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Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Twelve of the 13 U.S. service members killed in Thursday’s Kabul airport bombing were 9/11 babies, according to local media reports. The Pentagon released their names and biographies on Saturday. They were born within a few years of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, which …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden said Thursday the United States will avenge militarily the bombing attacks earlier in the day in the Afghan capital of Kabul that have killed at least 103 people, adding the ongoing evacuation in Afghanistan will continue uninterrupted. The number of U.S. service …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Wednesday that the United States would work to ensure Americans and Afghan partners could leave Afghanistan beyond Aug. 31, the planned deadline for the ongoing evacuation led by the U.S. military. President Joe Biden confirmed on Tuesday that …

Kabul, Afghanistan | Xinhua | The United States should withdraw all troops and contractors before Aug. 31 deadline from Afghanistan and no extension for the ongoing evacuation process would be possible, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said on Tuesday. “There will be no extension for the ongoing evacuation,” Mujahid told reporters at a …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said on Monday that the United States is engaging with the Taliban on a daily basis as the ongoing Afghan evacuation faces the Aug. 31 deadline. President Joe Biden on Monday left open the possibility of extending the ongoing evacuation …

  Up to 100,000 people are trafficked into the United States for forced labor annually Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | For a long time, the United States has proclaimed itself as a “beacon of human rights.” The facts, however, show that America not only acts too slowly to protect human rights, …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden said on Tuesday that the Afghan troops must fight for themselves as multiple cities have fallen to the Taliban in the past few days. “We spent over a trillion dollars over 20 years. We trained and equipped with modern equipment over 300,000 …

Biden administration has moved slow to reverse its predecessor’s attack on international dispute settlement Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration, which has lectured China about respecting a so-called arbitral tribunal ruling on the South China Sea, is in itself a breacher of the international rule of law, …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The United States is heading “in the wrong direction” as the country scrambles to fight a new surge of COVID-19 cases because of the Delta variant and a large number of unvaccinated people, Anthony Fauci, White House chief medical advisor, has warned. “We are going in …

About 18,000 Afghans who worked for the US are awaiting visas. Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | The United States will launch “Operation Allies Refuge” in late July to evacuate Afghans who helped the U.S. military during the two-decade war, the White House said on Wednesday. “Flights out of Afghanistan for SIV …