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A U.S. Marine drapes an American flag over the face of a statue of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Baghdad on April 9, 2003, shortly before the statue was pulled down.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 5, 2026
The Iraq War is finally over. It did some good.
About 4,500 Americans died in Iraq since 2003, around 3,500 in combat, and more than 30,000 were wounded.
Commuters riding blue taxis wait in a traffic jam in Kabul. Taxi drivers in Afghanistan are defying a Taliban government-imposed ban on music.
WORLD / Society
Sep 25, 2026
Rebellious Afghan taxi drivers defy ban on music
Despite fears of getting caught by the morality police, drivers are still listening to music as a form of protest.
Security personnel fortify a police post with Ukraine-style mesh barriers as a new line of defense against militant drone and aerial attacks at Bara in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Aug. 4.
WORLD
Sep 9, 2026
Pakistan police counter drone attacks with Ukraine-style nets
Lessons from the war in Ukraine are reverberating in Pakistan, where security forces are improvising new defenses against Islamist insurgents.
Girls study math inside a secret classroom, hidden inside a girl’s school in Afghanistan in 2026.
WORLD / Society
Aug 31, 2026
Inside Afghanistan’s secret schools for girls
Across the country, girls are risking arrest by going to school in secret, refusing to give up their fight for an education.
Afghanistan's Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi addresses a press conference at the Embassy of Afghanistan in New Delhi on Oct. 12, 2025. Taliban authorities have been busy with a foreign policy drive throughout their five years in power, steadily building international ties from Afghanistan despite multiple constraints.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 11, 2026
Five years after return, Afghan Taliban government builds diplomacy
Only Russia officially recognizes the Taliban government, with many Western countries demanding domestic reforms on human rights before considering doing the same.
Afghan girls take their midterm exams at a primary school in Kabul on July 21. Fathers in Afghanistan choked up in despair describing the education ban that stops their daughters going beyond primary school.
WORLD / Society
Aug 11, 2026
Torment of Afghan fathers as daughters deprived of education
A U.N. poll found 90% of Afghan men wanted girls to go to secondary school, with nearly two thirds considering it “pious” for fathers to support a daughter’s education.
Afghan farmers Habiba (left) and her sister Bibi Jan work in a wheat field in the Eshtiwi village of Afghanistan's Parun district June 8.
WORLD
Jul 6, 2026
The Afghan women farmers keeping their village alive
In Afghanistan, women are generally allowed to farm despite being banned by the Taliban government from most employment.
The remains of a building damaged in a Pakistani airstrike at a village in the Tsamkani district of Afghanistan's Paktia province on Monday
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 29, 2026
Pakistan strikes kill 29 militants in new Afghan border flare-up
Violence on the border between Pakistan and Afghanistan has intensified in the last month following a brief ceasefire over the Eid holiday in March.
Taliban fighters celebrate the first anniversary of the fall of Kabul in the Afghan capital on Aug. 15, 2022.
COMMENTARY / World
Jun 16, 2026
The toll on Afghanistan of five years of Taliban rule
Afghans are asking the world: How long and to what extent must the Taliban continue internal repression and support for terrorism before the world recognizes the threat?
Afghan families at Camp As Sayliyah in Qatar, in 2021. Once promised a move to the United States, Afghan refugees who helped U.S. forces say they face ‘bad or worse’ options: resettlement in Congo or returning to live under the Taliban where their lives would be in danger.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 27, 2026
Caught between wars, Afghan allies of U.S. trapped in Qatar without safe exit
The Afghans were evacuated due to their ties to the U.S. and fear of reprisals by the Taliban authorities, but processing has been halted by U.S. President Donald Trump.
Young Afghan evacuees play soccer in a residential compound in Doha, Qatar. The U.S. is offering Afghan refugees at a camp in the country the choice to emigrate to Congo or returning to their Taliban-ruled homeland, an activist has said.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 22, 2026
U.S. tells Afghans to choose Taliban-run homeland or Congo, activist says
More than 1,100 Afghans have been in limbo in a refugee processing camp in Qatar after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered a halt to a resettlement program.
Former member of Australia's elite Special Air Service regiment Ben Roberts-Smith leaves Federal Court in Sydney on May 1, 2025. Police arrested Roberts-Smith, one of Australia's most-decorated soldiers, for alleged war crimes in Afghanistan, on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Apr 7, 2026
Australia’s most decorated soldier charged with alleged war crimes
The man, whom police identified as a 47-year-old former Australian Defence Force member and court records ?named as Ben Roberts-Smith, was arrested at Sydney Airport.
