Team preparing decades-long mission to release Fukushima water into ocean

Water that is treated but still radioactive from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will soon be released into the ocean in a decades-long mission.

Taliban say they took last Afghan province held by resistance fighters

The Taliban say they have taken control of the last holdout of anti-Taliban forces in the country and the only province the Taliban had not seized during their sweep of Afghanistan last month.

Guinea's president detained in apparent coup d'etat

The country’s borders were closed and its constitution was declared invalid in the announcement read aloud on state television by army Col. Mamadi Doumbouya, who told Guineans: “The duty of a soldier is to save the country.”

Planes with evacuees unable to leave Afghanistan, unclear as to why

At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday.

Afghanistan and the Taliban: From 9/11 to today

Twenty years ago, Taliban-led Afghanistan fell to a U.S.-led coalition in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. For Afghans, that means 20 years of change in an arc that's run from early hope to despair.

More than 50,000 evacuated Afghans expected to be admitted into US

The secretary of homeland security says tens of thousands of Afghans have been admitted into the United States since the fall of Kabul and more are expected as part of an “unprecedented” evacuation.

More than 8,000 Afghan refugees at Wisconsin's Fort McCoy

More than 8,000 refugees from Afghanistan were being temporarily housed at Fort McCoy in western Wisconsin as of Friday.

New Zealand attack: Police kill 'terrorist' after 6 stabbed at supermarket

New Zealand authorities say they shot and killed a violent extremist after he entered a supermarket and stabbed and injured six shoppers.

More than 30 California children still stuck in Afghanistan

More than 30 California children are stuck in Afghanistan after they traveled to the country to see their relatives weeks before the Taliban seized power and were unable to get out before U.S. forces left, according to school districts where the kids are enrolled.

Local veteran still fighting to get US citizen stuck in Afghanistan home

For the last two-and-a-half weeks, retired Army veteran Tracy Swanson has been fighting harder than ever to ensure the safe extraction of his Afghan Interpreters and their families from Kabul.

Bill would award medals to 13 US service members killed in Kabul

The proposed bill seeks to award posthumous Congressional Gold Medals to the 13 U.S. service members who were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport on Aug. 26.

EU has fully vaccinated 70% of adults against COVID-19, officials say

The percentage of adults fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in the EU has surpassed the U.S., which has fully vaccinated 63.4% of adults.

Biden defends departure from Afghanistan, ending 'forever war'

President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, defending the U.S. military airlift to extract some 120,000 Afghans, Americans and other allies to end a 20-year war, calling it an “extraordinary success."

Who is the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan?

A photo showing the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan has gone viral, but who is he?

North Korea appears to resume nuclear weapons fuel production, IAEA says

The U.N. atomic agency says North Korea appears to have restarted the operation of its main nuclear reactor used to produce weapons fuels.

Ida downgraded to tropical depression, leaves coastal residents trapped by floodwaters

Ida struck the Louisiana coast on the same day that Hurricane Katrina did 16 years prior. Its winds tied it for the 5th-strongest hurricane to hit the mainland.

Afghanistan war ends as last US plane leaves Kabul airport, officials say

The United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war and closing a sad two-decade chapter in military history.