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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)

Over-the-horizon U.S. strike on terrorist raises fears of what’s being missed

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters chant slogans during a celebration marking the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

History As It Happens: Taliban redux

By Martin Di Caro

A carry team loads a transfer case with the remain of Navy Corpsman Maxton W. Soviak, 22, of Berlin Heights, Ohio, into a transfer vehicle during a casualty return at Dover Air Force Base, Del., Sunday, Aug. 29, 2021, for the 13 service members killed in the suicide bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Biden marks one-year anniversary of suicide attack that killed 13 U.S. troops amid Afghan withdrawal

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Afghanistan and bringing back a terrorist state illustration by The Washington Times

Afghanistan stalemate beats betraying an ally, losing a war and bringing back a terrorist state

By Don Ritter

A woman passes a pile of bricks that will be used for the construction of a mosque in the Mirbacha Kot hospital, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. The construction of the mosque is the new manager's top priority as health care workers continue to work without salaries, without medicine and with frequent power cuts in Afghanistan's crumbling economy. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Religious freedom ‘does not exist’ in Afghanistan one year after Taliban takeover, advocates say

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Mourners carry the body of a victim of a mosque bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 18. 2022. A bombing at a mosque in Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded over two dozen, an eyewitness and police said. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Police: Death toll in Afghan capital mosque bombing now 21

By Rahim Faiez and Ebrahim Noroozi - Associated Press

Illegal Afghan Aliens and fast-tracking citizenship Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Why are lawmakers trying to fast-track citizenship for Afghans we can’t properly vet?

By Dan Stein

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2021, file photo, Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. On the eve of the anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan's former president on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, defended what he said was a split-second decision to flee, saying he wanted to avoid the humiliation of surrender to the insurgents. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi, File)

Afghanistan marks 1 year since Taliban seizure as woes mount

By Rahim Faiez and Ebrahim Noroozi - Associated Press

In this image provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Air Force aircrew, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, assist qualified evacuees boarding a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2021. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Afghanistan chaos: GOP report reveals new details of Biden administration’s disastrous withdrawal

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Arefeh 40-year-old, an Afghan woman leaves an underground school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 30, 2022. She attends this underground school with her daughter who is not allowed to go to public school. For most teenage girls in Afghanistan, it’s been a year since they set foot in a classroom. With no sign the ruling Taliban will allow them back to school, some girls and parents are trying to find ways to keep education from stalling for a generation of young women. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Timeline of events in Afghanistan since Taliban takeover

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A Taliban fighter stands guard in the Shiite neighborhood of Dasht-e-Barchi, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban’s Afghanistan goes back to the future one year after U.S. leaves

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters stand guard in front of the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. withdrawal in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 31, 2021. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi, File)

One year after Afghan war, Biden struggles to find footing

By Aamer Madhani - Associated Press

In this Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021 file photo, a U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghanistan is the unhappiest country in the world — even before the Taliban swept to power last August. That's according to a so-called World Happiness report released, Saturday, March 19, 2022 ahead of the U.N.-designated International Day of Happiness on Sunday. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Al Qaeda leader’s death renews debate over hasty U.S. Afghanistan withdrawal

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

Afghan women wait to receive cash at a money distribution point organized by the World Food Program, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Nov. 20, 2021. The lives of Afghan women and girls are being destroyed by the Taliban’s crackdown on their human rights, said Amnesty International in a new report Wednesday, July 27, 2022. The London-based watchdog criticized Taliban authorities saying that since the Taliban took control of the country in August 2021, they have violated women’s and girls’ rights to education, work and free movement. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Amnesty: Taliban crackdown on rights is ‘suffocating’ women

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghanistan quake kills 1,000 people, deadliest in decades

By Fazel Rahman Faizi - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations distributed by a South Koren humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 10, 2022. Afghanistan is expected 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will face malnutrition in the country by the end of this year, as hospitals wards are packed with sick children for sever hunger and malnutrition. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Indian officials hold 1st talks with Taliban in Afghanistan

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Illustration in remembrance of the last 13 fallen soldiers in Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Honoring the 13 fallen heroes in Afghanistan

By Scott Walker

An injured man is transported to a hospital after a bombing in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, May 25, 2022. A series of explosions shook Afghanistan on Wednesday, the Taliban said, including a blast inside a mosque in the capital of Kabul that killed at least five worshippers and three bombings of minivans in the country's north that killed nine passengers. (AP Photo/Masih Paeiz)

Blast in Kabul mosque, ISIS bombs in north Afghanistan kill 14

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Burqa-clad women walk on Nadir Khan hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan on March 16, 2017. Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers on Saturday, May 7, 2022 ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public, a sharp hard-line pivot that confirmed the worst fears of rights activists and was bound to further complicate Taliban dealings with an already distrustful international community. (AP Photo)

Afghanistan’s Taliban order women to cover up head to toe

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A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, April 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Explosion in north Afghanistan kills at least 10, injures 40

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