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Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says Canada will not issue a blanket exemption to terrorism laws for humanitarian workers in places such as Afghanistan, saying the approach taken by Canada’s peers risks abuse. “The approach…

Over 30,000 Afghan refugees have now arrived in Canada since their country fell to the Taliban, the federal government said Wednesday after the latest flight arrived from Pakistan at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport. The flight…

The United Nations said Tuesday it is reviewing its presence in Afghanistan after the Taliban barred Afghan women from working for the world organization — a veiled suggestion the U.N. could move to suspend its mission and…

Two years of waiting were over.  On a rainy Saturday afternoon in Knoxville, Tennessee, in a busy gas station parking lot, U.S. Army Platoon Commander Kristen St. Pierre was reunited with someone she hadn't seen since she left…

NBC News White House Correspondent Kristen Welker pressed National Security Council spokesman John Kirby on Thursday regarding a newly released report on the lessons learned from the deadly U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, which…

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers banned female Afghan employees of the United Nations from working in the country Tuesday, putting millions of vulnerable households that rely on the global body's humanitarian operations at additional…

Malala Yousafzai on Taliban's education ban…

Afghanistan's Taliban regime arrested a well-known education campaigner this week for his work and for holding "meetings with Westerners," as the Islamic hardliners continue their efforts to stamp out dissent and keep girls out of…

Republican Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) joined Newsmax early Monday morning and offered his thoughts on U.S. military involvement in Syria, wrongly explaining that the U.S. is fighting the Taliban in Syria and claiming the U.S.…

An explosion near Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul killed at least six people Monday in the latest attack appearing to target the country's ruling Taliban regime. The blast left many more wounded as it struck as…