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Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- An explosion that killed at least 13 U.S. service members in Afghanistan Thursday was part of a "complex" attack near the Kabul airpo...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(RAMSTEIN, Germany) -- In one of the largest airlift operations in history, Ramstein, Germany, has become the central hub to evacuate and process Afghan evacuees. According to t...

Sayed Khodaiberdi Sadat/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for two explosions that erupted near the Kabul airport on Thursday and killed at least 12 U...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock(WASHINGTON) -- The Taliban wrested control of more than just territory from Afghan forces as it tore through Afghanistan this month. By the time the militant group toppled Kabu...

yorkfoto/iStock(NEW YORK) -- Scientists have made an "exciting" discovery of ancient human DNA that they say will allow them to piece together the mysterious ancestry of the people in Southeast Asia. ...

Sgt. Jimmie Baker / U.S. Army via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) -- Tens of thousands of Americans, Afghans and other foreigners have been evacuated from Kabul's international airport to U.S. military insta...

U.S. Air Force(NEW YORK) -- An Afghanistan woman fleeing the Taliban in Kabul went into labor aboard a United States Air Force plane evacuating people from the country. The woman, who was not named, w...

Haroon Sabawoon/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(KABUL, Afghanistan) -- With the U.S. military and diplomatic withdrawal now complete after 20 years in Afghanistan, the Taliban has taken over the count...

iStock/123ducu (AFGHANISTAN) -- Years ago, Naqibullah had assisted the U.S. Marine Corps as a translator in Afghanistan and has since started a new life in the U.S. However, his parents and siblings r...

iStock/ffikretow (HAITI) -- The 7.2 magnitude earthquake that just devastated Haiti feels like a bad dream on repeat. Imagine waking up to an earthquake just about a decade after another quake killed ...