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NPR recently sat down with Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid, a Taliban leader and Afghanistan’s interim defense minister, as the one year anniversary of the collapse of the Afghanistan government.

The restrictions on women’s movement and dress are the harshest that the Taliban have announced since they came to power in August

The local Afghan community, centered in Northeast Philadelphia, has nearly doubled with the influx of evacuees, adding 650 new people. Resettlement agencies predict around 200 newly arrived Afghan students will be enrolled in local schools once all the families are processed.

Philadelphia International Airport is now the only entry point in the United States accepting Afghan evacuees.

More Americans exit Afghanistan

The U.S. marks the milestone anniversary Saturday under the pall of a pandemic and in the shadow of a frantic withdrawal from Afghanistan, which fell to the same militant rulers who gave safe haven to the plotters of the 2001 attacks.

A new NPR/Ipsos poll shows unusually wide support for resettling Afghans allies. Even many Republicans who favor tighter controls on immigration say the U.S. should help those who fled the Taliban.