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Afghan firefighters extinguish vehicles on fire after an attack at the main gate of International Hamed Karzai Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 10, 2015. At a time when Americans are deeply divided along party lines, a new poll shows agreement on at least one issue: The United States' two-decade-long war in Afghanistan was not worth fighting. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Republicans and Democrats agree that the Afghanistan war wasn’t worth it, an AP-NORC poll shows

By Linley Sanders and Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

An Afghan girl cries in front of her house that was destroyed by the earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023. Another strong earthquake shook western Afghanistan on Wednesday morning after an earlier one killed more than 2,000 people and flattened whole villages in Herat province in what was one of the most destructive quakes in the country's recent history. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

More than 90% of people killed by western Afghanistan quake were women and children, U.N. says

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Afghan people carry the body of a relative killed in an earthquake to a burial site after an earthquake in Zenda Jan district in Herat province, western of Afghanistan, Sunday, Oct. 8, 2023. Powerful earthquakes killed at least 2,000 people in western Afghanistan, a Taliban government spokesman said Sunday. It's one of the deadliest earthquakes to strike the country in two decades. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Senior Taliban officials visit province struck by earthquake that killed at least 2,000 people

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan families wait to board into a bus to depart for their homeland, in Karachi, Pakistan, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. Pakistan's government announced a major crackdown Tuesday on migrants in the country illegally, saying it would expel them starting next month and raising alarm among foreigners without documentation who include an estimated 1.7 million Afghans. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

U.N. warns Pakistan that forcibly deporting Afghans could lead to severe human rights violations

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

In this photo provided by District Police Office, injured victims of bomb explosion are treated at a hospital, in Mastung near Quetta, Pakistan, Friday, Sept. 29, 2023. A powerful bomb exploded at a rally celebrating the birthday of Islam's Prophet Muhammad in southwest Pakistan on Friday, killing multiple people and wounding dozens of others, police and a government official said. (District Police Office via AP)

Dozens dead after blast in southwestern Pakistan at a rally celebrating birthday of Islam’s prophet

By Abdul Sattar - Associated Press

Afghan women wait to receive food rations distributed by a humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, May 23, 2023. The mental health of Afghan women, who have suffered under harsh measures imposed by the Taliban since taking power two years ago, has deteriorated across the country, according to a joint report from three U.N. agencies released Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

As mental health worsens among Afghanistan’s women, the U.N. is asked to declare ‘gender apartheid’

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Evacuees from Afghanistan wait with other evacuees to fly to the United States or another safe location in a makeshift departure gate inside a hanger at the United States Air Base in Ramstein, Germany, Sept. 1, 2021. The Afghan man who speaks only Farsi represented himself in U.S. immigration court, and the judge denied him asylum. The Associated Press obtained a transcript of the hearing that offers a rare look inside an opaque and overwhelmed immigration court system where hearings are closed and judges are under pressure to move quickly given the backlog of 2 million cases. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber, File)

He spoke no English, had no lawyer: Afghan man’s case offers a glimpse into U.S. immigration court

By Julie Watson - Associated Press

A volunteer holds up country's sign for Afghan men's only team during a welcoming ceremony at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China, Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. In the first Asian Games since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan, two teams of athletes are arriving in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, looking very different. One, sent from Afghanistan where women are now banned by the Taliban from participating in sports, consists of about 130 all-male athletes, a Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Afghanistan’s Olympic Committee told The Associated Press. Another, competing under the black, red and green flag of the elected government the Taliban toppled in 2021, is drawn from the diaspora of Afghan athletes around the world, and includes 17 women. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte, File)

Taliban send all-male team to Asian Games but Afghan women come from outside

By David Rising - Associated Press

U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Turk, speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, on Aug. 9, 2023. The United Nations said Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023, it has documented more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations committed by authorities in Afghanistan during arrests and detentions of people, and urged the Taliban government to stop torture and protect the rights of detainees. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

U.N. urges Afghanistan’s Taliban government to stop torture and protect the rights of detainees

