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While Beijing says it has no desire to direct any future political settlement in Kabul, it appears to have scented opportunity to press its Belt and Road interests as the US pulls out.

The White House says the leaders agreed on the need for close coordination with allies about the future of aid and support to Afghanistan now that the Taliban is in charge

Bolivias recent interim government came to power by sidestepping constitutional rules for presidential succession and persecuted opponents with systematic torture and summary executions by security forces in the tumultuous aftermath of Evo Morales resigna...

The Taliban has told the United States it will provide safe passage for civilians to reach the airport in Afghanistan's capital Kabul, U.S. national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on Tuesday.

Ezanullah, one of thousands of young Taliban fighters from the countryside who rode into Afghanistan's capital over the weekend, had never seen anything like it.

The accounts of several Afghan women trapped in their homes echoed despair, helplessness, and, above all, resignation to their fate.

While New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern implored Taliban leaders to uphold human rights, France President Emmanuel Macron said Afghanistan shouldn’t again become a 'sanctuary of terrorism'.

We went to Afghanistan 20 years ago to get those who attacked us on September 11, 2001, and make sure Al-Qaeda can't use Afghanistan as a base again, said US President Joe Biden.

Prosecutors asked a judge Monday to reject a request by a coalition of media outlets to unseal the names of the jurors who convicted exMinneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin of murder in the death of George Floyd, saying it could subject them to harassm...

Built and trained at a twodecade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly and completely in some cases without a shot fired that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment turned out to be the Taliban. They grabbed not o...

Isaczai, at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in wartorn Afghanistan, urged the UNSC to unequivocally state that it does not recognise the restoration of the Islamic Emirate.

"The Taliban have made it to remove me, they are here to attack all Kabul and the people of Kabul. In order to avoid the bleeding flood, I thought it was best to get out," Ghani said in a Facebook post on Sunday.

New South Wales state Premier Gladys Berejiklian said seven people in Sydney had died from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours

Trump has repeatedly blasted Biden over the move, saying it would have been "a much different and much more successful withdrawal" if he were still president.

A man who was stabbed when a Los Angeles protest against vaccine mandates turned violent has been released from the hospital, police said Sunday.

President Joe Biden called school district superintendents in Florida and Arizona to praise them for doing the right thing after their respective boards implemented mask requirements in defiance of their Republican governors amid growing COVID19 infection...