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Taliban fighters ride in a boat in the Qargha dam outside Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sept. 24, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

Biden eases sanctions on Afghanistan, allowing U.S. tax dollars to fund civil society programs

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., speaks to reporters as she walks out of a House Democratic Progressive Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

House Democrats demand Biden ease economic sanctions on the Taliban regime

By Haris Alic - The Washington Times

Afghan migrants Ali Rezaie, center, and Sayed Hamza trek through the French-Italian Alps to reach a migrant refuge in Briancon, France, Sunday, Dec. 12, 2021. When the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan in August, some Afghans resolved to escape and embarked on forbidding journeys of thousands of kilometers to Europe. Rezaie's odyssey through five countries has carried him high into the French-Italian Alps, where he is pushing through knee-deep snow to evade border guards. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole)

Afghans push through snowy Alps toward new lives in Europe

By John Leicester and Daniel Cole - Associated Press

The foreign minister in Afghanistan's new Taliban-run Cabinet, Amir Khan Muttaqi, gives a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. In an interview to the Associated Press, Mutaqqi said Afghanistan's new rulers are committed to education and jobs for girls and women, have learned lessons from their previous time in power and appeal to the world's "mercy and compassion" to help millions of Afghans in desperate need. (AP Photo/Muhammad Farooq, File)

Taliban seek ties with U.S., other ex-foes

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

FILE - In this Aug. 30, 2021 photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, an Air Force aircrew, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, prepares to receive soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the final noncombatant evacuation operation missions at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul Afghanistan. The Taliban, which is in need of foreign aid, has said it will allow people with valid travel papers to leave, and the international community says it will be monitoring to see if they keep their word. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP)

Taliban overlords punishing allies Biden abandoned

By Editorial Board - The Washington Times

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

A political mural by the Kabul street art group ArtLords depicts a heart rather than a gun in an Afghan's camel saddlebag, one of more than 2,000 public artworks the Taliban have destroyed since taking over Afghanistan in August. Some refugees from the group recreated one of the murals at a live art show in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, Dec. 3. (ArtLords/Women for Afghan Women)

Afghan refugees share painful stories in D.C. art show

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

An Afghan woman wearing a burka exits a small shop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. Women's rights activists in the Afghan capital of Kabul insisted Sunday they would continue fighting for their right to education, employment and participation in Afghan political and social life, and said a recent Taliban decree banning forced marriage was not enough to address the issue of women's rights. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Women activists call for more rights in Afghanistan

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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

An Afghan women wearing a burka, carries a carpet as she walks in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Dec, 2, 2021. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Taliban ban forced marriages of women in Afghanistan

Associated Press

FILE - In this photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, an Air Force aircrew, assigned to the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, prepares to receive soldiers, assigned to the 82nd Airborne Division, to board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in support of the final noncombatant evacuation operation missions at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Aug. 30, 2021. The U.S. airlifted 124,000 people out of Kabul over about six weeks as the American-backed Afghan military and government fell to the Taliban. (Senior Airman Taylor Crul/U.S. Air Force via AP, File)

What happened to the Afghanistan evacuation?

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

In this file photo taken on Oct. 26, 2016, Pakistan's Inam Khan, owner of a book shop shows a copy of a magazine with the photograph of Afghan refugee woman Sharbat Gulla, from his rare collection in Islamabad, Pakistan. National Geographic’s famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said Thursday. The office of Premier Mario Draghi said Italy had organized the evacuation of Sharbat Gulla after she asked to be helped to leave the country. The Italian government will now help to welcome her and get her integrated into life here, the statement said. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash, File)

‘Afghan Girl’ with green eyes from famous National Geographic cover portrait is evacuated to Italy

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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

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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

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

Taliban urge ex-Afghan military pilots to stay, serve nation

By Rahim Faiez - 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

Taliban fighters block roads after an explosion Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. An explosion went off Tuesday at the entrance of a military hospital in Kabul, killing severa; people and wounding over a dozen, health officials said. (AP Photo/Ahmad Halabisaz)

Blast near Kabul hospital kills 3, wounds 16, medics say

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In this file photo, Shiite Muslims participate in a demonstration to condemn Friday's deadly suicide bombing at the Fatimiya Mosque in the Afghan province of Kandahar, in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. A fact sheet released on Oct. 27 by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom found that members of minority Muslim religious communities in Afghanistan — as well as non-Muslims, atheists and converts to Christianity — are “at grave threat” under the Taliban’s rule. (AP Photo/Ikram Suri) **FILE**

Afghans have less religious liberty under new Taliban regime, U.S. watchdog group says

By Mark A. Kellner - 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

Taliban fighters stand guard during women's protest in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Ahmad Halabisaz) ** FILE **

‘Plan Z’: With Afghanistan lost, U.S. weighs help from Taliban, adversaries in terror fight

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times