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The stories they told and the bruises on their bodies brought tears to her eyes. But her time with them also brought something else.

The top Kurdish commander is looking to the Biden administration to keep its promises and maintain U.S. troops in Syria.

Many of the same doyens of the Washington establishment who are now outraged that the Taliban is back in power have been less vocal about the failures and shortcomings of the two decades spent keeping the militants at bay.

Evacuees from Afghanistan are facing long delays as they wait to be processed at Dulles International Airport outside Washington.

A scramble for cash in Kabul has residents worried about food prices and the future.

The prison has been the site of mass executions and holds foreigners and Iranians with dual nationality used as bargaining chips by Tehran.

Today on the show, we revisit the Afghanistan Papers: hundreds of secret interviews with top U.S. officials admitting in private what they never said in public — that the war in Afghanistan was not going well.

Almost as soon as Kabul fell, the political blame game began in Washington. But why weren’t we more prepared? Plus, an interview with Afghanistan’s first female ambassador to the United States on her fears for women and girls in her country.

“The United States has a moral obligation,” said Afghan American novelist Khaled Hosseini. “Admit as many Afghan refugees as possible.”

The United States has secured the airport’s perimeter, and the American military presence will soon swell to 6,000 troops — all of whom have the sole mission of ensuring that U.S. and allied personnel depart Afghanistan safely.

After two decades of fighting U.S. forces in Afghanistan, the fundamentalist Islamist group is on the verge of seizing power again for the first time since 2001.

As Afghanistan's provincial capitals fall like dominoes to the Taliban, the echoes of Saigon 1975 are ringing loudly in Kabul 2021.

Veterans across the world are voicing frustration over the Taliban’s faster-than-expected comeback.

A leading human rights group Thursday said that rocket and mortar attacks by Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip during the conflict with Israel in May “violated the laws of war."

Among the possible future scenarios charted in the IPCC’s landmark report is one in which Trump-style politics leads to a scary surge in global temperatures.

The prospect of a new bill set to come before Iran’s parliament has renewed fears that what remains of Iran open Internet could soon be restricted still further, and that Instagram could be next on the chopping block.

Overcoming an impoverished upbringing, he attained the rank of career ambassador and served as U.S. envoy to Sierra Leone, Togo, Bahrain and Slovenia.

The Israeli army responded to the rocket barrage with artillery fire into southern Lebanon.

Ebrahim Raisi, who takes office Thursday, has vowed to heal a “rift” between Iran’s people and government.

The rockets caused no injuries or damage but marked escalating tensions between Israel and Iran.

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