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Basira Joya, 20, presenter of the news program sits during recording at the Zan TV station (women's TV) in Kabul, Afghanistan, May 30, 2017. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers ordered all female presenters on TV channels to cover their faces on air, the country's biggest media outlet said Thursday, May 19, 2022. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghan Taliban order women TV anchors to cover their faces

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Hasibullah Hasrat, 29, is interviewed at his apartment, in Hyattsville, Md., Wednesday, May 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Afghans still adjusting to U.S.: New life, new struggles

By Ben Fox, Jacquelyn Martin and Julie Watson - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard as two women enter the government passport office, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 27, 2022. .Afghanistan's Taliban leadership has ordered all Afghan women to wear the all-covering burqa in public. The decree Saturday, May 7, evoked similar restrictions on women during the Taliban's previous hard-line rule between 1996 and 2001. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Norway slams Afghan Taliban edict demanding women cover up

By Jan M. Olsen - 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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In this undated photo from an unknown location, released in 2016, the leader of the Afghanistan Taliban Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada poses for a portrait. Senior Afghan leaders are in the Middle Eastern state of Qatar talking peace with the Taliban, whose leader, Akhundzada, on Sunday, July 18, 2021, issued a statement saying the insurgent movement wants a political settlement to Afghanistan’s decades of war. (Afghan Islamic Press via AP, File)

Reclusive Taliban supreme leader hails ‘victory’ in speech marking Muslim Eid holiday

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A wounded man receives treatment in a hospital, after a bombing in Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Thursday, April 28, 2022. Two explosions, within minutes of each other, killed at least nine people and wounded 13 in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, a spokesman for a Taliban-appointed police chief said. (AP Photo)

IS claims bombing targeting Shiites in north Afghanistan

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FILE - This frame grab image from video, shows a Taliban fighter standing guard outside the site of a bomb explosion inside a mosque, in Mazar-e-Sharif province, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 21, 2022. A deadly Islamic State affiliate on Friday, April 22, 2022, claimed a series of bombings a day earlier that targeted Afghanistan’s minority Shiite Muslims, while Pakistan issued a warning of IS threats in its eastern Punjab province. (AP Photo, File)

Death toll in Afghan mosque bombing rises to 33, Taliban say

By Kathy Gannon and Mohammad Shaob Amin - Associated Press

Afghanistan Hunger Catastrophe Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Can anything be done about the looming catastrophe in Afghanistan?

By Ron MacCammon

Wolayat Khan Samadzoi watches through the open balcony door of his apartment for the sliver of new moon to appear in the cloudless sky, where the sun had set beyond a desert mountain, in Las Cruces, N.M., Saturday, April 2, 2022. Samadzoi and thousands of other Afghans evacuated to the United States as the Taliban regained power last summer are celebrating their first Muslim holy month of Ramadan here – grateful to be safe, but agonizing over their families back home under the repressive Taliban regime. (AP Photo/Giovanna Dell'Orto)

Afghan evacuees mark first U.S. Ramadan with gratitude, agony

By Giovaana Dell'Orto and Mariam Fam - Associated Press

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, poses for photos with Amir Khan Muttaqi, acting foreign minister of the Afghan Taliban's caretaker government, in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 24, 2022. Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Thursday, March 31, 2022 issued strong backing for Afghanistan at a regional conference, while making no mention of human rights abuses by the country's Taliban leaders. (Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua via AP)

China’s Xi strongly backs Afghanistan at regional conference

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In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, right, stands next to Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, acting deputy prime minister of the Afghan Taliban's caretaker government, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, March 24, 2022. China's ambitions to play a major hand in Afghan stability and economic development under the Taliban, while boosting its own regional stature, will be on display at a pair of multinational meetings it is hosting from Wednesday. (Saifurahman Safi/Xinhua via AP, File)

China’s Afghan ambitions on show at multinational meetings

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FILE - In this photograph made on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010 in Mes Aynak valley, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Buddha statues are seen inside an ancient temple. The valley is the world's second-largest unexploited copper estimated to be worth nearly $1 trillion. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic, File)

With eye to China investment, Taliban now preserve Buddhas

By Samya Kullab - Associated Press

Afghan women chant and hold signs of protest during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 26, 2022. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers refused to allow dozens of women to board several flights, including some overseas, because they were traveling without a male guardian, two Afghan airline officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Mohammed Shoaib Amin)

Officials: Taliban blocked unaccompanied women from flights

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - Afghan students leave school classes in a primary school in Kabul, Afghanistan on March 27, 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/Rahmat Gul, File)

Female ministers urge Taliban to rethink decision on girls

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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

Afghan journalist Madina Morwat, checks her mobile at TOLO TV newsroom, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022. A December survey jointly carried out by Reporters Without Borders and the Afghan Independent Journalist Association, reported &quot;a total of 231 media outlets have had to close and more than 6,400 journalists have lost their jobs&quot;, since the Taliban's August arrival in the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Taliban detain journalists over report on TV show censoring

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Taliban acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, right, reviews new Afghan police recruits during a graduation ceremony at the police academy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, March 5, 2022. Taliban acting Interior Minister Sirajuddin Haqqani, a designated terrorist by the U.S., said fighters guilty of &quot;misconduct&quot; were being penalized after a string of abuse allegations, in a rare public appearance on Saturday. (AP Photo)

Taliban official wanted by U.S. makes rare public appearance

By Samya Kullab and Tameem Akhgar - Associated Press

Afghan refugee Mozhgan Entazari, right, talks about the challenge to find proper housing for her family in Southern California, during an interview at a hotel lobby in Irvine, Calif., Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022. Entazari, 34, said it took four months to find a home. On Sunday, they will move into a five-bedroom house in Corona, about 50 miles southeast of Los Angeles, that is renting for $4,000. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

Afghans resettling in U.S. struggle to find affordable housing

By Matthew Barakat, Amy Taxin and Philip Marcelo and Julie Watson - Associated Press

Afghan refugees walk through an Afghan refugee camp at Joint Base McGuire Dix Lakehurst, N.J., on Sept. 27, 2021. The last of thousands of Afghan refugees who awaited resettlement at eight U.S. military installations departed from the New Jersey base on Saturday, Feb. 19, 2022. They are completing a journey that started with the chaotic evacuation from Kabul in August. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

DHS has now released all 76,000 Afghan evacuees from military bases into U.S.

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times