Final US troops depart Afghanistan as America's longest war ends after 20 years

Editor’s note: In another special report for Deadline, veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay is back in Kabul to cover the nation’s return to Taliban rule, almost 20 years after American forces ejected the fundamentalist group from power. One in a series of Deadline stories tied to the 20th anniversary of 9/11.

military veteran who served in Afghanistan had taken their own life in recent days because of their feelings over what had happened there. During a round of broadcast interviews this morning Armed Forces Minister James Heappey told Sky News he was aware of at least one former soldier who had taken their life "in the last week or so" in the wake of the takeover by the Taliban.

The grueling nearly two-decade long U.S. intervention in Afghanistan officially ended yesterday, but Joe Biden today was still trying to justify how it came to a chaotic conclusion.

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

The last U.S. military flight left Kabul’s international airport, marking an end to nearly 20 years of occupation in Afghanistan.

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“So America is no longer the world’s policeman, we’re the world’s student loan officer,” said Bill Maher tonight of Joe Biden’s pledge to “hunt you down and make you pay” the perpetrators of yesterday’s horrific attack outside Kabul Airport.

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people flee the Taliban after closing the main processing site, near where the bombs were detonated on Thursday.

Afghanistan this afternoon, the Pentagon has announced.The Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby took to Twitter to announce the news and said there was an "unknown number of casualties".It comes after the UK armed forces minister James Heappey said there was "very credible reporting" that an affiliate of the so-called Islamic State in Afghanistan, Isis-K, could carry out an attack in "hours" as people attempt to flee the Taliban-run country.

“Every day we’re on the ground is another day that we know ISIS-K seeking to target the airport and attack both U.S. and Allied Forces and innocent civilians,” said President Joe Biden today from the White House, throwing a new urgency and specter into the American withdrawal from now Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

The presidents of five unions representing journalists are calling on President Joe Biden to support news crews and their families who are trying to flee Afghanistan.

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