Once promised a move to the United States, Afghan refugees who helped U.S. forces say they face ‘bad or worse’ options: resettlement to Congo or returning home to live under the Taliban.

The suspect, charged with five counts of murder, is accused of killing or ordering the killings of unarmed civilians during the Afghan war.

Dennis Walter Coyle, a researcher from Colorado, had been held since last year by the Taliban government.

New, friendly media operations and expanded state-run television are pushing Pakistan’s message while independent news outlets face repression.

The war in Iran is choking off Afghanistan’s main economic lifeline and has forced at least 70,000 Afghan workers and students there back home to a nation embroiled in another conflict.

The attack hit a drug rehabilitation facility, Afghanistan said, suggesting that civilians were among the victims. Pakistan said it had targeted a weapons depot.

Pakistani airstrikes have killed at least 75 civilians and displaced 115,000 in Afghanistan, with both sides vowing escalation and no talks in sight.

In a 40-year career as an international correspondent for The New York Times, Mr. Burns had a talent for capturing the sweep of history in intricate detail.

JD Vance long championed opposition to conflicts abroad. With President Trump all-in on war with Iran, the vice president is staying loyal even as allies make his qualms known.

Satellite imagery showed flattened warehouses at the base that served as the nerve center of America’s 20-year war in Afghanistan, a prized asset for the Taliban.