International pressure mounted Friday on the junta that seized power in Guinea after the African Union suspended the country and as a delegation of West African officials from the regional economic bloc came to mediate the crisis

The Lebanese presidency says a new government has been formed, breaking a 13-month deadlock that saw the country slide deeper into financial chaos and poverty

The Taliban has announced an all-male interim government for Afghanistan that is stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule from the 1990s and the 20-year battle against the U.S.-led coalition

A senior U.N. official warns that food in Afghanistan could run out this month

The Taliban are reveling in their victory after the American withdrawal from Afghanistan, while reiterating their pledge to bring peace and security to the country after decades of war

President Joe Biden is defending his handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, including the frantic final evacuation from Kabul airport

Chancellor Angela Merkel says that Germany is now focused on humanitarian aid and on helping former local Afghan staffers who weren't evacuated in the last two weeks

The U.S. State Department is urging all Americans in the vicinity of the Afghanistan’s Kabul airport to leave the area immediately because of a 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

Hundreds of Afghans have protested outside a bank in Kabul as others form long lines at cash machines