Kabul

A Taliban-appointed spokesman for the Kabul police chief says a suicide bomber has killed 19 people and wounded 27 at an education center in a Shiite area of the Afghan capital.

Russia’s state news agency says that a blast went off outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul, killing two members of the embassy staff.

The support system designed to welcome Afghan evacuees to the U.S. was overwhelmed by their numbers. Roshan Mashal’s family was one of many that slipped through the cracks.

President Joe Biden is calling for the release of U.S. Navy veteran Mark Frerichs, who was taken hostage in Afghanistan nearly two years ago.

Afghanistan’s former president says he had just minutes to decide to flee in the hours before the Taliban took control of the capital in August.

The strike came during the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, which President Joe Biden had ordered in April.