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A top Taliban leader says Afghanistan's new rulers are committed in principle to education and jobs for girls and women and have learned lessons from their previous time in power.

Sharbat Gulla. National Geographic's famed green-eyed "Afghan Girl," has arrived in Italy as part of the West's evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country.

Thursday, March 31, 2016

PESHAWAR, Pakistan(AP) — A Pakistani official says the death toll in a Taliban attack on a school in the northwestern city of Peshawar has risen to 126.

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — President Barack Obama says his administration has consulted with Congress "for some time" about a possible prisoner exchange for the release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.

BROOMFIELD, Colo. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says she won't second guess the Obama administration's decision to swap five prisoners from Guantanamo Bay for a U.S. soldier held by the Taliban, but she notes that America's allies often make such deals.

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Sergeant Bowe Berdahl is headed home, and all say that they are happy for Berdahl and his family.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration faces mounting questions over the prisoner swap that won freedom for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl after five years in Taliban hands.