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An American and a U.S. resident have been freed from detention in Afghanistan, the State Department said on Friday, and one of the pair identified themselves as brothers who were engaged in humanitarian work when the Taliban arrested them.

Tech like fingerprint and iris scanners left after the U.S. withdrawal last year is now in the hands of a group that certainly shouldn't have them.

Safi Rauf and his brother were held in Afghanistan for 105 days.

Safi Rauf and his brother Anees Khalil had been in captivity since December

Someone forgot to tie him to his Oval Office chair, and so it was that President Joe Biden took off for Europe to discuss the Ukraine horror with NATO and European leaders, visit Poland and fumble enough rhetorically to conceivably make the situation worse.

Conference raises only $2.44bn as Russian foreign minister says west is responsible for country’s humanitarian crisis

Small, private groups are working to feed the hungry and evacuate the endangered.

Russia’s war against Ukraine has resulted in more than 4 million Ukrainian refugees fleeing the country.

The UN's aid coordination office, backed by Britain, Germany and Qatar, is launching its biggest-ever appeal for funds for a single country in hopes of collecting $4.4 billion to help Afghanistan, a decidedly ambitious call to assist the impoverished country again run by Taliban militants when much of the world´s…

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Dire economic situation sees children dying of starvation as millions of Afghans struggle to put food on their tables.