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A Taliban fighter checks an Islamic State group house that was destroyed in the ongoing conflict between the two in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Feb. 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Terrorist groups regain strength in Afghanistan; Critics question Biden ‘over the horizon’ strategy

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - A vehicle passes by a flag of the Islamic State group in central Rawah, 175 miles (281 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. U.N. investigators are compiling evidence on the development and use of chemical weapons by Islamic State extremists in Iraq after they seized about a third of the country in 2014, and are advancing work on the militant groups gender-based violence and crimes against children, Sunni and Shiite Muslims, Christians and Yazidis, the head of the investigative team said Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (AP Photo/File)

Iraqi national living in Oregon pleads guilty to conspiracy to provide material aid to ISIS

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Gift cards sit on display for sale at a retail store in Dallas, Tuesday, Nov. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/LM Otero) ** FILE **

Massachusetts teen charged with trying to use gift cards to raise funds for ISIS

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

U.S. military vehicles on a patrol in the countryside near the town of Qamishli, Syria, Sunday, Dec. 4, 2022. U.S. and Kurdish-led forces had arrested an Islamic State group militant in eastern Syria. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said in a statement Monday, Dec. 19, 2022, that they raided the home of an unnamed IS militant leader in the western countryside of Deir el-Zour and arrested him. (AP Photo/Baderkhan Ahmad, File)

4 U.S. troops injured, ISIS leader killed during helicopter raid in Syria

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A fighter from the Christian Syriac militia that battles the Islamic State group under the banner of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, burns an IS flag on the front line on the western side of Raqqa, northeast Syria, July 17, 2017. The leader of the Islamic State group, Abu al-Hassan al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, was killed in a battle recently, the group’s spokesman said in audio released Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, without giving further details. No one claimed responsibility for the killing. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Pentagon warns of ‘next generation’ of extremist fighters as terror group ISIS plots 2023 comeback

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Women walk in a neighborhood heavily damaged by airstrikes in Idlib, Syria, March 12, 2020. Syrians in the last major rebel stronghold in the war-ton country are living in fear of the effects of Russia closing down the only border crossing into the northwestern province of Idlib. Aid agencies warn that if Russia vetoes the resolution that would maintain two border crossing points from Turkey to deliver humanitarian aid, food would be depleted in Idlib and surrounding areas by September, 2022, putting the lives of some 4.1 million people, at risk. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

U.S. battles ISIS, Iran-backed militias as Syria quietly becomes top global war zone

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

Smoke rises from explosion outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. The explosion went off outside Kabul’s airport, where thousands of people have flocked as they try to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Officials offered no casualty count, but a witness said several people appeared to have been killed or wounded Thursday. (AP Photo/Wali Sabawoon)

Biden condemns terrorist attacks in Kabul, vows to ‘hunt down’ those who killed 13 U.S. troops

By Ben Wolfgang and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Afghans lie on beds at a hospital after they were wounded in the deadly attacks outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2021. Two suicide bombers and gunmen attacked crowds of Afghans flocking to Kabul's airport Thursday, transforming a scene of desperation into one of horror in the waning days of an airlift for those fleeing the Taliban takeover. (AP Photo/Mohammad Asif Khan)

Shadowy ‘ISIS-K’ group well known for grisly attacks

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iraq Exit Shut Off Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Full withdrawal from Iraq best serves America’s interests

By Lt. Col. Daniel L. Davis

In this July 2, 2019, file photo, Navy Special Operations Chief Edward Gallagher, right, walks with his wife, Andrea Gallagher as they leave a military court on Naval Base San Diego, in San Diego. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

‘I became a political football’: Ex-SEAL Eddie Gallagher tells his side of the story

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this March 31, 2019 file photo, women speak to guards at the gate that closes off the section for foreign families who lived in the Islamic State's so-called caliphate, at Al-Hol camp in Hasakeh province, Syria. Killings have surged inside the camp with at least 20 men and women killed in January, 2021. They are believed to be the victims of IS militants trying to enforce their power inside the camp housing 62,000 people, mostly women and children. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)

Pentagon ramps up attacks on resurgent ISIS: ‘It is not defeated’

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A blood-stained Taliban flag is seen on the window inside the Kabul University after a deadly attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2020. The brazen attack by gunmen who stormed the university has left many dead and wounded in the Afghan capital. The assault sparked an hours-long gun battle. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghanistan poses huge security threat for U.S. and Israel

By Carlo J.V. Caro

In this photo released on January 14, 2015, by a militant website, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, Islamic State militants kill a man they accused of being a homosexual by throwing him off a building in Syria's northeastern province of Hassakeh. The Washington-based Syria Justice and Accountability Center, a U.S.-based Syrian rights group, said Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, that evidence, documents produced by the Islamic State militants themselves, could help identify individuals responsible for atrocities during the militants four-year reign of terror in Syria, thus enabling prosecution for international crimes. (Militant website via AP)

COVID-19 impacting fight against ISIS

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

This file frame grab from a video released on Nov. 2, 2017, by the Syrian official news agency SANA shows a Syrian army tank firing during a battle against Islamic State militants in Deir el-Zour, Syria. The Islamic State group seemed largely defeated last year, with the loss of its territory, the killing of its founder in a U.S. raid and an unprecedented crackdown on its social media propaganda machine but tensions between the U.S. and Iran in the region provide a comeback opportunity for the extremist group. (SANA via AP, File)

UN: More than 10,000 active ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This March 27, 2008, file photo shows the Pentagon in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File) ** FILE **

Christopher P. Maier, Pentagon official, says Islamic State battered, but not beaten

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Washington's peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad attends the inauguration ceremony for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File) **FILE**

ISIS carried out fatal attacks on maternity ward, funeral procession: Afghan envoy

By Lauren Toms - The Washington Times

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website) **FILE**

ISIS issues ‘shariah’ coronavirus advisory on travel to Europe

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Dove Grenade Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Taliban’s inability to control Afghanistan’s ISIS insurgency problem

By Gary Anderson