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FILE - In this 1998 file photo made available Friday, March 19, 2004, Ayman al-Zawahri, left, listens during a news conference with Osama bin Laden in Khost, Afghanistan. A U.S. airstrike has killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan, according to a person familiar with the matter. President Joe Biden will speak about the operation on Monday night, Aug. 1, 2022, from the White House. (AP Photo/Mazhar Ali Khan, File)
Taliban Under Scrutiny As US Kills Al-Qaida Leader in Kabul
  • 2 August 2022
The Taliban had promised in the 2020 Doha Agreement on the terms of the U.S....
  • AP News
Taliban Under Scrutiny As US Kills Al-Qaida Leader in Kabul
In this photo released by a state-run news agency Bakhtar, Afghans look at destruction caused by an earthquake in the province of Paktika, eastern Afghanistan, Wednesday, June 22, 2022. (Bakhtar News Agency via AP)
Afghanistan Quake Kills 1,000 People, Deadliest in Decades
  • 22 June 2022
Officials warned that the already grim toll may still rise.
  • AP News
Afghanistan Quake Kills 1,000 People, Deadliest in Decades
FILE - Afghan girls participate in a lesson at Tajrobawai Girls High School in Herat, Afghanistan on Nov. 25, 2021. In a surprise decision the hardline leadership of Afghanistan's new rulers has decided against opening educational institutions to girls beyond Grade six, a Taliban official said Wednesday, March 23, 2022 on the first day of Afghanistan's new school year. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris, File)
Taliban Cancels Girls’ Higher Education Despite Pledges
  • 23 March 2022
The unexpected decision came at the start of the new school year in Afghanistan.
  • AP News
Taliban Cancels Girls’ Higher Education Despite Pledges
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin speaks during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on the conclusion of military operations in Afghanistan and plans for future counterterrorism operations, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)
US Military Leaders Favored Keeping Troops in Afghanistan
  • 28 September 2021
Top U.S. military officers acknowledged misjudging the fragility of Afghanistan's army and said they believed...
  • AP News
US Military Leaders Favored Keeping Troops in Afghanistan
In this photo provided to The Associated Press, members of the Afghanistan national girls soccer team are seen on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, in Lisbon, Portugal. Late Sunday night, almost three weeks after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, the girls and their families landed in Lisbon after an international coalition came to their rescue. (AP Photo)
Afghanistan Girls Soccer Team Given Asylum in Portugal
  • 21 September 2021
All dream of growing up to be professional soccer players.
  • AP News
Afghanistan Girls Soccer Team Given Asylum in Portugal
FILE - In this Oct. 30, 2020, file photo, then-President Donald Trump's White House senior adviser Stephen Miller walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. Tens of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban are arriving in the U.S., and a handful of former Trump administration officials are working to turn Republicans against them. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
Trump Aides Aim to Build GOP Opposition to Afghan Refugees
  • 15 September 2021
As tens of thousands of Afghan refugees fleeing the Taliban arrive in the U.S., a...
  • AP News
Trump Aides Aim to Build GOP Opposition to Afghan Refugees
FILE - In this Aug. 31, 2021 file photo, Taliban fighters stand guard inside the Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. withdrawal in Kabul, Afghanistan. Taliban authorities will allow between 100 and 150 Americans to fly out from Kabul in the coming hours, Qatari officials said on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021, marking the airport’s first such flight since U.S. forces withdrew from the country. The large group of foreigners, including Americans and other Westerners, would depart Thursday on a Qatar Airways flight that had earlier ferried humanitarian aid to the country, officials said. (AP Photo/Kathy Gannon, File)
Dozens of Westerners to Fly from Kabul on Commercial Flight
  • 9 September 2021
Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities will allow some 200 Westerners, including Americans, to fly out from Kabul...
  • AP News
Dozens of Westerners to Fly from Kabul on Commercial Flight
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2021. The Taliban on Tuesday announced a caretaker Cabinet stacked with veterans of their harsh rule in the late 1990s and subsequent 20-year battle against the U.S.-led coalition and its Afghan government allies. The line-up announced at the press conference is not likely to win the international support the Taliban so desperately need to avoid an economic meltdown. (AP Photo/Muhammad Farooq)
Taliban Form All-Male Afghan Government of Old Guard Members
  • 7 September 2021
Appointed to the key post of interior minister was Sirajuddin Haqqani, who is on the...
  • AP News
Taliban Form All-Male Afghan Government of Old Guard Members
President Joe Biden speaks about the end of the war in Afghanistan from the State Dining Room of the White House, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Biden Praises Airlift, Defends Departure from ‘Forever War’
  • 31 August 2021
Twenty-four hours after the departure of the last American C-17 cargo plane from Kabul, Biden...
  • AP News
Biden Praises Airlift, Defends Departure from ‘Forever War’
Locals view a vehicle damaged by a rocket attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. Rockets struck a neighborhood near Kabul's international airport on Monday amid the ongoing U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. It wasn't immediately clear who launched them. (AP Photo/Khwaja Tawfiq Sediqi)
Rockets Fired at Kabul Airport but US Flights Continue
  • 30 August 2021
The Islamic State group claimed the attack, and there were no immediate reports of casualties.
  • AP News
Rockets Fired at Kabul Airport but US Flights Continue
President Joe Biden speaks about the evacuation of American citizens, their families, SIV applicants and vulnerable Afghans in the East Room of the White House, Friday, Aug. 20, 2021, in Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris listens at left. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
Biden Pledges to Americans in Kabul: ‘We Will Get You Home’
  • 20 August 2021
Biden also said Friday the United States is committed to evacuating all Afghans who assisted...
  • AP News
Biden Pledges to Americans in Kabul: ‘We Will Get You Home’
In this photo provided by the U.S. Marine Corps, two civilians during processing through an Evacuee Control Checkpoint during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2021. (Staff Sgt. Victor Mancilla/U.S. Marine Corps via AP)
US Struggles to Speed Kabul Airlift Despite Taliban, Chaos
  • 20 August 2021
The United States is struggling to pick up the pace of American and Afghan evacuations...
  • AP News
US Struggles to Speed Kabul Airlift Despite Taliban, Chaos
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