torture and protect the rights of detainees. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

U.N. urges Afghanistan’s Taliban government to stop torture and protect the rights of detainees

By Rahim Faiez - 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. Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

2 years ago, the Taliban banned girls from school. It’s a worsening crisis for all Afghans

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

FILE - Smoke rises from a deadly explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 26, 2021. The Pentagon’s Central Command has decided to interview roughly two dozen service members who were at the Kabul airport when suicide bombers attacked during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal but weren’t included in the military’s initial investigation. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon, File)

U.S. military orders new interviews on the deadly 2021 Afghan airport attack as criticism persists

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

FILE - Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife, Stephanie, arrive at Circuit Court, Thursday, March 30, 2023 in Charlottesville, Va. The U.S. government has warned a Virginia judge that allowing Marine Maj. Joshua Mast and his wife to keep an Afghan war orphan risks violating international law and could be viewed around the world as “endorsing an act of international child abduction,” according to secret court records reviewed by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Secret records: Government says Marine’s adoption of Afghan orphan seen as abduction, must be undone

By Martha Mendoza, Claire Galofaro and Juliet Linderman - Associated Press