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Afghans wait and worry at US bases after frantic evacuation

The former interpreter for the U.S. Army counts himself among the lucky as an Afghan who managed to make it through frantic crowds outside the Kabul airport to board a military evacuation flight out of the country with little more than the clothes on his back. Esrar Ahmad Saber now waits,...

IMF envoy meets Lebanon PM, parliament reconvenes

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati met on Tuesday with members of an International Monetary Fund delegation. The delegation was headed by Ernesto Ramirez-Rigo, the International Monetary Fund's head of mission for Pakistan, Middle East and Central Asia. The IMF resumed talks after the...

China says US diplomatic boycott violates Olympic spirit

BEIJING (AP) — China accused the United States of violating the Olympic spirit on Tuesday after the Biden administration announced a diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Games over human rights concerns. Rights groups have pushed for a full-blown boycott of the Games, accusing China of...

Whistleblower: As Afghanistan fell, UK abandoned supporters

 Britain’s Foreign Office abandoned many of the nation’s allies in Afghanistan and left them to the mercy of the Taliban during the fall of the capital, Kabul, because of a dysfunctional and arbitrary evacuation effort, a whistleblower alleged Tuesday. In devastating evidence to a...