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FILE - Zabiullah Mujahid, the spokesman for the Taliban government, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, June 30, 2022. The Taliban said Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2022, that there is enough security across Afghanistan to restart major economic projects that stopped due to decades of war, despite a slew of attacks rocking the country since the group seized power a year ago. Mujahid said Wednesday that Afghanistan had the opportunity to connect with the rest of the countries in the region, highlighting China as a key part of the nation's economic development. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Taliban say Afghanistan secure enough for big projects

Associated Press

A 19-year old Hazara Afghan girl sits and cries on the bench she was sitting on, during Friday's suicide bomber attack on a Hazara education center, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Oct. 1, 2022. Afghanistan's Hazaras, who are mostly Shiite Muslims, have been the target of a brutal campaign of violence for the past several years. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Women protesters demand more security after Afghan bombing

By Siddiqullah Alizai - Associated Press

Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, center, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for an international peace conference in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, March 18, 2021. Russia is hosting a peace conference for Afghanistan, bringing together government representatives and their Taliban adversaries along with regional observers in a bid to help jump-start the country's stalled peace process. The one-day gathering Thursday is the first of three planned international conferences ahead of a May 1 deadline for the final withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops from the country, a date fixed under a year-old agreement between the Trump administration and the Taliban. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, Pool)

Trump reveals he threatened family of Taliban leader with a photo to secure a deal

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Bashir Noorzai, a senior Taliban detainee held at Guantanamo, speaks during his release ceremony, at the Intercontinental Hotel, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022. Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and member of the Taliban, told reporters in Kabul on Monday that he spent 17 years and six months in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and that he was the last Taliban prisoner there. Taliban-appointed Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said Monday that the released American was Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran and civilian contractor kidnapped in Afghanistan in 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban detainee freed from Guantanamo, claims exchanged for American prisoner

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

A classroom of a Hazara Shiite school sits empty in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, July 31, 2022. Taliban authorities Saturday, Sept. 10, 2022, shut down girls schools above the sixth grade in eastern Afghanistan's Paktia province that had been briefly opened after a recommendation by tribal elders and school principals, according to witnesses and social media posts. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

UN: Exclusion of Afghan girls from high schools ‘shameful’

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Wally Adeyemo speaks during a joint media conference with European Commissionner for Financial services Mairead McGuinness at EU headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, March 29, 2022. (Johanna Geron, Pool Photo via AP)

U.S. puts $3.5 billion seized from Afghan central bank into relief fund held in Switzerland

By Brad Matthews - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters and supporters celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi) ** FILE **

Suicide attack at Russia embassy in Kabul kills 2 diplomats

Associated Press

As seen on a computer screen from a DVD prepared by Al-Sahab production, Al Qaeda's Ayman al-Zawahiri speaks in Islamabad, Pakistan, on June 20, 2006. Al-Zawahiri, the top Al Qaeda leader, was killed by the U.S. over the weekend in Afghanistan. President Joe Biden is scheduled to speak about the operation on Monday night, Aug. 1, 2022, from the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/B.K.Bangash, File)

Over-the-horizon U.S. strike on terrorist raises fears of what’s being missed

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

A Taliban fighter stands guard as people receive food rations distributed by a Chinese humanitarian aid group, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, April 30, 2022. Afghanistan is expected 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will face malnutrition in the country by the end of this year, as hospitals wards are packed with sick children for sever hunger and malnutrition. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Afghan medic says at least 18 killed, 21 wounded in mosque blast

Associated Press

Taliban fighters celebrate the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Woman arrested after accusing Taliban official of rape

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Taliban fighters chant slogans during a celebration marking the first anniversary of the withdrawal of US-led troops from Afghanistan, in front of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2022. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

History As It Happens: Taliban redux

By Martin Di Caro

Marine Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., director, Joint Staff, speaks as he shows photographs from before and after the U.S.-led airstrikes against Syria during a media availability at the Pentagon, Saturday, April 14, 2018, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Former top general in the Middle East says Biden told that Afghanistan would fall if U.S. pulled out

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Afghanistan and bringing back a terrorist state illustration by The Washington Times

Afghanistan stalemate beats betraying an ally, losing a war and bringing back a terrorist state

By Don Ritter

A woman passes a pile of bricks that will be used for the construction of a mosque in the Mirbacha Kot hospital, Afghanistan on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2021. The construction of the mosque is the new manager's top priority as health care workers continue to work without salaries, without medicine and with frequent power cuts in Afghanistan's crumbling economy. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Religious freedom ‘does not exist’ in Afghanistan one year after Taliban takeover, advocates say

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

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)

Tens of thousands of Afghan allies still waiting for U.S. rescue a year after Taliban takeover

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Mourners carry the body of a victim of a mosque bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 18. 2022. A bombing at a mosque in Kabul during evening prayers on Wednesday killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded over two dozen, an eyewitness and police said. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Police: Death toll in Afghan capital mosque bombing now 21

By Rahim Faiez and Ebrahim Noroozi - Associated Press

Illustration on Biden and Afghanistan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Biden’s legacy of failure in Afghanistan

By Brett D. Schaefer

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. The Taliban marked the first-year anniversary of their takeover after the country's western-backed government fled and the Afghan military crumbled in the face of the insurgents' advance. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Taliban seized more than $7B in U.S.-provided weapons when Afghan government fell

By Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Aug. 15, 2021, file photo, Taliban fighters take control of the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, after President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. On the eve of the anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan's former president on Sunday, Aug. 14, 2022, defended what he said was a split-second decision to flee, saying he wanted to avoid the humiliation of surrender to the insurgents. (AP Photo/Zabi Karimi, File)

Afghanistan marks 1 year since Taliban seizure as woes mount

By Rahim Faiez and Ebrahim Noroozi - Associated Press

Taliban fighters celebrate one year since they seized the Afghan capital, Kabul, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 15, 2022. The Taliban marked the first-year anniversary of their takeover after the country's western-backed government fled and the Afghan military crumbled in the face of the insurgents' advance. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)

Biden ‘marks’ anniversary of Taliban takeover with silence, vacation

By Jeff Mordock - The Washington Times