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In front of a Taliban flag, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks at at his first news conference, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 17, 2021. For years, Mujahid had been a shadowy figure issuing statements on behalf of the militants. 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)

Taliban plot next steps as U.S. retreat accelerates

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug.16. 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto an American military jet as it took off and plunged to death. (Verified UGC via AP)

Chaos on the ground, uncertainty on what’s to come in Afghanistan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane, some climbing on the plane, as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug.16. 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac at the airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto the American military jet as it took off and plunged to death. (Verified UGC via AP)

‘Promises are being broken’ as U.S. strands Afghan allies

By Stephen Dinan and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Passengers trying to fly out of Kabul International Airport amid the Taliban offensive wait in line in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. As a Taliban offensive squeezes in on the gates of the Afghan capital, there's increasingly only one way out for those fleeing the war and one way in for the U.S. troops tasked with backing the American diplomats still on the ground: Kabul's international airport. (AP Photo/Tameem Akghar)

Afghan woman in limbo at Kabul airport after Taliban sweep

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi)

Taliban seek to project calm as U.S. speeds chaotic evacuation

By Ahmad Seir, Rahim Faiez, Kathy Gannon and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Taliban fighters take control of Afghan presidential palace after the Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi)

‘Blood on his hands’: Biden under fire over collapse in Afghanistan

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Ministry of Defence on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021, members of the 16 Air Assault Brigade arrive in Kabul as part of a 600-strong UK-force sent to assist with Operation PITTING to rescue British nationals in Afghanistan amidst the worsening security situation there. (Leading Hand Ben Shread/Ministry of Defence via AP)

Rapid Afghanistan collapse leaves U.S. scrambling to evacuate personnel

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Taliban fighters entered the outskirts of the Afghan capital on Sunday, further tightening their grip on the country as panicked workers fled government offices and helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Ghani flees Afghanistan, U.S. diplomats burn documents as Taliban enter Kabul

By Ben Wolfgang and Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 2, 2021, file photo Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about refugee programs for Afghans who aided the U.S., during a briefing at the State Department in Washington. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool via AP, File)

Blinken: Biden admin ‘inherited’ Afghan situation from Trump

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Members of the Taliban, left, drive with other motorists through city of Herat, Afghanistan, west of Kabul, Saturday, Aug. 14, 2021, after the province was taken from the Afghan government. (AP Photo/Hamed Sarfarazi)

Biden sending 1,000 more troops to Afghanistan

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Internally displaced Afghans from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, take refuge in a public park Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. The Taliban have completed their sweep of the country's south on Friday, as they took four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban capture key northern city, approach Afghan capital

By Tameem Akhgar and Rahim Faiez and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard over surrendered Afghan security member forces in the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. The Taliban have completed their sweep of the countrys south on Friday, as they took four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war. (AP Photo/Gulabuddin Amiri)

Taliban sweep across Afghanistan’s south, take 4 more cities

By Tameem Akhgar, Rahim Faiez and Joseph Krauss - Associated Press

Illustration on the fate of Afghanistan by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

Who’s to blame for America’s defeat in Afghanistan?

By Jed Babbin

Taliban fighters patrol inside the city of Ghazni, southwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. The Taliban have completed their sweep of the country’s south on Friday, as they took four more provincial capitals in a lightning offensive that is gradually encircling Kabul, just weeks before the U.S. is set to officially end its two-decade war. (AP Photo/Gulabuddin Amiri)

First U.S. troops arrive in Afghanistan to aid evacuation as Taliban advance

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Zarmina Kakar, a women's rights activist, cries during an interview with The Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 13, 2021. Kakar was a year old when the Taliban entered Kabul the first time in 1996, and recalled a time when her mother took her out to buy her ice cream, back when the Taliban ruled. Her mother was whipped by a Taliban fighter for revealing her face for a couple of minutes. “Today again, I feel that if Taliban come to power, we will return back to the same dark days,” she said. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Afghan women fear return to ‘dark days’ amid Taliban sweep

By Zeina Karam and Ahmad Seir - Associated Press

The Taliban delegation arrives for Afghan peace talks in Doha, Qatar, Thursday, Aug.12, 2021. (AP Photo/Hussein Sayed)

Pentagon braces for Kabul to fall to Taliban, sends thousands of troops to evacuate U.S. Embassy

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Internally displaced Afghans from northern provinces, who fled their home due to fighting between the Taliban and Afghan security personnel, take refuge in a public park in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban accelerate takeover, seize sixth provincial capital in Afghanistan, report says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters stand guard in Kunduz city, northern Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 9, 2021. The militants have ramped up their push across much of Afghanistan in recent weeks, turning their guns on provincial capitals after taking district after district and large swaths of land in the mostly rural countryside. (AP Photo/Abdullah Sahil)

Biden under fire over ‘meltdown’ of Afghan security forces, stunning Taliban victories

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Smoke rises from the city of Lashkar Gah after airstrikes against Taliban in Helmand province southern of Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Aug. 6, 2021. The Afghan air force carried out more airstrikes against Taliban positions in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, as the insurgent force made additional gains in the country's north. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

Afghan Taliban kill head of government media department

Associated Press

Afghan security personnel take a position during fighting between Taliban and Afghan security forces in Herat province, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021. In Herat, the capital of the province by the same name, Afghan forces appeared on Tuesday to be able to push the Taliban back, with the insurgents on the edge of the city. Also, Herat city's civilian airport reopened. (AP Photo/Hamed Sarfarazi)

Taliban ‘emboldened’ by its battlefield success in Afghanistan, U.S. envoy says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times