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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

FILE - Sima Samar, a prominent activist and physician, who has been fighting for women's rights in Afghanistan for the past 40 years, gives an interview to The Associated Press, at her house in Kabul, Afghanistan, on March 6, 2021. A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Afghan rights leader heartbroken after year of Taliban rule

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Sara, a 14-year-old, an Afghan girl, sits on a grave and reads a book as she waits for customers to sell water at a cemetery, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 30, 2022. 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)

Afghan girls face uncertain future after 1 year of no school

By Rahim Faiez and Siddiqullah Alizai - Associated Press

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

Associated Press

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

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

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)

U.S. kills al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri in drone strike

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

Acting head of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Markus Potzel, speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, July 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

U.N. slams killings, rights abuses under Afghanistan’s Taliban

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Zabiullah Mujahid, left, the spokesman for the Taliban government, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 30, 2022. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers held a gathering Thursday of some 3,000 Islamic clerics and tribal elders for the first time since seizing power in August, urging them to advise them on running the country. Women were not allowed to attend. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Afghan clerics’ assembly urges recognition of Taliban govt

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., left, and Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., listen as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol continues to reveal its findings of a year-long investigation, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Rep. Adam Kinzinger stupidly calls out ‘Christian Taliban’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Afghans stand among destruction after an earthquake in Gayan village, in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Thursday, June 23, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi)

Afghans bury dead, dig for survivors after quake kills 1,000

By Ebrahim Noroozi - Associated Press

German Foreign Minster Annalena Baerbock briefs the media about Germany's Afghanistan policy at the Foreign Ministry during a news conference in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, June 23, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Germany says it helped 21,000 people get out of Afghanistan

By Kirsten Grieshaber - Associated Press

Afghan militiamen join Afghan defense and security forces during a gathering in Kabul, Afghanistan, on June 23, 2021. A new report says decisions by Presidents Donald Trump and Joe Biden to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan were the key factors in the collapse of that nation's military, leading to the Taliban takeover last year. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

UN: Taliban faces threat from Islamic State, new resistance

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Taliban eradicate a poppy field in Washir, district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 29, 2022. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have begun a campaign to eradicate poppy cultivation, aiming to wipe out the country's massive production of opium and heroin, even as farmers fear their livelihoods will be ruined at a time of growing poverty. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq)

Afghan Taliban launch campaign to eradicate poppy crop

By Abdul Khaliq - 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

Associated Press

United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of Human Rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, speaks during a news conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, May 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN official expresses concern on rights in Afghanistan

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

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

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Acting Deputy Prime Minister of the Afghan Taliban's caretaker government, speaks during a document signing ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. The Taliban said Tuesday that they've signed a deal allowing Abu Dhabi-based GAAC Solutions to manage the airports in Herat, Kabul and Kandahar. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban say deal signed with UAE firm to manage airports

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press