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Current and former US officials say there is concern those weapons could be used to kill civilians.

Fifteen soldiers were killed and a number of others wounded in an ambush on a military convoy in central Mali on Thursday, the armed forces said.

The chief medical examiner in North Carolina says a man visiting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park last year was likely killed by a bear, the National Park Service said Thursday.

Loud explosions shook the Syrian capital late on Thursday as state media reported Israeli airstrikes around Damascus.

The project director of a new solar telescope in Hawaii that will be the most powerful of its kind hopes scientists will be able to start observations at the facility in three months.

A Michigan man will go to trial on terrorism charges after allegedly threatening the life of a legislator and falsely reporting a bomb in the state Capitol.

The US president who defended the chaotic exit of the final US troops, foreigners and Afghan allies after the Taliban victory, said he was "not counting" on the Taliban to shift their priorities.

A MiG29 military jet crashed in southern Russia during a routine flight and the pilot was killed, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Wednesday.

Extensive publicity over last year's fatal shooting of Andre Hill by a Columbus police officer won't prevent the nowfired officer from receiving a fair trial in central Ohio, a judge ruled Wednesday in denying a request to move the trial.

U.S. troops do not currently have the capability to help people reach Kabul airport to be evacuated from Afghanistan because they are focused on securing the airfield, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said on Wednesday.

A newspaper editor friend of former President Donald Trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner was hit Wednesday with state cyberstalking charges in New York, seven months after Trump pardoned him in a similar federal case just before leaving office.

A senior Taliban leader has said that the role of women in Afghanistan, including their right to work and education and how they should dress, would ultimately be decided by a council of Islamic scholars.

The Afghanistan embassy has demanded Ghani to hand over the treasury to an international tribunal to restore the people's wealth.

When the news of the Taliban sweeping into the Afghan capital trickled in, Muffaker was thousands of miles away from his native place, in Kerala.

The Taliban have seized US military biometrics devices that could aid in the identification of Afghans who assisted coalition forces.

California's attorney general said Tuesday that his office will conduct its own review of a transit officer's involvement in the shooting death of a 22yearold Black man at a San Francisco Bay Area train station in 2009.