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About a year ago, U.S. troops withdrew from Afghanistan, bringing America’s longest war to a chaotic end. The ...

TRANSCRIPT The Inside Story: The Flight of the Translators Episode 55 – September 1, 2022 KANE FARABAUGH, VOA Midwest Correspondent: Amid the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, tens of thousands of Afghans who worked alongside the military made desperate attempts to flee. “James” Former...

Despite promises by the Biden administration, relatives and colleagues of an aid worker killed in a U.S. drone strike remain stuck in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon acknowledged that its killing of 10 civilians — seven of them children — had been a mistake, a result of faulty intelligence that targeted Zemari Ahmadi as a terrorist rather than a longtime aid worker. None of the strike’s planners have been held accountable.

Despite promises by the Biden administration, relatives and colleagues of an aid worker killed in a U.S. drone strike remain stuck in Afghanistan.

They all feel betrayed. How can you not feel betrayed? To leave that country the way we did? That wasnt a withdrawal. It was a retreat.

 A lot can happen in the span of a year. This is certainly the case with Afghanistan. One year after President Joe Biden's incompetent and disastrous pullout from that beleaguered

They could not have forecast how incredibly incompetent and inept the Biden Team would prove to be.

Hundreds of Afghans have resettled in Connecticut in the year since the Taliban’s takeover of the country following the U.S. withdrawal of troops. New legislation seeks to make them more at home.

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the Afghan government’s collapse on Aug. 15, 2021, as the Taliban and their supporters celebrate their takeover, millions of Afghans both inside the country and abroad are shocked and dismayed as they reflect upon what happened that fateful day. Afghans would have been happier with a political settlement and orderly transfer of power