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WASHINGTON: Zalmay Khalilzad, the veteran US envoy whose months of hotel-ballroom diplomacy helped end the US war in Afghanistan but failed at preventing a Taliban takeover, resigned on Monday. In a letter to Secretary of State Antony…

WASHINGTON: First Lady Jill Biden is set to campaign on Friday for Democrats in governors' races in Virginia and New Jersey, trying to boost the party's political fortunes in her most overt way since arriving at the White House nine…

WASHINGTON: The US Capitol rioter nicknamed the "QAnon Shaman" is disappointed former President Donald Trump did not pardon him, his defense lawyer said on Friday after the man pleaded guilty to taking part in the January 6 unrest. Jacob…

WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden assured Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday that the United States opposes "Russian aggression" but he showed no sign of moving on requests to open NATO to the eastern European country. "The…

WASHINGTON: Army General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on Wednesday that it's "possible" that the US will have to coordinate with the Taliban on any future counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan against…

VIENNA/SEOUL: North Korea appears to have restarted a nuclear reactor that is widely believed to have produced plutonium for nuclear weapons, the UN atomic watchdog said in an annual report, highlighting the isolated nation's efforts to…

WASHINGTON: On alert for more terrorist attacks, the US military has begun its final withdrawal from Afghanistan in the closing stages of a frantic airlift of Americans, Afghans and others desperate to escape Taliban rule before the…

WASHINGTON: Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is aiming to dissuade President Joe Biden from returning to the Iran nuclear deal when the two leaders meet at the White House on Friday. The meeting, originally scheduled for Thursday,…

WASHINGTON: Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to five months in prison Monday for setting a Black Lives Matter banner on fire in Washington as part of protests backing president Donald Trump. A key figure in the extreme…

WASHINGTON: Former President Donald Trump launched on Saturday a sustained attack on President Joe Biden's handling of the retreat of US forces from Afghanistan, which he called "the greatest foreign policy humiliation" in U.S. history.…