Austin activated Stage 1 of the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, created in 1952 after the Berlin airlift, to provide 18 airliners to help ferry passengers arriving at bases in West Asia from Afghanistan...
Farid Mamundzay believes that only good leadership, compassionate attitude and international support to the Afghan people would bring an end to ‘miseries’...
From exile in the US, Afghan writer Khaled Hosseini says, we cannot allow our partners — the US has been calling the Afghan people “our partners” for 20 years — to be murdered...
Despite assurances of amnesty by the regime, a growing number of reports indicate that Taliban are searching for Afghan reporters and in some cases targeting them or members or their families...
By James C. McKinley Jr., Michael M. Grynbaum, Tiffany Hsu, Katie Robertson
in New York