At least 27 people from a Jewish group were hospitalized Tuesday night for food poisoning upon returning to New York City from Ukraine, according to media reports.
Chaos, confusion and terror have marked the Biden administration’s Afghanistan withdrawal over the past week, with Americans and Afghan allies pleading for help escaping Taliban-controlled Kabul and uncertainty at the city’s U.S.-held airport.
In its second news conference since taking over Afghanistan, the Taliban called on the United States to stop “inviting” Afghans to flee the country and said it would block access to the Kabul airport Tuesday.
A district judge in Japan sentenced a top boss in the organized crime group, referred to as Yakuza, to death on Tuesday, a punishment believed to be the first of its kind for the mob, according to reports.
Tales of hope — and horror — are coming from Afghanistan. The pace of evacuations is definitely picking up. But there are thousands who remain stranded in Kabul, now run by the Taliban. Including many who have helped the U.S. military over the years.
A member of the U.K. Parliament questioned how President Biden will help Afghan refugees as Europe prepares to grapple with a rush of migrants fleeing the Taliban.
Israel Defense Forces announced on Twitter Monday that it carried out strikes against Hamas targets in Gaza in response to an earlier arson balloon attack.
Jocko Willink, a retired Navy SEAL, took to Instagram to post a brief video Monday imagining he was the U.S. commander-in-chief during an address to the nation about the Afghanistan calamity and steps that he would take to resolve the problem.
Afghan security forces stationed at the Kabul international airport on Monday engaged in a firefight with “unknown attackers” that resulted in the death of one Afghan officer, the German military said on Twitter.
The video of a Marine giving out sips of water to smiling Afghan children went viral on Sunday for offering a brief glimpse of hope after the catastrophic fall of Kabul about a week ago.
A network of “hundreds of thousands” of people, including analysts using satellite imagery to locate Taliban checkpoints surrounding the Kabul airport, are coordinating to evacuate Afghan interpreters from the country, an Afghanistan war veteran and member of the coalition told Fox News.
U.S. airmen helped a pregnant Afghan mother deliver her baby in the cargo bay of a U.S. Air Force C-17 during an evacuation flight from the Middle East on Saturday, U.S. officials said.
The rapid amass of power by the Taliban in Afghanistan, as a result of the botched withdrawal of U.S.-led NATO troops is sparking concerns by experts over the possible proliferation of terrorism in the region that will pose a direct threat to America and its ally Israel.
Israel's military bombed Palestinian militant weapons sites in the Gaza Strip early Sunday in response to a violent demonstration on the perimeter fence that left an Israeli police officer critically injured, the army said.
