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Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The U.S. has condemned the Taliban for ordering non-governmental groups in Afghanistan to stop employing women, saying the ban will disrupt vital and life-saving assistance to millions. It is the latest blow to female rights and freedoms since the Taliban seized power last year and follows sweeping restrictions on education, employment, clothing and travel. (AP Photo, File)

3 NGOs suspend work in Afghanistan after Taliban bar women

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

A classroom that previously was used for girls sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. The country's Taliban rulers earlier this week ordered women nationwide to stop attending private and public universities effective immediately and until further notice. They have banned girls from middle school and high school, barred women from most fields of employment and ordered them to wear head-to-toe clothing in public. Women are also banned from parks and gyms.(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban ban women from working for domestic, foreign NGOs

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Hundreds of people gather near a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane at the perimeter of the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2021. (AP Photo/Shekib Rahmani, File)

DHS deports Afghan evacuee who sexually abused 3-year-old girl

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Afghan women chant slogans during a protest against the ban on university education for women, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 22, 2022. (AP Photo)

Turkey, Saudi Arabia decry Taliban university ban for women

Associated Press

Afghan students walk toward their university in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla) ** FILE **

Afghan women weep as Taliban fighters enforce university ban

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Security officials stand guard on a blocked road leading to a counter-terrorism center where several Pakistani Taliban detainees have taken police officers and others hostage inside the compound, in Bannu, a district in the Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Monday, Dec. 19, 2022. Several Pakistani Taliban detainees have managed to overpower their guards at the counter-terrorism center, snatching police weapons and taking control of the facility, officials said Monday. (AP Photo/Muhammad Hasib)

Officials say Pakistan raid kills all Taliban hostage-takers

By Riaz Khan and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Arefeh 40-year-old, an Afghan woman leaves an underground school, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 30, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban says women banned from universities in Afghanistan

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Smoke rises from a hotel building after an explosions and gunfire in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. A Taliban official says that a hotel building has come under a complex attack in the Afghan capital Kabul. (AP Photo)

Taliban: Assailants attack hotel in Afghan capital Kabul

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Batool Haidari, 37, talks during an interview with the Associated Press on a train taking her from her home on the outskirts of Rome, to the capital's center, Monday, Dec. 5, 2022. Batool Haidari was a prominent professor of sexology at a university in Kabul before last year’s Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. She used to lecture mixed classes of male and female students and look after her patients struggling with their gender identity. That comfortable life came to an abrupt halt on Aug. 15, 2021, when the ultra-religious group swept back into power. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Afghan academic rebuilds life in Italy, dreams of returning

By Paolo Santalucia - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard at the site of an explosion in front of a school in Kabul, Afghanistan, on April 19, 2022. It was one of several deadly explosions that have targeted educational institutions in Afghanistan's capital. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) **FILE**

Taliban carry out first public execution since coming to power in Afghanistan

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Investigators collect evidence at the site of a suicide bombing on the outskirt of Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a truck carrying police officers on their way to protect polio workers outside Quetta, killing few people and wounding more than 20 others, mostly policemen, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

Pakistan demands Taliban prevent attacks, after suicide bomb

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people wait in line to receive food rations distributed by a Saudi humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, April 25, 2022. A senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross says that Afghans will struggle for their lives as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule and faces plummeting humanitarian conditions. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban: 10 killed in bombing of Afghan religious school

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Pakistani security officials inspect at damaged truck at the site of suicide bombing on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022. A suicide bomber blew himself up near a truck carrying police officers on their way to protect polio workers outside Quetta, wounding more than 20 others, mostly policemen, officials said. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

4 dead as bomber hits Pakistan police protecting polio teams

By Abdul Sattar and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

A Shariah Law official uses a rattan cane to whip one of two men convicted of gay sex in Banda Aceh, Aceh province, Indonesia, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Neighbors reported them to the Shariah Police in Indonesia's conservative Aceh province, and they were caned 77 times each. (AP Photo/Riska Munawarah)

Taliban confirms first public lashings for Sharia law violators

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

A girl holds a chicken in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, April 28, 2022. A senior official with the International Committee of the Red Cross says that Afghans will struggle for their lives as the country braces for its second winter under Taliban rule and faces plummeting humanitarian conditions. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Afghans will struggle for their lives this winter: Red Cross

By Riazat Butt - Associated Press

Afghan women stand outside an amusement park, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. The Taliban have banned women from using gyms and parks in Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 10. The rule, which comes into force this week, is the group's latest edict cracking down on women's rights and freedoms. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban-run Afghanistan brings back executions and amputations for crimes

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

Afghan women stand outside an amusement park, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. The Taliban have banned women from using gyms and parks in Afghanistan, Thursday, Nov. 10. The rule, which comes into force this week, is the group's latest edict cracking down on women's rights and freedoms.(AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban bars Afghan women from going to gyms, public baths

By Matt Delaney - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 26, 2021, image provided by the U.S. Army, an Afghan man hands his child to a British Paratrooper assigned to 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment while a member of 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division conducts security at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (U.S. Army via AP) **FILE**

Failures of Afghanistan pullout fade for voters

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

New Afghan Army special forces members attend their graduation ceremony after a three-month training program at the Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC) in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 17, 2021. Afghan special forces soldiers who fought alongside American troops and then fled to Iran after the chaotic U.S. withdrawal last year are now being recruited by the Russian military to fight in Ukraine, three former Afghan generals told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul, File)

Russia recruiting U.S.-trained Afghan commandos, vets say

By Bernard Condon - Associated Press

Illustration on post-American Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

America said “no more” and left Afghanistan; should we return?

By Ron MacCammon