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Afghanistan updates: Taliban claims victory over Panjshir, last pocket of resistance

Monday, September 6 by ABC News

(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the country, including the Kabul airport, the site of an often-desperate evacuation effort the past two weeks.But even as the last American... Read More.

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to resign

Friday, September 3 by ABC News

(TOKYO) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will not seek re-election as president of the country's Liberal Democratic Party, effectively ending his term as prime minister after just one year.Suga told reporters Friday that he would instead work on policy measures, specifically highlighting efforts... Read More.

New Zealand police shoot dead ‘ISIS-inspired extremist’ after he stabs six at supermarket

Friday, September 3 by ABC News

(AUCKLAND, New Zealand) -- New Zealand is reeling from a knife-wielding rampage at a busy Auckland supermarket that left six fighting for their lives and the assailant dead. Authorities have called it a terror attack.Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern confirmed that the man behind Friday's... Read More.

Prince Harry urges governments and pharma companies to end vaccine inequity

Thursday, September 2 by ABC News

(LONDON) -- Prince Harry gave an impassioned speech at an awards ceremony last night, pleading with governments and pharmaceutical companies to do more to vaccinate the world.“Where you’re born should not affect your ability to survive, when the drugs and know-how exist to keep... Read More.

Historic Afghanistan evacuation wraps up, with fate of those left behind uncertain

Thursday, September 2 by ABC News

(LONDON) -- At one minute before midnight local time on Aug. 31, the last U.S. servicemember was withdrawn from Afghanistan. It marked the end to almost two decades of war and a frantic and heavily criticized evacuation effort prompted by the Taliban rapidly recapturing... Read More.

A flight they’ll never forget: Afghan evacuation crews recount journey

Wednesday, September 1 by ABC News

(WASHINGTON) -- For the thousands of Afghan evacuees bound for the U.S., their rescue flights to America were just one more step in a long journey, but for the airline crews who brought them here -- the flights are the most memorable of their... Read More.

Inside State Department officials’ scramble to rescue Americans, Afghan partners

Wednesday, September 1 by ABC News

(WASHNGTON) -- When the young boy, just 13 or 14 years-old, was safely inside the gates of Kabul's international airport, U.S. State Department officials there asked two questions: Where were his parents? And why was there blood all over his clothes?"He said that somebody... Read More.

Afghanistan updates: Top Pentagon officials speak to war veterans: ‘It was not in vain’

Wednesday, September 1 by ABC News

(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the country, including the Kabul airport, the site of an often-desperate evacuation effort the past two weeks.But even as the last American... Read More.

Afghanistan updates: Taliban celebrates US exit with mock funeral

Wednesday, September 1 by ABC News

(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the country, including the Kabul airport, the site of an often-desperate evacuation effort the past two weeks.But even as the last American... Read More.

Afghan migrants trapped for weeks in woods because of Poland and Belarus standoff

Tuesday, August 31 by ABC News

(NEW YORK) -- A group of Afghans has been trapped for three weeks at the edge of a forest on the border between Poland and Belarus, caught in a no man's land between Polish security forces who will not let them enter Poland and Belarusian... Read More.

Afghanistan updates: ‘It was time to end this war,’ Biden says

Tuesday, August 31 by ABC News

(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the country, including the Kabul airport, the site of an often-desperate evacuation effort the past two weeks.But even as the last American... Read More.

Afghanistan updates: Biden to defend US military withdrawal

Tuesday, August 31 by ABC News

(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- Chaos enveloped Kabul after Afghanistan's government collapsed and the Taliban seized control. Now with the U.S. military withdrawal complete, America's 20-year campaign ends as it began: under Taliban rule.Officials said the terror group ISIS-K carried out what the Pentagon called a... Read More.

Afghanistan updates: Taliban claims victory over Panjshir, last pocket of resistance

Japan’s Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga to resign

New Zealand police shoot dead ‘ISIS-inspired extremist’ after he stabs six at supermarket

Prince Harry urges governments and pharma companies to end vaccine inequity

Historic Afghanistan evacuation wraps up, with fate of those left behind uncertain

A flight they’ll never forget: Afghan evacuation crews recount journey

Inside State Department officials’ scramble to rescue Americans, Afghan partners

Afghanistan updates: Top Pentagon officials speak to war veterans: ‘It was not in vain’

Afghanistan updates: Taliban celebrates US exit with mock funeral

Afghan migrants trapped for weeks in woods because of Poland and Belarus standoff

Afghanistan updates: ‘It was time to end this war,’ Biden says

Afghanistan updates: Biden to defend US military withdrawal

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