A planeload of Afghan citizens landed in Kosovo on August 29 after fleeing their country following the takeover by the Taliban.
The United States have carried out a strike on militants in Kabul, U.S. officials say.
White House national-security adviser Jake Sullivan has said that the U.S. administration expects the Taliban to continue allowing safe passage for Americans and others to leave Afghanistan after the U.S. military withdrawal is completed next week.
U.S. President Joe Biden is heading to a military base in Delaware on August 29 to honor members of the 13 U.S. troops recently killed in a suicide bomb attack during the evacuation of civilians from Kabul airport.
Thousands of Afghan musicians, singers, and music teachers fear again being silenced as the country's hard-line Taliban rulers say they will not allow anything that violates Islamic Shari’a law.
The United States has carried out a drone strike in Kabul on a vehicle carrying Islamic State militants, military officials said on August 29.
The family of an Afghan folk singer and musician says he has been shot dead by a Taliban fighter in a mountain province north of Kabul.
A spokesman for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has said that the arrival of two Afghan athletes in Tokyo following their evacuation from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan sends out "a very strong message of hope."
The United States is winding down its airlift of thousands of Afghans and foreign nationals as top U.S. officials pledge to continue working to evacuate all citizens who want to leave despite the danger of the mission.
German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas embarks on a four-day trip on August 29 to Central Asia and the Middle East, with the situation in Afghanistan and further evacuations of at-risk Afghans on the agenda.
Afghanistan's two Paralympic athletes have arrived in the athletes' village in Tokyo and will compete next week in their events, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) said on August 28.
Afghans took to the street in the capital on August 28 to protest banks that have largely been shuttered in Kabul since the Taliban takeover. (Reuters)
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