US Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks about US policy towards China during an event hosted by the Asia Society Policy Institute at George Washington University in Washington, DC, on May 26, 2022. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has agreed to testify publicly at a House committee hearing on the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan, … Read more
A Taliban security personnel stands in the Baraki Barak district of Logar province. – AFP/File Those coming to pray “discovered the bodies”: resident. Attacks regularly target rituals and gatherings in the country. The explosion of a Sufi mosque in April 2022 killed 33 people. Kabul: Ten people were killed when a gunman opened fire on … Read more
Who are ISIS-K, the terrorist group claiming deadly Afghanistan attack? The terror group ISIS in Khorasan, known as ISIS-K, claimed responsibility for the attacks outside Kabul airport in Afghanistan, despite providing no evidence to support the claim. The attack comes as US forces withdraw from the country following the Taliban’s takeover. CNN’s Jomana Karadsheh explains … Read more
In a CNN exclusive, Anna Coren reports on one family’s dramatic and dangerous escape out of Afghanistan.