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Afghan wait to enter a bank, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Feb. 13, 2022. Six months since Kabul was ceded to the Taliban with the sudden and secret departure of U.S.-backed president residents say a calm has settled on the country, but the future is uncertain as the economy teeters on the verge of an economic collapse and the new Taliban rulers tackle the transition from war to relative peace. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Six months of Taliban: Afghans safer, poorer, less hopeful

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

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)

Taliban detains two journalists in Kabul, refugee agency says

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks about prescription drug costs at the Daniel Technology Center of Germanna Community College — Culpeper Campus, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2022, in Culpeper, Va. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Biden to split frozen Afghan funds for 9/11 victims, relief

By Aamer Madhani - 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

Taliban fighters ride atop a Humvee on the way to detain Afghans involved in a street fight in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 21, 2021. On Jan. 13, 2022, in Kabul, a Taliban security guard at a checkpoint opened fire on a car carrying a family home from a wedding, killing 25-year-old Zainab Abdullahi. The Taliban say it was a mix-up between guards. The Taliban are trying to keep discipline over thousands of young fighters who bring heavy handed methods of war into their new roles as security forces. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana, File)

Senate Republicans probe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, identify planning failures

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool via AP) **FILE**

Republicans fume after closed-door hearing on Afghan pullout

By Ben Wolfgang and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

FILE - Afghan girls participate a lesson at Tajrobawai Girls High School, in Herat, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. The Taliban say they have reopened public universities for women students in six of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022, a move marking a major concession to international demands by the country’s new rulers. Women have been banned from many jobs outside the health and teaching sector since the Taliban takeover, and girls have not been able to go to school after grade six. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)

Taliban reopen universities for Afghan women in 6 provinces

By Tameem Akhgar - Associated Press

A boy looks as an Afghan fighter rides in the back of a vehicle during a police patrol in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. The Taliban are promising a return of some of their harsh punishments that made them notorious. That has many Afghans afraid, but some also say they are giving the Taliban a chance if it means greater stability and fewer corrupt officials reaching into their pockets. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

U.N.: 100 ex-Afghan officials, security forces killed since Taliban takeover

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

U.S. Special Envoy to Afghanistan Thomas West, left, speaks to Sayed Ishaq Gailani, center, founder and chairman of the National Solidarity Movement of Afghanistan, ahead of a meeting, in Oslo, Norway, Monday, Jan. 24, 2022. Western diplomats are meeting with Afghan women’s rights activists and human rights defenders in Oslo ahead of the first official talks with the Taliban in Europe since the Taliban took over in August. (Stian Lysberg Solum/NTB via AP)

Taliban hold first talks in Europe since Afghan takeover

By David Keyton - Associated Press

Representatives of the Taliban arrive in Gardermoen, Norway, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2022. A Taliban delegation has traveled to Norway for talks. It will meet with representatives of the Norwegian authorities and several allied countries but also with civil society activists and human rights defenders from Afghanistan. (Terje Bendiksby/NTB Scanpix via AP)

Taliban talks in Norway raise new debate about recognition

By David Keyton - Associated Press

A-29 Super Tucano planes are on display during a handover from the NATO-led Resolute Support mission to the Afghan army at the military Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 17, 2020. A year-old report by Washingtons Afghanistan watchdog warned in early 2021, months before President Joe Biden announced the end to America's longest war, the Afghan air force would collapse without critical U.S. aid, training and American maintenance. The report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko was classified back when it was written and only declassified on Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Watchdog agency warned of Afghan Air Force collapse long before U.S. withdrawal

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022. Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are aiming to restart education for girls and women by late March, the government's chief spokesman told The Associated Press in an interview, offering the first-ever timeline for addressing a key demand of the international community. (AP Photo/Mohammed Shoaib Amin).

Taliban pledge all girls in schools soon

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Sanam, a bacha posh, a girl living as a boy, sits next to her mother and father during an interview in their house, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Dec. 7, 2021. In the heavily patriarchal, male-dominated society of Afghanistan, where women and girls are usually relegated to the home, there is one tradition which allows girls access to the male world: Bacha posh. A girl dresses, behaves and is treated as a boy, allowing her to play and to work as a boy would be able to do. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov)

Afghan tradition allows girls to access the freedom of boys

By Mstyslav Chernov and Elena Becatoros - Associated Press

Hundreds of Afghan men gather to apply for the humanitarian aid in Qala-e-Naw, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2021. In a statement Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, the White House announced $308 million in additional humanitarian assistance for Afghanistan, offering new aid to the country as it edges toward a humanitarian crisis since the Taliban takeover nearly five months earlier. (AP Photo/Mstyslav Chernov, File)

U.S. to provide $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan as Taliban gov’t falters

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times

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

Then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is seated after his meeting with U.S. President Joe Biden in Washington, June 25, 2021. In an interview aired by the BBC on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021, Afghanistan's former president recounts his final hours in office, says he had just minutes to decide to flee and denies an agreement was in the works for a peaceful takeover, disputing accounts of former government officials, Taliban and even a former U.S. negotiator. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) **FILE**

Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani breaks silence, defends decision to flee

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

A U.S. Chinook helicopter flies over the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Aug. 15, 2021. Helicopters landed at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul as diplomatic vehicles left the compound amid the Taliban advance on the Afghan capital. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Afghanistan anti-Taliban resistance begs for U.S. support, gets nothing from Biden

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Hawa Alam Nuristani, chief of Election Commission of Afghanistan, center, speaks during a press conference at the Independent Election Commission office in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2020. The Afghan Independent Election Commission said Tuesday that President Ashraf Ghani has won a second term as president. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Taliban-run government dissolves Afghan election commissions

Associated Press