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MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images(NEW YORK) -- Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba -- Twenty years after 9/11, the trial of the alleged mastermind of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, ...

iStock/MoreISO(MOSCOW) -- One of Belarus' top opposition figures, who helped lead massive protests against authoritarian leader Alexander Lukashenko last year, has been sentenced to 11 years in jail b...

christophe_cerisier/iStock(NEW YORK) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the country, including the Kabul airport...

Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images(TOKYO) -- Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga will not seek re-election as president of the country's Liberal Democratic Party, effectively ending his term as prime...

NCHANT/iStock(AUCKLAND, New Zealand) -- New Zealand is reeling from a knife-wielding rampage at a busy Auckland supermarket that left six fighting for their lives and the assailant dead. Authorities h...

David M. Benett/Dave Benett/Getty Images for Hugo Boss UK(LONDON) -- Prince Harry gave an impassioned speech at an awards ceremony last night, pleading with governments and pharmaceutical companies to...

christophe_cerisier/iStock(LONDON) -- At one minute before midnight local time on Aug. 31, the last U.S. servicemember was withdrawn from Afghanistan. It marked the end to almost two decades of war an...

Andreas Rentz/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- For the thousands of Afghan evacuees bound for the U.S., their rescue flights to America were just one more step in a long journey, but for the airline crews ...

Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHNGTON) -- When the young boy, just 13 or 14 years-old, was safely inside the gates of Kabul's international airport, U.S. State Department officials...

AndreyPopov/iStock (NEW YORK) -- A group of Afghans has been trapped for three weeks at the edge of a forest on the border between Poland and Belarus, caught in a no man's land between Polish sec...