Beagle Base News Today

Stars and Stripes reporters and photographers filed news stories from Albania and Macedonia over six weeks in 1999 as the NATO air campaign intensified and refugees flowed out of Kosovo.

The Stitching Hearts Quilts of Valor, Abercrombie, North Dakota, awarded three Quilts of Valor Wednesday, Dec. 13. The honorees, recognized in Hankinson, North Dakota, had service ranging from 1963-2000.

Former Zero Unit members are facing a reversal of fortune that is humiliating, infuriating, and utterly intractable.

Eagle Base, Bosnia and Herzegovina, October 2000: Sgt. Doug Ashburn, front, attached to 49th Armored Division of the Texas National Guard, reads while waiting for a flight home after a six- month deployment in Bosnia.

The story of 8-year-old Asma, injured by a U.S. tear-gas canister, echoes the heartbreak and heroism of the 20-year American misadventure in Afghanistan.

Ali Azimi, who was in Kabul during the Taliban takeover, says he is 'very sad' for the future

The agency prioritized the evacuation of Zero units and their families even as many vulnerable U.S. employees and human rights activists were left behind.

Unfortunately my priority is now. >> reporter: hours later, she changed her mind after a friend who was evacuated convinced her. >> i grabbed my passport, and i head downstairs. >> reporter: a driver in a toyota corolla picked her up. they didnt know exactly where to go. just tell me where you are, and i will help, the american texted. she shared her location as they drove through the dark and taliban checkpoints. >> taliban members came and smacked the front of the car. you know, kind of waved ...

>> i grabbed my passport and head downstairs. >> reporter: a drive in toyota corolla picked her up but didnt know exactly where to go. tell me where you are, the american texted, she shared her location as they drove through the dark and taliban check points. >> the taliban came and smashed the front of the car, and waved, and said dont move, stop right here, and our driver said im not going to listen to him. >> reporter: the american official was tracking them. i see you, just follow the road u...

Was not an option. >> reporter: they went the wrong way. the american texted, you missed the left turn. around midnight, they finally arrived at eagle base, a cia base just east of kabul located by "the new york times" where helicopters were ferrying people inside to the airport. she was met by afghan special forces and then americans, including the american guiding her. >> i had mentioned his name and i said is that you? he said yes thats me. and then, there was a sigh of relief at that point t...