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Live updates: Iran and Israel trade strikes as conflict rages | CNN

Live updates: Iran and Israel trade strikes as conflict rages | CNN

Live updates: Israel hits Beirut and Tehran as Trump warns Iran of escalated strikes | CNN

Live updates: Israel hits Beirut and Tehran as Trump warns Iran of escalated strikes | CNN

The latest on tensions in the Middle East: Live updates | CNN

The latest on tensions in the Middle East: Live updates | CNN

An Afghan interpreter living in the US tells CNN about the difficulties of trying to get his family out of Afghanistan and says he feels disrespected by the US effort to evacuate its citizens and Afghan allies from Kabul. | CNN

An Afghan interpreter living in the US tells CNN about the difficulties of trying to get his family out of Afghanistan and says he feels disrespected by the US effort to evacuate its citizens and Afghan allies from Kabul. | CNN

97.3K viewsAug 20, 2021

Live updates: Israel attacks Iran, explosions in Tel Aviv and Tehran, US position | CNN

Live updates: Israel attacks Iran, explosions in Tel Aviv and Tehran, US position | CNN

"I'm glad we're getting out of there, but it's really sad," says wounded special ops. veteran Jimmy Hatch of the US withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. "It makes me think about the folks who lost their lives there and the people who got hurt and people who come home and have, you know, mental health issues and emotional issues because of their exposure to it." | CNN

"I'm glad we're getting out of there, but it's really sad," says wounded special ops. veteran Jimmy Hatch of the US withdrawing troops from Afghanistan. "It makes me think about the folks who lost their lives there and the people who got hurt and people who come home and have, you know, mental health issues and emotional issues because of their exposure to it." | CNN

74.4K viewsJul 9, 2021

Video shows 22 Afghan commandos executed by the Taliban

CNNMatt Zabriskie

CNN gets access to a US military base seized by the Taliban, where American efforts in Afghanistan have turned to dust. Clarissa Ward reports https://cnn.it/3shIAl2 | CNN

169K viewsAug 14, 2021

The US is sending more than 3,000 troops to Afghanistan to assist with the departure of embassy staff after urging American citizens to leave the country "immediately." The Taliban has seized 12 provincial capitals in Afghanistan so far in an unrelenting sweep across the country, raising fears for the country’s fate. These Taliban gains come just weeks before US troops are scheduled to complete their withdrawal. | CNN

94.3K viewsAug 12, 2021

When the Taliban took over Kabul, “everyone was afraid and scared,” says Haroon Zarify, a US citizen who escaped Afghanistan. “Everyone was trying to get themselves to the airport … [and] there was no flights. It was a mess.” He said the Taliban was shooting and setting off flash bombs outside the airport. Other members of his extended family still remain stuck in the country. https://cnn.it/2UMBDMG | CNN

137.9K viewsAug 25, 2021

The American flag at the US embassy in Kabul was taken down Sunday, marking a final step in the evacuation of the diplomatic compound, days earlier than US officials initially projected, according to a source familiar with the situation. Get the latest on Afghanistan https://cnn.it/37MUyKm | CNN

304.9K viewsAug 15, 2021

"Bring our Americans home, their families home, these translators. A translator saved my life on my first deployment, and I won't stop until we've gotten these folks home. I hope the government, for all of its resources and capabilities, it would be nice if they would do it, instead of me." - Former Army Intelligence Officer Sam Rogers on the work he and his fellow veterans are doing to help rescue Americans and Afghan partners from Afghanistan | CNN

76.9K viewsSep 1, 2021

Ismail Khan, a former interpreter for US troops in Afghanistan who was on the show last night, is headed back to help former colleagues and family escape the Taliban. “I had to go to help,” he said. “…I have a moral obligation that I need to keep the American promise.” | CNN

110.1K viewsAug 20, 2021

President Biden delivered remarks from the White House on the end of the war in Afghanistan, a day after the last American military planes left the country, concluding the nation’s longest war nearly 20 years after it began. | CNN

84.5K viewsAug 31, 2021

Afghanistan's former President, Ashraf Ghani, is in the United Arab Emirates, its foreign ministry said in a statement. News of his whereabouts comes days after he fled Kabul as the Taliban closed in on the city. Ghani reiterated that he left the country to avoid bloodshed. | CNN

66.9K viewsAug 18, 2021

CNN speaks with Mohammad, a former employee of the US embassy in Afghanistan, about his struggles to get his trapped wife and children out of the country. | CNN

57.9K viewsAug 25, 2021

Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to a new immediate ceasefire during talks in Doha, Qatar's foreign ministry said. Both countries will stop fighting and work toward "lasting peace and stability" after more than a week of deadly clashes, according to the ministry. https://cnn.it/4qo0eBC | CNN

20.3K views6 months ago

President Biden defiantly defended his administration's execution of the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan, saying that he doesn't think the crisis represents a failure and there was no way to better handle the drawdown. The President said he thought chaos in the country was inevitable after US troops departed. "The idea that somehow, there's a way to have gotten out without chaos ensuing, I don't know how that happens," he told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. | CNN

143.7K viewsAug 18, 2021

Here’s an update on “Sara,” an American trying to escape Afghanistan, bringing vulnerable women & children with her “I am confident that we will get her out, it’s going to be a rigorous activity,” says fmr. Army Intel Officer Sam Rogers as he works to extract her and others. | CNN

174.1K viewsSep 2, 2021

CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward describes the scene in Kabul right now, only a couple of days after the Taliban has taken control of Afghanistan's capital. | CNN

442.2K viewsAug 17, 2021

Afghanistan Live Updates: 20-Year U.S. War Ending as It Began, With Taliban Ruling Afghanistan

NY TimesRuhullah Khapalwak

CNN speaks with former Afghan translator Hewad Hemat about the situation in Afghanistan as thousands are attempting to flee the country after the Taliban's rise to power. | CNN

75.4K viewsAug 18, 2021

Freelance Afghan journalist Nazira Karimi tells CNN she receives phone calls daily from people inside Afghanistan desperate to get out. | CNN

114.1K viewsAug 24, 2021

Hundreds of people poured onto the tarmac at Kabul's international airport, desperately seeking a route out of Afghanistan, after the Taliban's sudden seizure of power sparked a chaotic Western withdrawal and brought to a crashing end the United States' two-decade mission in the country. | CNN

239.4K viewsAug 16, 2021

Footage shows chaos at Kabul International Airport as hundreds try to flee the besieged Afghan capital as Taliban forces move in https://cnn.it/2VWjxZ6 | CNN International

2.8M viewsAug 16, 2021

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President Biden began his address to the nation by saying that the situation in Afghanistan is "rapidly evolving." He said the White House's national security team is "closely monitoring the situation on the ground." Biden said he wants to remind the country "how we got here and what America's interests are in Afghanistan." He said that the US mission in Afghanistan that started two decades ago "was never supposed to have been nation building." | CNN

511K viewsAug 16, 2021

Afghan reporter Nazira Karimi makes an emotional plea to Pentagon spokesman John Kirby at the Pentagon briefing after the Taliban's taking of Kabul. | CNN

222K viewsAug 16, 2021

A massive explosion rocked Afghanistan's capital of Kabul last week igniting one of the bloodiest border conflicts between Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan in decades. CNN's Sophia Saifi reports. Read more: https://cnn.it/47rYxeF | CNN

17.8K views6 months ago

The Taliban are said to have seized at least 26 of Afghanistan's provincial capitals, including the capital of Kabul, since the beginning of August. Latest updates: https://cnn.it/3yRi04N | CNN

577.3K viewsAug 16, 2021

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