Afghanistan

New Jersey will host about 500 Afghan evacuees, Gov. Phil Murphy said Monday. New Jersey’s Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst served as an arrival point for “many thousands” of Afghans who left their homeland as the United States withdrew its troops from the country, according to Murphy. It’s unclear how exactly the state is helping the refugees, but Murphy said the...

Chinese President Xi Jinping is making the most audacious geopolitical bet of the 21st century.

The interim mayor of Afghanistan’s capital says female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by men

Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers have set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry

A survivor of an errant U,S

Some of those left behind after the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan say they are scared the ruling Taliban will find them, throw them in jail, perhaps even kill them because they are Americans or had worked for the U.S. government

The Pentagon originally said the strike killed two ISIS-K fighters believed to be involved in planning attacks against U.S. forces in Kabul. 

Prior to the Taliban takeover, 80% of the Afghan government’s budget was funded by the U.S. and other Western donors.

Brookings Institute senior fellow Michael O’Hanlon discussed the current state of Afghanistan under Taliban rule.

There is a new international order, where competition is fierce and some nations “stop at nothing to gain influence,” President Ursula von der Leyen said.

Joe Petito, the father of missing 22-year-old Gabby Petito, explains why he’s urging her fiance to work with authorities in their search for his daughter.

The United Nations has drummed up more than $1.2 billion in emergency pledges for helping 11 million Afghans facing an escalating humanitarian crisis in their homeland and millions more elsewhere in the region

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a contentious congressional hearing on Monday that the Taliban “is the de facto government of Afghanistan.”

Pakistan has been accused of covertly aiding the Taliban during their insurgency in Afghanistan, while also being an U.S. ally — a charge that Pakistan denies.

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) explains why the Biden administration’s timeline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan limited America’s negotiating ability.

After U.S. Rep. Brian Mast, R-Fla., began shouting during a tense hearing about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, Secretary of State Antony Blinken responded by saying “Simply put, congressman, what you said is dead wrong.”

Kabul’s main prison was once crowded with thousands of Taliban captured or arrested by the government during Afghanistan’s long war

At least 1 million children in Afghanistan will suffer from severe acute malnutrition this year, UNICEF executive director Henrietta Fore warned.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified Monday about the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.

President Joe Biden next week will deliver his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly since taking office.