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A Taliban fighter stands guard as Afghan people attend Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

U.S. still largest donor to Afghans despite Taliban takeover

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres gives an address after a closed-door summit on Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, May 2, 2023. A closed-door summit on Afghanistan ended Tuesday in Qatar without any formal acknowledgment of the Taliban-controlled government there, though the United Nations' chief said they would hold another meeting in the future about the country. (AP Photo/Lujain Jo)

U.N. summit in Qatar on Afghanistan ends, another planned

By Lujain Jo - Associated Press

Afghan people walk pass the Shah-Do Shamshira Mosque during the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

U.N. Security Council urges Afghanistan’s Taliban to reverse bans on women

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Patti LuPone accepts the award for best featured actress in a musical for &quot;Company&quot; at the 75th annual Tony Awards on Sunday, June 12, 2022, at Radio City Music Hall in New York. (Photo by Charles Sykes/Invision/AP)

Dear Patti LuPone: The ‘Christian Right’ and the Taliban are far from the same

By Billy Hallowell

A Taliban fighter stands guard as Afghan people attend Eid al-Fitr prayers, marking the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, April 21, 2023. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) **FILE**

Enemy of my enemy: Taliban regime aligns with U.S. in killing of ISIS terrorist leader

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

This image from a video released by the Department of Defense shows U.S. Marines at Abbey Gate before a suicide bomber struck outside Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, in Kabul Afghanistan. The Taliban have killed the senior Islamic State group leader behind the August 2021 bombing outside the Kabul airport that killed 13 service members and about 170 Afghans. That is according to the father of a Marine killed in the attack who was briefed on April 25, 2023, by military officials. (Department of Defense via AP, File)

Taliban kill mastermind of suicide bombing at Kabul airport

By Farnoush Amiri, Matthew Lee, Aamer Madhani and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building, Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

U.N. says leaving Afghanistan would be ‘heartbreaking’

By Michael Weissenstein - Associated Press

In this undated photo from an unknown location, released in 2016, the leader of the Afghanistan Taliban Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada poses for a portrait. The Taliban's supreme leader says, on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, Afghanistan will be ruined without justice, in a rare audio message shared on social media. Hibatullah Akhundzada, an Islamic scholar, almost never appears in public and hardly ever leaves the Taliban heartland in southern Kandahar province. (Afghan Islamic Press via AP, File)

Reclusive Taliban leader releases end-of-Ramadan message

Associated Press

FILE - In this image provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. service members assigned to Joint Task Force-Crisis Response, are pallbearers on Friday, Aug. 27, 2021, for the service members killed in action during operations at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, as transfer cases are placed onto a U.S. Air Force C17A Globemaster III for the flight back to the United States. (1st Lt. Mark Andries/U.S. Marine Corps via AP, File)

The buck stops…not here: Biden pins blame for disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal on Trump

By Stephen Dinan and Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this undated photo from an unknown location, released in 2016, the leader of the Afghanistan Taliban Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada poses for a portrait. The Taliban's supreme leader says, on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, Afghanistan will be ruined without justice, in a rare audio message shared on social media. Hibatullah Akhundzada, an Islamic scholar, almost never appears in public and hardly ever leaves the Taliban heartland in southern Kandahar province. (Afghan Islamic Press via AP, File)

Taliban share rare, months-old audio from reclusive leader

Associated Press

In this handout photo released by Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service, from left: Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang and Pakistani Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Hina Rabbani Khar pose for a group photo during a ministerial meeting in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, Thursday, April 13, 2023. (Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP)

Russia, China FM attend high-level conference on Afghanistan

Associated Press

Afghan women chant and hold signs of protest during a demonstration in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 26, 2022. The U.N. said Wednesday, April 5, 2023, that it cannot accept a Taliban decision to bar Afghan female staffers from working at the agency, calling it an “unparalleled” violation of women's rights. (AP Photo/Mohammed Shoaib Amin, File)

Taliban say there are no obstacles for U.N. work in Afghanistan

Associated Press

The symbol of the United Nations is displayed outside the Secretariat Building, Feb. 28, 2022, at United Nations Headquarters. The U.N. said Wednesday, April 5, 2023, that it cannot accept a Taliban decision to bar Afghan female staffers from working at the agency, calling it an “unparalleled” violation of women's rights. (AP Photo/John Minchillo) **FILE**

U.N. to review presence in Afghanistan following Taliban ban

Associated Press

Justices confront Big Tech’s definition of ‘terrorist’ in legal liability case

By Alex Swoyer and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks to reporters about the indictment of former President Donald Trump during a media availability on Wednesday, April 5, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard)

Sen. Lindsey Graham: Biden review of bungled Afghanistan withdrawal a ‘political whitewash’

By Ramsey Touchberry - The Washington Times

Najia Sorosh head of Sadai Banowan a women-run radio station, right, speaks with her Staff in the broadcasting studio in Badakhshan province, north-eastern of Afghanistan, Tuesday, Mar. 7, 2023. A women-run radio station in Afghanistan's northeast has been shut down for playing music during the holy month of Ramadan, a Taliban official said Saturday. (Sadai Banowan via AP)

Afghan women-run radio resumes broadcasts after shutdown

Associated Press

Taliban special force fighters arrive outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. military's withdrawal, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. The Taliban were in full control of Kabul's airport on Tuesday, after the last U.S. plane left its runway, marking the end of America's longest war. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)

White House puts best face on role in Afghanistan chaos, shifts blame to Trump

By Joseph Clark and Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

U.N.: Ban on Afghan female staffers by Taliban unacceptable

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Najia Sorosh (left), head of Sadai Banowan, a women-run radio station, speaks into a microphone in the broadcasting studio in Badakhshan province, northeastern of Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2023. (Sadai Banowan via AP) **FILE**

U.N.: Afghan female staff banned from work in eastern province

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Illustration on the legacy of Biden's unilateral withdrawal from Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Afghanistan haunts Biden, as it should

By Jed Babbin