Tag: Afghanistan

U.S soldiers stand guard inside the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 16, 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac at the airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto the American military jet as it took off and plunged to death.

Beltway Confidential

Perishing hope for Afghan asylum-seekers

Beth Bailey · January 14, 2022 10:15 am

Air Force remains mum on investigation into human remains found on flight out of Afghanistan

Mike Brest · January 13, 2022 5:49 pm

Afghan refugees arrive.

Roughly 18,000 Afghan refugees remain on US bases months after withdrawal

Mike Brest · January 11, 2022 10:57 pm

UN requests $5 billion to stabilize Afghanistan

Ryan King · January 11, 2022 5:14 pm

US to provide $308 million in aid for Afghans

Christopher Hutton · January 11, 2022 2:22 pm

Afghan women gather outside a makeshift clinic organised by World Vision at an IDP settlement near Herat, Afghanistan, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2021.

Beltway Confidential

Taliban assaults on unaccompanied women signal worsening conditions

Beth Bailey · January 10, 2022 11:30 am

This image shows a U.S. Marine grabbing an infant over a fence of barbed wire during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Aug. 19, 2021

Afghan baby found and reunited with family after being handed to US Marine at Kabul airport

Elizabeth Faddis · January 9, 2022 5:05 pm

White House Report Card: Starts like 2021 ended, bad polls, COVID fail

Paul Bedard · January 8, 2022 5:14 pm

Internally displaced Afghans wait in line to receive firewood donated by Welt Hunger Hilfe 'German Agro Action' in Kabul, Afghanistan, Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. Around 240 internally displaced families received firewood. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Private efforts to get vulnerable people out of Afghanistan running on fumes

Mike Brest · January 8, 2022 11:45 am

The Islamic State has set up a caliphate in a large swath of Iraq and a part of Syria since the 2011 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq. (Militant website via AP)

Defense officials fear ISIS-K and al Qaeda threats in Afghanistan growing as months go by

Mike Brest · January 7, 2022 12:00 pm

Magazine - Life & Arts

Re-up? You’re crazy!

Trent Reedy · January 7, 2022 4:00 am

A Nigerien soldier provides rear security for his squad while they performed a dismounted patrol during Exercise Flintlock 2017 in Diffa, Niger, March 11, 2017. Flintlock exercises strengthen security institutions, promote multilateral sharing of information, and develop interoperability among partner nations in the Trans-Sahara.

Magazine - Washington Briefing

Why no one was punished for fatally flawed US airstrike that mistakenly targeted an innocent man

Jamie McIntyre · January 7, 2022 4:00 am