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E.U. Pledges $1.15 Billion in Afghan Aid as U.S. Talks to Taliban

WASHINGTON — World leaders met virtually on Tuesday to discuss ways of preventing an economic and humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan, but the Biden administration...

Senate to Vote on Amendment to Curtail Aid to Afghans Who Fled Taliban Rule

Senate Republicans are pressing to use a spending bill needed to keep the government open past midnight to curtail assistance to Afghans who were...

Milley, Austin Testify to a House Panel on Afghanistan

The Biden administration’s top military officials faced another congressional panel on Wednesday to answer questions from lawmakers about the chaotic end of the war...

Gen. Milley Says He Warned Biden Against Afghanistan Withdrawal

WASHINGTON — Pentagon leaders publicly acknowledged on Tuesday that they advised President Biden not to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan ahead of a chaotic...

In Biden’s Foreign Policy, Friends and Foes Claim Echoes of Trump

NEW YORK — At the United Nations’ annual gathering of world leaders this week, President Biden and Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken spoke...

How the U.S. Helped, and Hampered, the Escape of Afghan Journalists

On Aug. 20, Joel Simon, the head of the Committee to Protect Journalists, and Mr. De Dora met via Zoom with Uzra Zeya, the...

Struggle for Control of Afghanistan Comes to K Street

“No entity could receive legitimacy without the support, endorsement of his excellency Ahmad Massoud, because he is the source of legitimacy today,” said Ali...

Clarissa Ward of CNN Looks Back on the Afghanistan War

Clarissa Ward had four days to catch up on sleep and see her two sons, ages 1 and 3, at her parents’ home in...

Biden, Still Grieving His Son Beau, Finds That Not Everyone Wants to Hear About It

But, of his rocky reception with some families at Dover, Ms. Murray said, “I’m sure he understands the reaction he got better than a...

In Afghan Withdrawal, a Biden Doctrine Surfaces

WASHINGTON — In the chaotic finale of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, a Biden Doctrine is emerging: a foreign policy that avoids the aggressive...

Republicans Flip-Flop on Support for Afghanistan Withdrawal

WASHINGTON — Early last year, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House minority leader, praised former President Donald J. Trump’s deal to pull American...

Why the Taliban Desperately Need Cash to Run Afghanistan

The system functions on the premise that people want to send equivalent amounts of money between two locations. Loans and transfers are recorded on...

Pentagon Leaders Wary of Working With Taliban

WASHINGTON — Just over a day after the last American service member left Afghanistan, the Pentagon’s top two leaders expressed wariness on Wednesday about...

Biden Plays the Long Game as He Justifies the End of the ‘Forever War’

The forever war is over, but the forever debate may be only beginning. As he presided over the end of a lost 20-year mission...

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