Blinken said the State Department is in touch with “about 100 American citizens” in Afghanistan who are seeking to leave, but he was unable to provide a number for legal permanent residents.

President Joe Biden said Wednesday that he would withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks because "it is time to end America’s longest war ...

No girls attended formal school when the Taliban last controlled Afghanistan in the 1990s before 9/11, and only about one million boys were enrolled in 2001, according to The BBC. But in the ...

Afghanistan is a major character in New York-based Afghan-American writer Nadia Hashimi’s book, Sparks Like Stars In the novel, an Afghan-American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about ...

Afghanistan Before the Fall. Poorly equipped anti-Taliban militia fighters near the northern Afghanistan city of Mazar-i-Sharif last month, a few weeks before the government collapsed.

An August 2011 tweet said the US was "wasting lives and money in Iraq and Afghanistan.”The following year, he called the conflict a “complete waste,” and said it was “time to come home!” ...

Afghanistan’s new leaders attempted to portray themselves as Taliban 2.0, a more temperate version of the Islamic fundamentalist movement that had maintained an oppressive rule over the country ...

Baerbock continued: "Last but not least, we owe it to the victims that the perpetrators serve their sentence in prison and that murderers are not set free in Afghanistan." Advertisement About Our Ads ...

SOLA: Daring to educate Afghanistan’s girls | 60 Minutes 26:49. Kabul — Afghanistan's schools reopened Tuesday for the new academic year, but no classes were held as students were unaware of ...

“Life in Afghanistan, in Kabul,” said Alyas Tajik, “was perfect.” It was a bright morning in September, and the 20-year-old was sitting in the living room of a newly built rental townhouse ...