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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

In this handout photo released by the Taliban Prime Minister Media Office, China's new ambassador to Afghanistan Zhao Sheng meets with Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund during the recognition ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. The Taliban on Wednesday greeted China's new ambassador to Afghanistan with pomp and ceremony, calling the envoy's nomination a significant step with a significant message. (Taliban Prime Minister Media Office via AP)

Taliban hail China’s new ambassador with fanfare, say it’s a sign for others to establish relations

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Abdul Wasi Safi talks about the dental treatments he received after a clinic appointment, April 26, 2023, in Houston. The Afghan soldier who fled the Taliban and traveled through nearly a dozen countries before being arrested at the Texas-Mexico border and detained for months has been granted asylum, allowing him to remain in the United States, his brother said Wednesday, Sept. 13. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File)

Afghan soldier who was arrested at U.S.-Mexico border after fleeing Taliban is granted asylum

By Juan A. Lozano - Associated Press

Cole T. Lyle, executive director of Mission Roll Call, is urging Congress to pass the Service Dogs Assisting Veterans Act to expand access to service dogs to former service members struggling with mental health issues. His service dog, Kaya, died in February 2023. (Photo courtesy of Cole T. Lyle)

Marine veteran Cole Lyle enlists service dogs in fight against veteran suicide

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

Taliban mark the second anniversary of their takeover of the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)

The Taliban have waged a systematic assault on freedom in Afghanistan, says U.N. human rights chief

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An armed Afghan policemen destroys an opium poppy field in Noorgal, Kunar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan on April 13, 2013. Afghanistan is the world’s fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, a report from the United Nations drug agency said Sunday, Sept. 10, 2023. The country is also a major opium producer and heroin source, even though the Taliban declared a war on narcotics after they returned to power in August 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghanistan is the fastest-growing maker of methamphetamine, UN drug agency says

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard 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. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

Life on the run from Taliban ‘nightmarish’ for allies left behind in Afghanistan

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - Stranded trucks loaded with supplies for Afghanistan, park in a terminal along side on a highway after Afghan Taliban rulers closed a key border crossing point Torkham, in Landi Kotal, an area in Pakistan's district Khyber along the Afghan border, Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023. Pakistani authorities closed the key border crossing with landlocked Afghanistan on Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, shortly after border guards from the two sides exchanged fire, officials and residents said, in a sign of increasing tensions between the two neighbors. (AP Photo/Qazi Rauf, File)

Pakistan shuts key crossing into Afghanistan after border guards exchange fire

By Riaz Khan and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Women queue to receive cash at a money distribution site organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The U.N. food agency said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, that it must drop another 2 million hungry people from food assistance in Afghanistan this month due to a massive funding shortfall. The action means that 10 million people will be cut off from the agency's support this year in the country, the World Food Program said in a statement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

U.N. food agency drops aid to another 2 million hungry people in Afghanistan due to cash shortfall

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Women queue to receive cash at a money distribution site organized by the World Food Program in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The U.N. food agency said Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2023, that it must drop another 2 million hungry people from food assistance in Afghanistan this month due to a massive funding shortfall. The action means that 10 million people will be cut off from the agency's support this year in the country, the World Food Program said in a statement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

U.N. food agency drops aid to another 2 million hungry people in Afghanistan due to cash shortfall

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, speaks during a discussion about the terrorist attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate during a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 in Washington. Thirteen U.S. service members were killed, and 45 more wounded, in the terrorist attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

McCaul seeks transcribed interviews from State officials for info on deadly Afghanistan withdrawal

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times

Photos of the fallen service members are placed around a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable meeting to discuss the terrorist attack at Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 in Washington. Thirteen U.S. service members were killed, and 45 more wounded, in the terrorist attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Chaos in Afghanistan is a stern reminder that America needs leadership

By Derrick Anderson

Alicia Lopez, mother of Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez, an Abbey Gate Gold Star family member, reaches to touch the photograph of her son, after a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 in Washington. Thirteen U.S. service members were killed, and 45 more wounded, in the terrorist attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Gold Star families seek justice, closure; haunting questions linger after airport terror attack

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, evacuees wait to board a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30. 2021. (Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via AP, File)

McCarthy orders Capitol flags at half-staff to remember deaths of service members in Afghanistan

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, second from right, with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a meeting with Iraq's Minister of Defense Thabit Muhammad Al-Abbas at the Pentagon in Washington, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

House GOP lawmaker launches bid to impeach Pentagon chief Austin for Afghanistan withdrawal

By Alex Miller - The Washington Times

Illustration on Taliban rule in Afghanistan by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Afghanistan under Taliban rule is still deadly, but not for the reasons you might think

By Kraig Cole

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)

More than 200 former Afghan officials and security forces killed since Taliban takeover, U.N. says

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, holds a news conference at U.N. headquarters, on Sept. 16, 2016. Brown told a virtual U.N. press conference on the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, that its rulers are responsible for “the most egregious, vicious and indefensible violation of women’s rights and girls’ rights in the world today.” (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

U.N. envoy says ICC should prosecute Taliban for crimes against humanity for denying girls education

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Taliban flags fly at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 9, 2021. Two years on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the United States has begun easing rules that could allow commercial airlines to fly over the country in routes that cut time and burn fuel for East-West travel. But those flights shortening routes for India and Southeast Asia raise questions never answered during the Taliban's previous rule from the 1990s to the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Who wants to fly over Taliban-held Afghanistan? New FAA rules allow it, but planes largely avoid it

By Jon Gambrell - 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. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

Republicans slam Biden administration on two-year anniversary of fall of Afghanistan

By Kerry Picket - The Washington Times