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan girls attend a religious school, which remained open since the last year's Taliban takeover, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 11, 2022. Two years after the Taliban banned girls from school beyond sixth grade, Afghanistan is the only country in the world with restrictions on female education. Now, the rights of Afghan women and children are on the agenda of the United Nations General Assembly Monday, Sept. 18, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

2 years ago, the Taliban banned girls from school. It’s a worsening crisis for all Afghans

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

In this handout photo released by the Taliban Prime Minister Media Office, China's new ambassador to Afghanistan Zhao Sheng meets with Taliban Prime Minister Mohammad Hasan Akhund during the recognition ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023. The Taliban on Wednesday greeted China's new ambassador to Afghanistan with pomp and ceremony, calling the envoy's nomination a significant step with a significant message. (Taliban Prime Minister Media Office via AP)

Taliban hail China’s new ambassador with fanfare, say it’s a sign for others to establish relations

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Taliban mark the second anniversary of their takeover of the country in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. AP Photo/Siddiqullah Alizai)

The Taliban have waged a systematic assault on freedom in Afghanistan, says U.N. human rights chief

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In this photo released by Pakistan's President Office, President Arif Alvi, right, administrates oath from Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar as caretaker Prime Minister during a ceremony, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Aug. 14, 2023. Kakar was sworn in as the country's prime minister to head a caretaker national government that will oversee parliamentary elections amid one of the worst economic crises the Islamic nation has faced, officials said. (Pakistan President Office vis AP)

Pakistani premier claims U.S. military equipment left behind in Afghanistan is now in militant hands

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Alicia Lopez, mother of Marine Corps Cpl. Hunter Lopez, an Abbey Gate Gold Star family member, reaches to touch the photograph of her son, after a House Foreign Affairs Committee roundtable, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2023 in Washington. Thirteen U.S. service members were killed, and 45 more wounded, in the terrorist attack at the Hamid Karzai International Airport's Abbey Gate on Aug. 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Gold Star families seek justice, closure; haunting questions linger after airport terror attack

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters patrol on the road during a celebration marking the second anniversary of the withdrawal of U.S.-led troops from Afghanistan, in Kandahar, south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023. More than 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have taken place since the Taliban took over the country two years ago, according to a U.N. report released Tuesday, Aug. 22. The most targeted groups have been former army, police and intelligence forces, according to the report from the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Abdul Khaliq, file)

More than 200 former Afghan officials and security forces killed since Taliban takeover, U.N. says

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Gordon Brown, United Nations Special Envoy for Global Education and former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, holds a news conference at U.N. headquarters, on Sept. 16, 2016. Brown told a virtual U.N. press conference on the second anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan on Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2023, that its rulers are responsible for “the most egregious, vicious and indefensible violation of women’s rights and girls’ rights in the world today.” (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

U.N. envoy says ICC should prosecute Taliban for crimes against humanity for denying girls education

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Taliban flags fly at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sept. 9, 2021. Two years on from the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the United States has begun easing rules that could allow commercial airlines to fly over the country in routes that cut time and burn fuel for East-West travel. But those flights shortening routes for India and Southeast Asia raise questions never answered during the Taliban's previous rule from the 1990s to the months after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue, File)

Who wants to fly over Taliban-held Afghanistan? New FAA rules allow it, but planes largely avoid it

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

File - Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

The Taliban are entrenched in Afghanistan after 2 years of rule. Women and girls pay the price

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

FILE - Mourners carry the body of a victim of an explosion in a restaurant in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2022. The Taliban say at least three people have been killed and 13 others wounded in an explosion in the Afghan capital. AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Two-year timeline of events in Afghanistan since 2021 Taliban takeover

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Afghanistan's higher education minister Nida Mohammed Nadim is interviewed on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Nadim says universities are ready to welcome back female students but the Taliban supreme leader has to give the order for their return. The Taliban barred women from campuses last December, triggering global outrage.(AP Photo/ Siddiqullah Alizai)

Afghan universities ready to readmit women but not until Taliban leader says it’s OK, official says

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press