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In this 1998 file photo made available on March 19, 2004, Ayman al-Zawahri poses for a photograph in Khost, Afghanistan. Al-Zawahri, the top al-Qaida leader, was killed by the U.S. over the weekend in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak about the operation on Monday night, Aug. 1, 2022, from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

Al-Zawahri’s path went from Cairo clinic to top of al-Qaida

By Lee Keath - Associated Press

As seen on a computer screen from a DVD prepared by Al-Sahab production, Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri speaks in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 20, 2006. Al-Zawahiri, the top Al Qaeda leader, was killed by the U.S. over the weekend in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak about the operation on Monday night, Aug. 1, 2022, from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)

U.S. kills al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in drone strike

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

A general view of Karama camp for internally displaced Syrians, Monday, Feb. 14, 2022, by the village of Atma, Idlib province, Syria. Fallout from the 2-month-old war in Ukraine is worsening long-term humanitarian crises elsewhere, including in Syria. (AP Photo/Omar Albam, File)

U.S. strike kills terror leader in Syria

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Afghan militiamen join Afghan defense and security forces during a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 23, 2021. A new report says decisions by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan were the key factors in the collapse of that nation's military, leading to the Taliban takeover last year. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

UN: Taliban faces threat from Islamic State, new resistance

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Taliban fighters stand guard during women's protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahmad Halabisaz) ** FILE **

‘Plan Z’: With Afghanistan lost, U.S. weighs help from Taliban, adversaries in terror fight

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Milley and Austin In Hot Water Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Questions for Milley and Austin about Afghanistan

By Jed Babbin

Illustration on Pakistan's radicalization by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Time for U.S. to unfriend Pakistan

By Clifford D. May

Illustration on Taliban complicity in the 9/11 attacks by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

A look back at the 9/11 commission as Biden coddles terrorists

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Vehicles drive past a mural paying homage to late Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar, left, and the late founder of the feared Haqqani network, Jalaluddin Haqqani, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Sept. 11, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Biden administration perpetuates a lie about 9/11

By Abraham Wagner

In this May 3, 2011, file photo, local residents gather outside a house where al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)

Still going after the bad guys: 20 years after 9/11, U.S. tallies wins, losses in war on terror

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pakistani Ambassador Asad Majeed Khan lamented during a wide-ranging interview that millions of people inside Indian-controlled Jammu and Kashmir have been on lockdown without access to medicine or electricity.

EXCLUSIVE: Pakistan key to terror fight in wake of Taliban takeover, ambassador says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on 9/11 (September 11) anniversaries by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

After twenty 9/11 anniversaries, the sleeping giant nods off again

By Clifford D. May

In this photo courtesy of the Ronald Reagan Library, then-President Ronald Reagan meets with Afghan &quot;freedom fighters&quot; on Feb. 2, 1983, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, to discuss Soviet atrocities in Afghanistan. The Taliban did not emerge until 1994. A Twitter user posted the photo on Sept. 7, 2019, with a caption implying that Reagan met with the Taliban: “NeverTrumpers: A President meeting with the Taliban, this is horrific!” The miscaptioned photo circulated prominently on Twitter and Facebook after it was revealed that President Donald Trump planned to meet with Taliban leaders and Afghan officials at the presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland, just days before the 9/11 anniversary. (Courtesy Ronald Reagan Library via AP) ** FILE **

History As It Happens: Afghanistan and the law of unintended consequences

By Martin Di Caro

Taliban special force fighters arrive inside the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. military's withdrawal, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. The Taliban were in full control of Kabul's international airport on Tuesday, after the last U.S. plane left its runway, marking the end of America's longest war. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)

As U.S. exits, bin Laden’s security chief makes triumphant return in Afghanistan

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Taliban special forces fighters stand guard outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. military's withdrawal, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. The Taliban were in full control of Kabul's airport on Tuesday, after the last U.S. plane left its runway, marking the end of America's longest war. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)

Taliban celebrate, al Qaeda leaders return to Afghanistan day after U.S. exit

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Osama bin Laden is seen at a news conference in Khost, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)

Taliban claims ‘no proof’ Osama bin Laden involved in 9/11 attacks

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Afghan anti-al-Qaeda fighters rest at a former al Qaeda base in the White Mountains near Tora Bora on Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2001, behind a string of ammunition found after the retreat of al-Qaida members from the area. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder) ** FILE **

Al Qaeda could again threaten U.S. from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, experts say

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 9, 2021, file photo, Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about infrastructure investment at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering in College Park, Md. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool, File)

Blinken contradicts Biden’s assertion that al Qaeda is ‘gone’ from Afghanistan

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 20, 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, a Marine assigned to the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit carries a girl at a gate to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (1st Lt. Mark Andries/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)

Inside the Afghanistan debacle: Biden abandoned Trump’s pullout plan

By Rowan Scarborough and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Taliban officials arrange a Taliban flag, before a press conference by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, at the Government Media Information Center, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. Mujahid vowed Tuesday that the Taliban would respect women's rights, forgive those who resisted them and ensure a secure Afghanistan as part of a publicity blitz aimed at convincing world powers and a fearful population that they have changed. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

On eve of Kabul’s fall to Taliban, U.S. watchdog predicted ‘bleak’ future with al Qaeda on the rise

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times