Taliban officials and Afghan Red Crescent Society volunteers offer funeral prayers for victims of a Pakistani airstrike on a drug rehabilitation center, during a mass burial ceremony at the Badam Bagh Hilltop in Kabul on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 19, 2026
Pakistan and Afghanistan announce Eid ‘pause’ in hostilities
The halt in fighting came after the deadliest strike in their escalating conflict killed hundreds in Kabul earlier this week.
A member of the Taliban's security forces inspects the site of a drug rehabilitation center, after it was hit by a Pakistani airstrike, in Kabul on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 18, 2026
Afghan authorities say around 400 killed in Pakistani strike on Kabul rehab center
The two sides have been in conflict for months, with Islamabad accusing its neighbor of harboring Islamist extremists who have mounted deadly cross-border attacks on its territory.
Taliban security personnel carry a body on a blanket at the site of a damaged building after Pakistani airstrikes allegedly hit the Secondary Rehabilitation Services Center in Kabul on Monday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 17, 2026
Afghanistan accuses Pakistan of deadly airstrike on drug rehab center in Kabul
Islamabad has struck Kabul several times in recent weeks following claims Afghanistan’s Taliban government has harbored extremists who have carried out attacks across the border.
Afghan women walk toward a safer place on Sept. 3 after their house was damaged following a deadly magnitude 6 earthquake in Kunar province, Afghanistan. Women in the country have to cover up when outside the home, with only their hands and eyes visible.
WORLD / Society
Mar 10, 2026
Rituals of resilience: How Afghan women stay sane in their ‘cage’
From singing to going up into the mountains to scream, five Afghan women talked about how they cope with their lives tightly controlled by Taliban government rules.
U.K. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood arrives for a cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street in London on Tuesday.
WORLD / Politics
Mar 4, 2026
Britain to bar study visas for four nations and halt Afghan work visas
Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s government has sought to show it is tightening immigration as the populist Reform U.K. party gains ground in opinion polls.
A Taliban service member stands guard as Afghan Muslim devotees offer prayers during the Islamic holy fasting month of Ramadan along a road in Kabul on Friday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Mar 2, 2026
Blasts in Kabul as Afghan government says it is responding to Pakistani attacks
Months of cross-border clashes between Afghanistan and Pakistan have flared again since Afghanistan recently launched an offensive along the frontier.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid gestures during a news conference, following an escalation in cross-border tensions with Pakistan, in Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Friday.
WORLD
Feb 28, 2026
Afghan Taliban open to talks after Pakistan bombs Kabul and Kandahar
The latest violence erupted after Pakistan’s airstrikes on Afghan territory last weekend triggered Afghan retaliatory attacks along the border on Thursday.
A wounded Afghan woman receives treatment at a hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Friday after an overnight Pakistani mortar shell hit a camp for people returning from Pakistan. Islamabad’s defense minister has declared that the neighbors are at “open war.”
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Feb 27, 2026
Pakistan bombs Kabul in ‘open war’ on Afghanistan’s Taliban government
Relations between the neighbors have plunged since deadly fighting in October that killed more than 70 people on both sides.
Two Japanese climbers die on remote Himalayan peak in Nepal
Rescuers have recovered the bodies of two Japanese climbers missing for over a week on a remote Himalayan mountain.
Aging Japanese village turns to Peru in search of new residents
Guests from Peru's Belen district interact with a baby in Nanmoku village in Gunma Prefecture.
Budget-friendly restaurant chain Saizeriya succumbs to rising costs
A Tokyo branch of Saizeriya, a chain of family-style Italian restaurants
U.S. has for years asked Musk to alter Starlink service in Ukraine and Middle East, sources say
A Ukrainian soldier sets up a Starlink satellite internet system near the frontline in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on Oct. 16
U.S. military bans Chinese-made BYD cars from key air base in Okinawa
An F-22 Raptor lands at Kadena Air Base in Kadena, Okinawa Prefecture on Oct. 9. The base is a crucial hub for U.S. military operations in the region.
A dramatic bear hunt in a midsize Japanese city could be a harbinger of what is to come
Zookeeper Tetsuo Iso at the site of frantic search for a wild bear in Utsunomiya on June 9. Iso, 65, was asked by the prefectural government to help capture the bear and it was his shot with a tranquilizer gun that put an end to the saga.
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Tourists enjoy themselves while crossing the famous Shibuya Crossing in Tokyo on Oct. 12.
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Motorists drive through a road covered with smog from wildfires nearby in Ogan Ilir in Indonesia's South Sumatra province on Sept. 25.
Baku championships showcase rising standards in global sumo
Ryan Roddy (second from left back) is pictured with the Ireland sumo team at this month's World Sumo Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
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