Afghanistan

In an extremely rare intervention, the Justice Department said the adoption could be seen as “endorsing an act of international child abduction."
“The stuff that was coming up was from 1997, from the age of 12,” Harry says in a new Netflix docuseries.
The attack at Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan that killed at least 44 and wounded nearly 200 was aimed at weakening the Islamist party, a senior leader said.
The Taliban says all beauty salons in Afghanistan must now close as a one-month deadline ended, despite rare public opposition to the edict.
The Arkansas Republican has introduced a bill tying help for Afghans who supported the U.S. to limits on President Biden's immigration policies.
A State Department report says the department failed to do enough contingency planning before the collapse of the U.S.-backed government in Afghanistan.
Sanctions are related to terrorism, human rights abuse and drug trafficking.
Ben Roberts-Smith unlawfully killed prisoners and committed other war crimes in Afghanistan, a judge ruled in dismissing claims he was defamed by media.
Protests have broken out worldwide as critics worry the talks will lead to legitimizing the Taliban regime despite the group’s stance on women’s rights.
Processing delays and application backlogs had left thousands of Afghans in the U.S. approaching the deadline for their humanitarian parole.