afghanistan evacuation

Hundreds of veterans and other frontline volunteers who have organized ongoing evacuations from Afghanistan said that their efforts have become “untenable.”

Officials say senior Taliban members and U.S. representatives are to hold talks about containing extremist groups in Afghanistan and easing the evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghans from the country

The top U.S. military officer is in Greece meeting with NATO counterparts this weekend, and Army Gen. Mark Milley is hoping to forge more basing, intelligence-sharing and other agreements to prevent terrorist groups from regrouping in Afghanistan, and threatening America and the region.

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

In a post on Instagram, the fallen marine’s sister, Cheyenne, shared the happy news of the baby’s arrival alongside photos revealing the emotional tribute to the infant’s late dad.

The Biden administration has begun notifying governors and state refugee coordinators about how many Afghan evacuees from the first group of nearly 37,000 arrivals are slated to be resettled in their states.

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A man posed as an admirer, using the crisis in Afghanistan in an effort to gain a South Florida woman’s trust. But she’d end up losing tens of thousands of dollars instead. NBC 6’s Willard Shepard reports

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.”

Officials say at least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are heading to the Persian Gulf to begin managing a transition to post-Afghan war relationships with traditional allies in the Middle East and beyond who were partners in the failed war against the Taliban and the concluding evacuation.

Afghan female filmmakers who fled the Taliban are begging the world to not forget the Afghan people and to support its artists

A U.S. official says the United States plans to send Afghan evacuees who require more screening to a site in Kosovo

The Afghanistan war ended with an odd unity between sworn enemies — the Taliban and the Americans.

At least two Afghans who were evacuated to the U.S. will be sent to Kosovo for more review, but that does not mean they necessarily pose a terror threat.

U.S. officials are looking into reports that in the frantic evacuation of desperate Afghans from Kabul, older men were admitted together with young girls they claimed as “brides” or otherwise sexually abused

For weeks, we’ve seen images of Americans and Afghans clamoring at a Kabul airport to evacuate a country now being governed by the Taliban. Among those evacuees was 10-year-old Noman Mujtaba. “He says the trip obviously was good because he made it home, however, he did fly out in a military plane, which means everybody was packed like sardines...

A South Florida couple had been working for years to adopt an Afghan boy — and the process took an unexpected turn when the country fell to the Taliban. NBC’s Jamie Guirola reports

Top Biden administration officials say the United States has the capacity to evacuate the approximately 300 U.S. citizens remaining in Afghanistan who want to leave before President Joe Biden’s Tuesday deadline

U.S. officials say a drone strike has blown up a vehicle carrying “multiple suicide bombers” from Afghanistan’s Islamic State affiliate before they could attack Kabul’s international airport