Director Maysoon Pachachi Goes Back to the Year of Uncertainty and Fear in ‘Our River… Our Sky’

PARIS -- As a filmmaker, Shahrbanoo Sadat watched with fascination as Taliban fighters took over her city and terrified crowds animated the streets.

VENICE -- Afghan female filmmakers who fled the Taliban begged the world to not forget the Afghan people and to support its artists, warning Saturday that a country without culture will eventually lose its identity.The Venice Film Festival organized a panel discussion Saturday to give a platform to Sahraa Karimi, the first female president of the Afghan Film Organization, and documentary filmmaker Sahra Mani, who is presenting a project at the Venice film market fair.Karimi choked up while

wrote in its story on the man suspended from the helicopter that it was “not immediately clear exactly how he is attached or if he is alive.”In fact, he was alive. The video was posted from a now-suspended account, but another video of the same flight shows the man waving.

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Get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterBoris Johnson has resumed his summer break which was interrupted by the fall of Kabul but Downing Street has insisted the Prime Minister is “continuing to work”.As the last British troops left Kabul on Sunday, Boris Johnson left London with his family for Somerset in the west of England .Despite being away from Downing Street No 10 officials insisted he was still at work.The Prime Minister’s Official

Washington Post, the Islamic extremist group’s presence has resulted in heightened fear of repercussions for Afghans of the Christian faith. Beck, who was in the Middle East for the proceedings, shared a photo of the last plane of refugees to depart prior to the ISIS suicide bombing of the Kabul Airport on Thursday, writing that next he would be boarding a plane to “help prepare their new home(s) far from the Taliban and ISIS.” “We will not forget those left behind.

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President Joe Biden, facing the worst day of his presidency, mourned the loss of U.S. servicemen and civilians killed in a deadly attack outside the Kabul airport, but he vowed that the Afghanistan evacuation mission would continue.

Meghan McCain’s time on “The View” may be done but that doesn’t mean her political hot takes are.

EXCLUSIVE: CNN is unveiling a slate of new limited series podcasts for this fall, including one focusing on California’s 2003 recall and another hosted by Clarissa Ward, who recently was reporting on the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are doing their bit to support the people of Afghanistan.

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorAngelina Jolie launched an Instagram account Friday, in what appeared to be the actor-producer-director’s first-ever social media presence, to call attention to the plight of people in Afghanistan following the Taliban’s rapid takeover of the country.Jolie’s viral first Instagram post included an image of a hand-written letter she said was sent from a teenage girl in Afghanistan, who expressed fear about attending school under the Taliban regime.“Right now, the

K.J. Yossman Stuart Ramsay has covered 18 separate wars and numerous natural disasters during his 30 years as a reporter but even he admits the scenes unfolding around him this week in Afghanistan have been unique.“The circumstances and the desperation and the sadness is the same in every scenario but this is slightly different,” the Sky News chief reporter tells Variety in an exclusive interview.

K.J. Yossman “Europa” director Haider Rashid was shocked when he first read about the dangers encountered by migrants on the Balkan route, a well-trod passage from Turkey to Eastern Europe undertaken by many thousands of people hoping to reach the West each year.