Category Archives: World News – ABC Audio
Iowa woman on her husband's 50-hour journey home to his family from Sudan conflict
Jacy Bunnell Ahmed(NEW YORK) -- Mohamed Ahmed went back to Sudan for the first time in 13 years for his father's funeral earlier this month. He was scheduled to come back to his family in Cedar Rapids...
Apr 26, 2023
Couple's elderly parents who were caught in Sudanese conflict crossfire now in Egypt
Family Handout(NEW YORK) -- Family members of two U.S. citizens who were trapped in Sudan and had to endure major obstacles to leave the country are grateful they're now in Egypt. Imad, a Bay area res...
Apr 26, 2023
Taliban kills suspected ISIS-K mastermind of Kabul airport bombing: US officials
Yagi Studio/Getty Images(AFGHANISTAN) -- The terrorist allegedly responsible for planning the August 2021 bombing at the Kabul, Afghanistan, airport that killed 13 U.S. service members and at least 17...
Apr 25, 2023
World's second-largest tobacco company to pay over $600 million for violating sanctions against North Korea
Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- The world's second-largest tobacco company has agreed to pay what the Department of Justice is saying is "the single largest North Korean sancti...
Apr 25, 2023
Paul Whelan's sister describes moment she met eyes with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
ABC News(NEW YORK) -- Elizabeth Whelan said she was "surprised" to meet the eyes of Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council in New York City on M...
Apr 25, 2023
First photos of evacuation of US embassy in Sudan released by US military
Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Maria A. Olvera Tristán via U.S Navy(WASHINGTON) -- U.S. military officials released two handout photos of the evacuation of the U.S. embassy staff from ...
Apr 25, 2023
As Sudan cease-fire announced, some Americans still struggling to escape
State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy/ Public Domain(WASHINGTON) -- After intense negotiations, the Sudanese Armed Forces & Rapid Support Forces had agreed to implement a 72-hour cease-fire...
Apr 25, 2023
Sudan conflict sparks mass exodus of foreigners as locals remain trapped in crossfire
kdow/Getty Images(LONDON) -- Fighting in Sudan between forces loyal to two rival generals has triggered a mass exodus of foreigners, while locals struggle to escape. As of Tuesday evening, one America...
Apr 24, 2023
US embassy staff in Sudan evacuated in 'fast and clean' operation amid fighting
ABC News(KHARTOUM, Sudan) -- Under pitch black conditions and amid fighting, U.S. military forces, including the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six, swooped into war-torn Sudan and evacuated the American emba...
Apr 23, 2023
'We are holding on': Scars of war visible near the front in eastern Ukraine
ABC News(KOSTYANTYNIVKA, UKRAINE) -- Alina Ivanchenko and her 9-year-old daughter, Zlata, waited as long as they could before leaving the city of Kostyantynivka in eastern Ukraine. Preparing to leave ...
Apr 23, 2023
