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Afghan men bury a victim of deadly bombings on Saturday near a school, at a cemetery west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 9, 2021. The Interior Ministry said Sunday the death toll in the horrific bombing at the entrance to a girls' school in the Afghan capital has soared to some 50 people, many of them pupils between 11 and 15 years old, and the number of wounded in Saturday's attack has also climbed to more than 100. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Afghan Taliban announce 3-day cease-fire for Muslim holiday

By RAHIM FAIEZ and KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Afghan men bury a victim of deadly bombings on Saturday near a school, west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, May 9, 2021. The Interior Ministry said Sunday the death toll in the horrific bombing at the entrance to a girls' school in the Afghan capital has soared to some 50 people, many of them pupils between 11 and 15 years old, and the number of wounded in Saturday's attack has also climbed to more than 100. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

Death toll soars to 50 in school bombing in Afghan capital

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan school students treated at a hospital after a bomb explosion near a school in west of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 8, 2021. A bomb exploded near a school in west Kabul on Saturday, killing several, many them young students, Afghan government spokesmen said. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Bomb kills at least 30 near girls’ school in Afghan capital

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley speaks during a briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) **FILE**

Gen. Mark Milley: Taliban victory after U.S. troop pullout is not ‘preordained’

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 21, 2019 file photo, a doctor briefs the mother of a malnourished child on how to feed her baby in a ward at Indira Gandhi hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan. After nearly 20 years since the ouster of the Taliban and hundreds of millions of dollars spent on infrastructure and aid, many Afghan women still have poor access to health facilities and providers, Human Rights Watch said Thursday, May 6, 2021 in its latest report. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool, File)

Rights report: State of Afghan women’s health care grim

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

A U.S. flag is lowered as American and Afghan soldiers attend a handover ceremony from the U.S. Army to the Afghan National Army, at Camp Anthonic, in Helmand province, southern Afghanistan, Sunday, May 2, 2021. (Afghan Ministry of Defense Press Office via AP)

Amid US pullout, Taliban issue threat to Afghan journalists

By KATHY GANNON and TAMEEM AKHGAR - Associated Press

In this Jan. 15, 2018, photo, U.S. Marines watch during the change of command ceremony at Task Force Southwest military field in Shorab military camp of Helmand province, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini) **FILE**

U.S. base in Afghanistan hit by rocket fire as troops begin withdrawal

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

$Abdullah Abdullah, Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation gives an interview to The Associated Press at the Sapidar Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Afghanistan's chief peace negotiator says the often fractured Afghan political leadership must unify or risk the withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops that has officially begun bringing more bitter fighting. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)$

AP INTERVIEW: Peace chief says Afghan gov’t must step up

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 23, 2015 file photo, a U.S. service member salutes her fallen comrades during a memorial ceremony for six Airmen killed in a suicide attack, at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. ter 20 years America is ending its “forever” war in Afghanistan. There’s conflicting views even among U. S. military minds as to whether the time is right. For others there is another lingering question: Was it worth it? (Tech. Sgt. Robert Cloys/U.S. Air Force via AP)

EXPLAINER: What remains as US ends Afghan ‘forever war’

By KATHY GANNON - Associated Press

Sultana Karimi applies makeup on a customer at Ms. Sadat’s Beauty Salon in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, April 25, 2021. Kabul's young working women say they fear their dreams may be short-lived if the Taliban return to Kabul, even if peacefully as part of a new government. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Young women, grown up without Taliban, dread their return

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff speaks during a ceremony on Christmas Eve 2017 at a U.S. airfield in Bagram, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

EDITORIAL: Joe Biden Afghanistan exit is deal-breaking art

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Internally displaced tribal leader Dawlat Khan plays with his children and nephews in a house on the outskirts of Jalalabad, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. Khan fled his village of Pananzai with his six brothers and their families at the height of the battles against the Islamic State terror network. They're not rushing home, even though the family of 63 people is crammed into nine small rooms in Nangarhar's provincial capital of Jalalabad. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Islamic State degraded in Afghanistan but still poses threat

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Afghanistan Contractor Option Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

Biden’s remaining Afghanistan contractor option carries few risks

By Gary Anderson

An Afghan army soldier stands guard as smoke rises from a burning fuel tanker after a road accident on the Jalalabad-Kabul highway, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) ** FILE **

Afghanistan exit creates hurdles for counterterrorism operations

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Smoke blows from a burning vehicles at the site of bomb blast in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. A powerful bomb went off in the parking area of a five-star Serena hotel in the southwestern city of Quetta on Wednesday, wounding some people, police said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Bombing in hotel parking lot kills at least 4 in SW Pakistan

By ABDUL SATTAR AND MUNIR AHMED - Associated Press

An Afghan army soldier stands guard as smoke rises from a burning fuel tanker after a road accident on the Jalalabad-Kabul highway, east of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, April 21, 2021. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul) ** FILE **

China, neighbors weigh options and hedge bets as Biden prepares Afghan exit

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on the war in Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

U.S. chooses defeat in Afghanistan

By Clifford D. May

Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, second left, looks as members of the Taliban delegation arrive for attending an international peace conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool) ** FILE **

‘Grave doubts’ about whether Taliban can be trusted, says top U.S. general in Middle East

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - This Friday, March 19, 2021 file photo shows Mohammad Naeem, spokesman for the Taliban's political office, during a news conference in Moscow, Russia. In March 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave both the Taliban and the Afghan government an eight-page proposed peace plan, which they were to discuss, revise and review and come to Turkey ready to cobble together an agreement. But on Monday, April 12, 2021, Naeem said the religious militia won’t attend a peace conference tentatively planned for later in the week in Turkey, putting U.S. efforts to get a peace plan anytime soon in jeopardy. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

History As It Happens: Enter Taliban

By Martin Di Caro

The 2,500-plus U.S. troops remaining in Afghanistan face a period of maximum uncertainty and vulnerability in the next few months. The Pentagon may have to send more U.S. forces to the country, at least temporarily, to help speed the withdrawal. (Associated Press/File)

U.S. to monitor Afghanistan after troop withdrawal

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times