Team preparing decades-long mission to release Fukushima water into ocean

Water that is treated but still radioactive from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant will soon be released into the ocean in a decades-long mission.

Taliban say they took last Afghan province held by resistance fighters

The Taliban say they have taken control of the last holdout of anti-Taliban forces in the country and the only province the Taliban had not seized during their sweep of Afghanistan last month.

Guinea's president detained in apparent coup d'etat

The country’s borders were closed and its constitution was declared invalid in the announcement read aloud on state television by army Col. Mamadi Doumbouya, who told Guineans: “The duty of a soldier is to save the country.”

Planes with evacuees unable to leave Afghanistan, unclear as to why

At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban's takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday.

Afghanistan and the Taliban: From 9/11 to today

Twenty years ago, Taliban-led Afghanistan fell to a U.S.-led coalition in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks. For Afghans, that means 20 years of change in an arc that's run from early hope to despair.

Sheriff, senator help Sarasota County deputy rescue 33 family members from Afghanistan

Before he wore a badge, Deputy Mubarak worked as a translator for the U.S. military in Afghanistan. Thirty-three out of 34 of his family members made it safely to the airport; sadly, his father died of an apparent heart attack.

Biden signs executive order to declassify some 9/11 documents

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order directing the FBI to declassify documents related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

New Zealand attack: Police kill 'terrorist' after 6 stabbed at supermarket

New Zealand authorities say they shot and killed a violent extremist after he entered a supermarket and stabbed and injured six shoppers.

'Disgust, depression, disbelief' for retired Special Forces veteran

The scenes from Afghanistan are particularly hard to watch for many who served there. For Stuart Bradin, his feelings boil down to three words.

Bill would award medals to 13 US service members killed in Kabul

The proposed bill seeks to award posthumous Congressional Gold Medals to the 13 U.S. service members who were killed in a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport on Aug. 26.

Biden defends departure from Afghanistan, ending 'forever war'

President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, defending the U.S. military airlift to extract some 120,000 Afghans, Americans and other allies to end a 20-year war, calling it an “extraordinary success."

Who is the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan?

A photo showing the last U.S. soldier to leave Afghanistan has gone viral, but who is he?

Tampa man continues effort to extract Afghan interpreters after official US departure

A Tampa man is continuing his work to help Afghans find asylum after the attack at the Hamid Karzai Airport and the last US plane leaves the embattled country.

North Korea appears to resume nuclear weapons fuel production, IAEA says

The U.N. atomic agency says North Korea appears to have restarted the operation of its main nuclear reactor used to produce weapons fuels.

Afghanistan war ends as last US plane leaves Kabul airport, officials say

The United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war and closing a sad two-decade chapter in military history.