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A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021, as the capital was captured by Taliban forces. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

House GOP highlights administration failings in report on botched Afghanistan withdrawal

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

An Afghan woman tailor works with a sewing machine in the Afghan Women Business Hub in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, July 2, 2024. Half of Afghanistan's population now finds itself locked out of the freedom to work at a time when the country's economy is worse than ever, with few jobs available to women in the country. (AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)

An Afghan woman wanted to be a doctor. Now she makes pickles as the Taliban restricts women’s roles

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Retired Gen. Mark Milley, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, left, and retired Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, former commander of the U.S. Central Command, appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, March 19, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Generals fault State in Afghanistan; witnesses say mix of factors led to chaos in troop withdrawal

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

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)

Taliban reports survivors among 6 people Russian private jet was carrying after crash in Afghanistan

By Rahim Faiez and Jon Gambrell - 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

FILE- A cyclist pedals past the Afghan Embassy in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. The Afghan embassy in New Delhi is continuing to function, days after it said it was closing due to a lack of diplomatic support in India and the absence of a recognized government in Kabul, India's foreign ministry said on Thursday. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri, File)

India says the Afghan embassy in New Delhi is functioning despite the announcement of suspension

Associated Press

A cyclist pedals past the Afghan Embassy in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. India's External Affairs Ministry is examining a letter from the Afghan Embassy that says it plans to cease all operations in the Indian capital by Saturday, an official said Friday. India has not recognized the Taliban government which seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021. It evacuated its own staff from Kabul ahead of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan two years ago and no longer has a diplomatic presence there. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Afghan Embassy closes in India citing a lack of diplomatic support and personnel

By Ashok Sharma - 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 - Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

The Taliban are entrenched in Afghanistan after 2 years of rule. Women and girls pay the price

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

FILE - Mourners carry the body of a victim of an explosion in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. The Taliban say at least three people have been killed and 13 others wounded in an explosion in the Afghan capital. AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Two-year timeline of events in Afghanistan since 2021 Taliban takeover

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

A woman walks past beauty salons with window decorations which have been defaced in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. A spokesman at Afghanistan's Vice and Virtue Ministry said Tuesday, July 4, 2023, the Taliban are banning women's beauty salons. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

The Taliban use tasers, fire hoses and gunfire to break up Afghan women protesting beauty salon ban

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Taliban fighters stand guard at the explosion site, near the Foreign Ministry in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, March 27, 2023. A suicide bomber has struck near the foreign ministry in the Afghan capital, killing at least six people and wounding about a dozen. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN says Afghan girls’ education activist arrested in Kabul

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, speaks during a Republican news conference ahead of the State of the Union, March 1, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. A senior Republican lawmaker on Sunday criticized the Biden administration for not sending F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine, as tensions simmer about whether China could send weapons to help Russia in the year-long war. McCaul, chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee, told ABC's “This Week” that planes and long-range artillery could help end the war on a faster timeline. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

House GOP to subpoena State Department for secret Afghanistan documents

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Antony Blinken testifies to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Thursday, March 23, 2023, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

175 Americans are still in Afghanistan, some held by the Taliban

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

A Save the Children nutrition counselor, right, explains to Nelab, 22, how to feed her 11-month-old daughter, Parsto, with therapeutic food, which is used to treat severe acute malnutrition, in Sar-e-Pul province of Afghanistan, Thursday, Sept. 29, 2022. (Save the Children via AP, File)

UN says Taliban divided on appeal to restore women’s rights

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Afghan mixed martial arts fighter poses for a photo with her trophies in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Oct. 31, 2022. The ruling Taliban have banned women from sports as well as barring them from most schooling and many realms of work. A number of women posed for an AP photographer for portraits with the equipment of the sports they loved. Though they do not necessarily wear the burqa in regular life, they chose to hide their identities with their burqas because they fear Taliban reprisals and because some of them continue to practice their sports in secret. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Afghan women athletes barred from play, fear Taliban threats

Associated Press

Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The U.S. has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions. It is the latest blow to female rights and freedoms since the Taliban seized power last year and follows sweeping restrictions on education, employment, clothing and travel. (AP Photo, File)

U.N. official, Taliban minister meet about Afghan women NGO ban

Associated Press

Afghan students walk toward their university in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ** FILE **

Afghan women weep as Taliban fighters enforce university ban

Associated Press

In this Aug. 26, 2021, image provided by the U.S. Army, an Afghan man hands his child to a British Paratrooper assigned to 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment while a member of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conducts security at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (U.S. Army via AP) **FILE**

Failures of Afghanistan pullout fade for voters

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Bashir Noorzai, a senior Taliban detainee held at Guantanamo, speaks during his release ceremony, at the Intercontinental Hotel, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and member of the Taliban, told reporters in Kabul on Monday that he spent 17 years and six months in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and that he was the last Taliban prisoner there. Taliban-appointed Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said Monday that the released American was Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran and civilian contractor kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban detainee freed from Guantanamo, claims exchanged for American prisoner

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press