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US and allies say Taliban has assured people can leave Afghanistan  Times of India Taliban reach out to India; US hits ‘bomber’  The Tribune Video: ‘I Won’t Go 20 Years Back in Time’: Young Afghan Women Speak Out  The New York Times On

Nuclear-armed North Korea appears to have restarted its plutonium-producing reprocessing reactor in a “deeply troubling” development, the UN atomic agency has said, a possible sign Pyongyang is expanding its banned weapons program. The development on the 5-megawatt reactor in Yongbyon

Syria’s longest river used to flow by his olive grove, but today Khaled al-Khamees says it has receded into the distance, parching his trees and leaving his family with hardly a drop to drink. “It’s as if we were in

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The devastating scenes of thousands of Afghans desperately trying to flee the Taliban takeover and deadly August 26 Kabul airport attack have highlighted the humanitarian and security threats following the hasty US withdrawal from Afghanistan. The disaster was slowly brewing,

Rockets were fired at Kabul’s airport on Monday where US troops were racing to complete their withdrawal from Afghanistan and evacuate allies under the threat of Islamic State group attacks. President Joe Biden has set a deadline of Tuesday to

U.S. counter-rocket defenses were deployed to intercept the assault. While no group claimed immediate responsibility, the U.S. has repeatedly warned of imminent threats by Islamic State.

The speed of the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan has been a surprise; China’s reaction to the “U.S. humiliation” anything but. As the Aug. 31 deadline for U.S. troops to leave the nation approaches, with thousands of Afghans and foreign nationals

Anuradha Mittal, who led a recent decision to end sales in ‘Occupied Palestinian Territory,’ also allegedly funneled funds to controversial Palestinian rights group

Uzbekistan is urging Washington to act quickly to take a group of U.S.-trained Afghan airmen who fled there two weeks ago to a third country to avoid inflaming relations with the Taliban.