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The United States has completed a drawdown of embassy personnel from Kabul, and the diplomatic staff remaining are assisting the evacuation of American citizens and Afghan allies, State Department spokesman Ned Price said on Tuesday.

A dozen Belarusian officers in riot gear illegally crossed into Lithuanian territory on Tuesday while pushing a group of 35 Iraqi migrants over the border, Lithuania's border guard service said.

A monument memorializing a northeast Nevada mining towns first Chinese pioneers will be unveiled in Carlin next month.

Afghan vice president Amrullah Saleh said on Twitter on Tuesday he is in Afghanistan and is the "legitimate caretaker president".

"Peril" also goes behind the scenes during the earliest days of the Biden administration, just weeks after the attack at the Capitol and as the coronavirus pandemic continued to rage throughout the country.

The Nicaraguan government on Monday canceled the registration of six nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from Denmark, Spain, the United States and Sweden, claiming they were violating the Central American nation's transparency laws.

Strong winds blowing in the area near the national park of Sounion were fanning the flames and hampering firefighting efforts.

A source said that they will try to convey that it is necessary for Taliban opt for a broad-based government to get 'international legitimacy'.

The chop of U.S. military helicopters whisking American diplomats to Kabuls airport on Sunday punctuated a frantic rush by thousands of other foreigners and Afghans to flee to safety as well, as a stunningly swift Taliban takeove r reached Afghanistans ca...

Authorities have detained 36 people in the brutal mob killing and burning of a man in a town in Algerias Kabyle region that the crowd suspected of starting dozens of wildfires but who had actually come to help, the head of the judicial police said Sunday.

The exact cause of the crash was not yet known and no details were currently available regarding the age or identity of the victims.

Mazar-e-Sharif, the fourth-largest city in Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban on Saturday after a multipronged assault launched by insurgents.

At least 13 people, including nine Chinese engineers, were killed in the suicide attack in Dasu area of Upper Kohistan district last month following which Pakistan had ordered an investigation into it.

It was not clear if the Taliban had purged the previous employees or allowed them to return to work. Most residents of Kandahar sport the traditional dress favoured by the Taliban. The man in the video congratulated the people of Kandahar on the Taliban's...

The Taliban's social media is awash with videos of Taliban fighters seizing weapons caches, the majority supplied by Western powers

Despite a series of war crimes linked to his forces, the Afghan government is hoping Dostum's military acumen and seething hatred of the Taliban can help beat back the current insurgent offensive.