Afghanistan

Clarissa Ward is CNN's chief international correspondent and the author of the memoir On All Fronts.

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What It's Like To Be A Woman Reporting On The Taliban: 'They Don't Look At You'

3:56pm August 26, 2021

by Terry Gross

CNN correspondent Clarissa Ward says educated Afghan women fear they will lose everything under Taliban rule. "Based on my experience with the Taliban, you can't expect them to change," she says.

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A U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster transport plane carrying medical supplies lands in Moscow in May 2020. The same type of plane airlifted refugees from Afghanistan this past week — one of whom gave birth on the aircraft.

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A Baby Born To Mom Fleeing Afghanistan Is Named After The Evacuation Flight

2:06pm August 26, 2021

by Nell Clark

An Afghan baby girl born during a U.S. evacuation flight has been named "Reach," after the cargo jet's call sign, Reach 828.

U.S soldiers stand guard at the airport tower near an evacuation control checkpoint during ongoing evacuations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday. The U.S. Embassy warns Americans not to go to the airport, citing s

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The U.S. Embassy Urges Americans Outside The Kabul Airport To Leave Immediately

8:36pm August 25, 2021

by Vanessa Romo

"Because of security threats outside the gates of Kabul airport, we are advising U.S. citizens to avoid traveling to the airport and to avoid airport gates at this time," the U.S. Embassy said

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi speaks at a Wednesday press conference at the U.S. Capitol. Pelosi said lawmakers divert resources from evacuations in Afghanistan by traveling to the region.

Pelosi Condemns 2 Lawmakers For Taking A 'Secret' Trip To Afghanistan

6:01pm August 25, 2021

by Elena Moore

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., criticized Reps. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., and Peter Meijer, R-Mich., for traveling to Kabul, characterizing the choice to enter the region as "deadly serious."

Staff members at the Kabul Small Animal Rescue are working to put together travel crates so the organization's dogs and cats can safely be evacuated out of Afghanistan.

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An Animal Rescue Group Is Racing To Get Hundreds Of Pets Out Of Afghanistan By Aug. 31

8:58am August 25, 2021

by Jaclyn Diaz

Kabul Small Animal Rescue's American director is raising money to airlift more than 200 dogs and cats, the group's staff and their families before foreign troops leave at the end of the month.

President Biden addresses the situation in Afghanistan from the White House's Roosevelt Room on Tuesday.

Biden Says The U.S. Is On Pace To Leave Afghanistan By The Aug. 31 Deadline

7:06pm August 24, 2021

by Elena Moore

The president told G-7 leaders that the U.S. is set to finish withdrawing from Afghanistan by Aug. 31 and asked the Pentagon and State Department for contingency plans if the deadline cannot be met.

Airbnb worked with partners over the weekend to place 165 refugees in housing shortly after they arrived in the United States.

Airbnb Will Provide Housing To 20,000 Afghan Refugees Around The World For Free

1:33pm August 24, 2021

by Jonathan Franklin

Aid groups say there's an urgent need for housing for tens of thousands refugees from Afghanistan as they begin to resettle around the world.

Taliban fighters search a vehicle at a checkpoint on the road in the Wazir Akbar Khan neighborhood in the city of Kabul, Afghanistan in August.

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At-Risk Afghans Who Fear The Taliban Hunker Down And Wait To Leave

3:50am August 24, 2021

by The Associated Press

Those huddled in their homes and in safe houses around Kabul include activists, employees of the collapsed Afghan government and women.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with Afghan Taliban leader Abdul Ghani Baradar in Tianjin, China, on July 28.

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Here's What A Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan May Mean For China

8:53pm August 23, 2021

What Beijing has offered the Taliban so far is an open hand and a hint of legitimacy. Taliban leaders have pledged to leave Chinese interests alone and not to harbor anti-China extremist groups.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong hold a joint news conference in Singapore Monday, Aug. 23, 2021.

The Focus Must Stay On Evacuations, Not On The Exit From Afghanistan, Harris Says

6:48am August 23, 2021

by The Associated Press

The vice president spoke at a news conference in Singapore alongside Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who offered the use of his country's air force to assist with evacuations.