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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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 ...

Radio Begum, based in Kabul, launched five months before the Taliban took control of Afghanistan in 2021. It confirmed the raid and said Taliban officials from the information and culture ministry ...

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 ...

Humanitarian concerns have been raised over Afghanistan being left out of United Nations climate negotiations for a third year in a row, as the country grapples with worsening drought and floods.

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 ...

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 ...