NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with former U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta about the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan as the the deadline approaches.
As the Taliban makes rapid gains in Afghanistan, about 3,000 troops will be sent to Kabul to aid in the evacuation of Americans from the embassy, thousands more will be deployed as backup if needed.
North Korea has threatened a "security crisis" if Seoul and Washington proceed with planned military drills next week. If it chooses military provocation, Pyongyang has plenty of new weapons to test.
She's one of 110 girls in a boarding program run by the Veerni Institute in India. When lockdowns hit, they were sent home to their villages, where child marriage is rampant.
NPR's Noel King talks to former U.S. CENTCOM Commander Gen. Joseph Votel about the Taliban's rapid advances, and what an Afghan government collapse would mean for the U.S.
The country's Ministry of Culture and Tourism says it is creating a blacklist of banned songs containing "illegal content" that it deems "subversive" at karaoke establishments starting Oct. 1.
Michael Spavor was found guilty of espionage in a case condemned by Western diplomats as political hostage-taking related to the detention in Canada of Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou.
More than a million Rohingya refugees who fled a military crackdown in nearby Myanmar and have spent years in camps in Bangladesh are vulnerable to COVID-19. Now the government is vaccinating them.