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Tens of thousands of evacuees who fled the capital Kabul after the Taliban swept in and deployed on the streets in mid-August.

Hibatullah Akhundzada -- the so-called commander of the faithful -- has shepherded the Taliban as its chief since 2016 when snatched from relative obscurity to oversee a movement in crisis.

Two Texas police officers, including one already under a murder indictment, were indicted Friday in the July 2019 shooting of an Austin scientist reported having a mental health crisis.

Pandemics do not respect international borders, and we all must better understand how COVID-19 came to be in order to prevent further pandemics, Biden said.

The papers identifying seven Afghans were found by The Times on Tuesday as Taliban fighters patrolled the embassy

In an exclusive interview with CNN-News18, Saleh had earlier accused Pakistan of being at the “service” of Taliban.

Mexicos president replaced the countrys first female interior secretary Thursday with an experienced politician who may help in the runup to the 2024 elections.

A judge has rejected a request by a gun owners group for a temporary injunction to require the Minnesota State Fair to allow permit holders to carry their pistols on the fairgrounds, ruling Wednesday that they're unlikely to prevail as the broader case go...

Gov. Ralph Northam's administration received notification Wednesday that the Department of Defense had authorized the use of Marine Corps Base Quantico to house Afghan refugees, as well as a national guard installation in central Virginia.

Geologists on Tuesday said they had detected a swarm of earthquakes at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano, though it is not erupting.

US Vice President Kamala Harris accused Beijing of coercion and intimidation in the hotly disputed South China Sea.

Dozens of headstones from a historic African American cemetery in the nation's capital that were used as erosion control along the Virginia shoreline of the Potomac River are being relocated to a memorial garden in Maryland.

Afghanistan was the world's fourth most dangerous country in last year's Peoples under Threat Index, which said all ethnic groups faced the risk of systematic violent repression and mass killings.

Egypt is to close the Rafah crossing on its border with the Gaza Strip until further notice on Monday, Egyptian security sources said.

On Sunday, there were no major injuries as gunmen beat back the crowds and long lines of people were being formed, the witnesses said.

New Zealand has been the slowest developed nation to put shots in arms, with just 20% of people fully vaccinated.