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Biden decided in mid-April that all US troops must be out of Afghanistan by September 11, though he later moved that date up to August 21.

AFGHANISTAN-DISTRICT CONTROL Chart. The Taliban's swift offensive through Afghanistan stunned American officials. Their control over districts accelerated rapidly following the start of U.S. troop withdrawals from the country. The following digital embed...

Blinken and Lavrov talked the security situation and efforts to bring US citizens and vulnerable Afghans to safety, the department said in a statement.

On Thursday Jake Davison, 22, shot and killed five people -- including his mother and a three-year-old girl -- in Plymouth in southwest England before taking his own life.

At a meeting with her CDU-CSU party leadership, Merkel said NATO's decision to pull out after almost two decades of deployment was "ultimately made by the Americans", and that "domestic political reasons" were partly to blame.

Fellow Dubai state-owned carrier Flydubai earlier has also suspended flights to Kabul.

Sources told News18 that Taliban have started entering individual houses, and asking for car keys. A source said that they stole some TV sets from a truck on Sunday.

News18 had earlier quoted its sources as saying that Ashraf Ghani was planning to flee Afghanistan along with his family members, while vice president Amrullah Saleh was against the move.

As the insurgents swept through the north in a surprise offensive targeting Afghanistan's anti-Taliban bastion, President Ashraf Ghani called for a national mobilisation of militia forces.

President Ashraf Ghani, who spoke to the nation Saturday for the first time since the offensive began, appears increasingly isolated as well.

The quake destroyed hundreds of thousands of homes, as well as administrative buildings and schools, not to mention 60 percent of Haiti's health care system.

A bus crashed on the New York State Thruway in central New York on Saturday with 57 people aboard, state police said. There was no immediate word on the number or severity of any injuries.

There have been reports that have alleged that Ghani will resign from his post.

The National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin said the United States faces a "heightened threat environment" from both domestic terrorists "and those inspired or motivated by foreign terrorists

El Salvador's vice president criticized international financial markets on Friday after government bonds took a tumble on the disclosure of a constitutional reform plan that includes extending the president's term.

MyPillow chief executive Mike Lindell says he was aggressively poked by someone seeking a selfie in Sioux Falls, South Dakota this week, which led him to say he was attacked.