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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. An Afghan police spokesman says explosions targeting educational institutions in Kabul have killed at least six civilians and injured over 10 others. Khalid Zadran said Tuesday the blasts occurred in the mostly-Shiite Muslim area in the west of Afghanistan's capital. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Blasts near Kabul schools kill at least 6 civilians, hurt 17

By Mohammad Shoaib Amin - Associated Press

Afghan girls participate in a lesson at Tajrobawai Girls High School in Herat, Afghanistan, on Nov. 25, 2021. In a surprise decision the hardline leadership of Afghanistan's new rulers has decided against opening educational institutions to girls beyond Grade six, a Taliban official said Wednesday, March 23, 2022, on the first day of Afghanistan's new school year. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Taliban cancels girls’ higher education despite pledges

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - Afghan girls students attend school classes in a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 27, 2021. Schools for all students will open this week, Afghanistan's Taliban-run Education Ministry announced Monday, March 21, 2022 the clearest sign yet that girls will be back in school. Girls have been denied education beyond Grade 6 since the Taliban swept back to power in August 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Taliban announcement a clear sign girls returning to school

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

An Afghan boy flies a kite on hilltop overlooking Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Stranded by U.S., Afghan allies wonder if helping was a ‘mistake’

By Stephen Dinan - 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 **

GOP presses Biden administration on Afghan evacuees amid new terrorism concerns

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Afghan refugee girls watch a soccer game from a distance near the Village at the Fort McCoy U.S. Army base on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021 in Fort McCoy, Wis. The fort is one of eight military installations across the country that are temporarily housing the tens of thousands of Afghans who were forced to flee their homeland in August after the U.S. withdrew its forces from Afghanistan and the Taliban took control. (Barbara Davidson/Pool Photo via AP)

State Department nixed interviews for Afghan allies seeking evacuation

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Afghanistan's former President Hamid Karzai, speaks during a press conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. Karzai called a White House order freeing $3.5 billion in Afghan assets for America's 9/11 families &quot;an atrocity against the Afghan people.&quot; He also sought the help of Americans, and in particular the families of the thousands killed on 9/11, to press the White House to rescind last week's order which he said was both &quot;unjust and unfair.&quot; (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Ex-Afghan president: Biden order on frozen funds an atrocity

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Taliban fighters walk at the frozen Qargha Lake, near Kabul, Afghanistan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Feb. 11, 2022. The Taliban have detained two foreign journalists on assignment with the U.N. refugee agency and a number of its Afghan staff working in the country's capital, UNHCR said Friday. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

UN: Foreign journalists, Afghan staff detained by Taliban

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Pakistani mother Shahana with her husband Ajoon Khan sit next to photos of their son Asfand Khan, who was killed in a 2014 assault by Pakistani Taliban militants on an army public school, during an interview with The Associated Press, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 29, 2021. Each year on Jan. 17 Shahana bakes a cake and invites friends to her home to sing happy birthday, even light a candle but it's a birthday without the birthday boy, she says. (AP Photo/Muhammad Sajjad)

Afghan Taliban turn blind eye to Pakistani militants

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Haseena Niazi, a 24-year-old from Afghanistan, poses outside her home, Friday, Dec. 17, 2021, north of Boston. Niazi received a letter from the federal government denying her fiancé's humanitarian parole application earlier in the month. Her fiance, who she asked not to be named over concerns about his safety, had received threats from Taliban members for working on women's health issues at a hospital north of Kabul. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

Hundreds of Afghans denied humanitarian entry into U.S.

By Philip Marcelo and Amy Taxin - Associated Press

Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, the former Foreign Secretary, arrives ahead of the government's weekly Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, in London, Tuesday, Dec. 7, 2021. Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned many of the nation’s allies in Afghanistan and left them to the mercy of the Taliban during the fall of the capital, Kabul, because of a dysfunctional and arbitrary evacuation effort, whistleblower Raphael Marshall alleged Tuesday. (Aaron Chown/PA via AP)

Whistleblower: As Afghanistan fell, UK abandoned supporters

By Danica Kirka - Associated Press

Taliban fighters and Afghan men pray in Kamar Kalagh village near Herat, Afghanistan, Saturday , Nov. 27, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Taliban deny targeted killings of officials linked to U.S.-backed government

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Muhammad Farooq, File)

Taliban: Bomb hits mosque in Afghanistan, wounds at least 15

Associated Press

Gul Mohammed, who works as a host in the Ariana Cinema, poses for a photograph in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021. After seizing power three months ago, the Taliban ordered cinemas to stop operating.(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Now silent under Taliban, a Kabul cinema awaits its fate

By Lee Keath and Bram Janssen - Associated Press

Shola Yawari, left, and her teenage daughter Asma Yawari pose for photos at their home in Aurora, Ill., Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021. Asma Yawari has built a close friendship with her younger cousin in Afghanistan through phone calls and text messages. Since the Taliban takeover, both Asma and her mother worry for their relative's future, amid uncertainty over her access to school and ability to pursue her interests and passions. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Afghan girls, faraway relatives worry over dreams disrupted

By Mariam Fam and Noreen Nasir - Associated Press

In this Aug. 21, 2021,file photo provided by the U.S. Marines, U.S. Marines with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force - Crisis Response - Central Command, provide assistance at an evacuation control checkpoint during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via AP, File)

Watchdog: State Dept. sought ‘wholesale’ redactions of Afghanistan reports

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 22, 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, Afghan passengers board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (MSgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Force via AP) **FILE**

Biden admin. doubles estimate of Americans left behind in Afghanistan

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this May 20, 2021, file photo, Special Representative for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad speaks during a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Khalilzad is stepping down following the chaotic American withdrawal from the country. The State Department says former ambassador to the United Nations and Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad will leave the post this week after more than three years on the job. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

U.S. envoy to Afghanistan under Trump, Biden quits

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

An Afghan man inspects the inside of a mosque following a suicide bombers attack in the city of Kandahar, southwest Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 15, 2021. Suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in southern Afghanistan that was packed with worshippers attending Friday prayers, killing several people and wounding others, according to a hospital official and a witness. (AP Photo/Sidiqullah Khan)

Suicide attack on Shiite mosque in Afghanistan kills at least 32

By Samya Kullab and Tameem Akhgar - Associated Press

Blood stains the compound outside a mosque following a bombing in Kunduz province, northern Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021. A powerful explosion in a mosque frequented by a Muslim religious minority in northern Afghanistan on Friday has left several casualties, witnesses and the Taliban's spokesman said. (AP Photo/Abdullah Sahil)

Taliban official: At least 100 dead, wounded in Afghan blast

By Samya Kullab and Tameem Akhgar - Associated Press