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The Hunt: Teen girl becomes hero after standing up to Taliban

A teenage girl is now a hero in Afghanistan after she picked up an AK-47 and fought off a Taliban attack, killing two militants with the weapon her father taught her to use before he was killed by the terrorist group.

On this week’s edition of “The Hunt” with WTOP national security correspondent J.J. Green, Dr. Barnett Koven, lead counterterrorism researcher with the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, based at the University of Maryland, said there will likely be consequences.

The Hunt: Suspected Russian attacks in Europe indicate Ukraine war is spreading

This week, Russia launched one of its deadliest attacks on Kyiv in months using missiles and drones. At least 17 people were killed and more than 40 wounded, but 800 miles away in Germany, Russia is suspected of launching an attack on an airport, possibly expanding the war. On this episode of "The Hunt with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green," Dr. Hans-Jakob Schindler, senior director at the Counter Extremism Project, discusses what happened.
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