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North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward Japan on Monday in its second weapons test in three days.

U.S. military carried out airstrikes in eastern Syria that targeted areas used by militias backed by Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard.

The Taliban on Saturday ruled out cooperation with the United States to contain extremist groups in Afghanistan

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The United Nations, meanwhile, hosted a donors conference to drum up emergency funds for beleaguered Afghans who could soon face widespread hunger after decades of conflict.

Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities will allow between 100 and 150 Westerners, including Americans, to fly out from Kabul in the coming hours, Qatari officials said Thursday, marking the airport’s first such flight since US forces withdrew from the country.

For more than two decades, the United States and its allies spent hundreds of millions of dollars building databases for the Afghan people.

The Taliban were in full control of Kabul’s international airport on Tuesday, after the last US plane left its runway, marking the end of America’s longest war.

The US and coalition forces have handed over control of three gates, including the entrance to the military section, of Kabul's airport, to Taliban members, a Taliban official told local media Sunday.

American forces working under heightened security and threats of another attack pressed ahead with the evacuation from Kabul’s airport Friday