ABC News5d
2 Americans freed from Afghanistan in prisoner swap, family and Taliban say
Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released. Ryan Corbett, an American held in Afghanistan since 2022, has been released from Taliban custody in a prisoner swap ...
Fox News6d
Mark Milley pardoned: General at center of Afghanistan withdrawal predicted it wouldn't be a Saigon moment
Mark Milley on Monday, capping off a presidency marred by the chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in 2021. Milley accepted the pardon, saying in a statement he does not want to spend the remainder of ...
NBC News5d
Two Americans released from Afghanistan in deal struck in Biden’s final hours in office
The U.S. secured the release of two Americans held in Afghanistan in former President Joe Biden’s final hours in office in exchange for the release of an Afghan Taliban member in U.S. custody ...
Reuters3d
Germany planning another deportation flight to Afghanistan, newspaper says
Berlin initially stopped returning people to Afghanistan because of human rights concerns after the Taliban took power in 2021. It had, however, sent one deportation flight thanks to the mediation ...
Yahoo7d
Funding cuts to Afghanistan are the biggest threat to helping women, aid agency chief warns
This is a locator map for Afghanistan with its capital, Kabul. (AP Photo) I was in the packed hall at Davos to hear Trump speak. The audience went from laughter to silence in seconds. Elizabeth ...
CNN5d
Two Americans held in Afghanistan traded for Taliban prisoner in final Biden deal delayed until Trump took office
In the very last hours of President Joe Biden’s time in office, a prisoner exchange years in the making was finally struck: the Taliban agreed to swap two Americans being held in Afghanistan for ...
Reuters4d
Chinese citizen 'murdered' in northern Afghanistan
KABUL, Jan 22 (Reuters) - A Chinese citizen was "murdered" in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, the Taliban provincial police said on Wednesday, adding that a preliminary investigation had ...
CNN5d
Trump executive order threatens fate of Afghan refugees who helped the US, advocate warns
“They’re in hiding, they’re in limbo, and President Trump campaigned about Afghanistan. … He started the end of the Afghan war and now he’s got to finish it. And that means bringing all ...
The Independent2d
ICC prosecutor seeks arrest warrant against Taliban leaders for persecuting Afghan women
Such persecution by the Taliban leaders was “committed from at least 15 August 2021 until the present day across the territory of Afghanistan”. The Taliban have barred girls and women from ...
The Daily Telegraph27d
Afghan Taliban’s attacks on Pakistan raise fears of all-out war
It followed Pakistani air strikes on the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a separate group but close ally to the Afghan Taliban, in eastern Afghanistan. Afghan officials say the strikes killed 46 ...
WTNH9d
Austin, the first Black defense secretary, ends his term marred by Afghanistan but buoyed by Ukraine
The U.S. withdrawal had been previously negotiated by Trump, and, because of that, there were only 2,500 U.S. forces in Afghanistan when Biden took office. To this day, there’s a deep sense of ...