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U.S. State Department urges U.S. citizens to leave area of Kabul airport immediately, citing specific, credible threat.

The Taliban have deployed extra forces around Kabul’s airport to prevent large crowds from gathering after a deadly suicide attack two days earlier.

President Biden said Saturday’s retaliatory drone strike against ISIS-K in Afghanistan won’t be the last measure the United States takes against the group.

Nearly all of the U.S. service members killed in the Kabul airport attack were in their early 20s, meaning they had been just young children when U.S. forces first entered Afghanistan in 2001.

The Pentagon says two Islamic State group members were killed in a drone strike in eastern Afghanistan, not one as initially reported.

Two men died after each was administered a dose of Moderna Inc.'s COVID-19 vaccine that was among lots later suspended from use following the discovery of contaminants.

U.S. Central Command said the U.S. conducted a drone strike against an Islamic State member in Nangahar believed to be involved in planning attacks against the U.S. in Kabul.

The United States military struck back at the Islamic State on Saturday, bombing an IS member in Afghanistan less than 48 hours after a devastating suicide bombing claimed by the group killed as many as 169 Afghans and 13 American service members at the Kabul airport.

The U.S. continued with evacuations in Kabul on Friday with tighter security measures amid warnings of more possible attacks.

Rylee McCollum, a US Marine from Wyoming, was among the 13 American service members killed in the horrific suicide bombing at the Kabul airport. His family said his wife is expected to give birth to their baby in just three weeks.

President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that diplomacy was his first option, but that he would consider other options if his effort to revive the Iran nuclear deal fails.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Kareem Mae'Lee Grant Nikoui was one of the 13 U.S. servicemembers killed in action while stationed at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday.

U.N. refugee agency said Friday that a half-million people or more could flee Afghanistan in a “worst-case scenario” in the coming months.

Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has renewed her calls to impeach President Joe Biden after the deaths of over a dozen U.S. service members in a deadly suicide bombing at the Kabul airport.

“Nobody is doing well,” said Fraidoon Hassemi, an Afghan who works as a community liaison who has spoken to the families. “They are trying their best to get to the airport, get to their gates and get on an airplane. The situation is very horrible.”

The company said Tuesday that it would be covering the cost of temporary housing for 20,000 refugees

Japan is suspending use of about 1.63 million doses of Moderna vaccine after contamination was found in some unused vials.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., delivered scathing remarks following President Joe Biden’s press conference from the White House after the deadly suicide bombings at Kabul airport on Thursday, saying the president was lacking transparency and a plan of action for the American people.