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Editors’ note: Hollie McKay's latest special report for Deadline finds the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author negotiating the sometimes contradictory new realities for female journalists in Afghanistan since the Taliban’s return to power…

Editor’s Note: Hollie McKay's latest special report for Deadline finds the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author writing from Kabul about the disinformation campaigns across the Taliban-ruled South Asian nation. A month into the Taliban…

Editor’s note: In Hollie McKay’s latest special report for Deadline, the veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author writes from Kabul about the silencing of Afghanistan’s music and musicians as the Taliban consolidates its return to power amidst the…

Editors Note: Over the horrendous last couple of weeks as America began its final withdrawal from Afghanistan and Taliban zealots took control again after two decades, veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay has been back in the…

"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," President Joe Biden said Tuesday from the White House, throwing new urgency and specter into the American withdrawal from now Taliban-ruled <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/afghanistan/" id="auto-tag_afghanistan_4"…

Editor’s note: Seasoned foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay recently returned to Afghanistan to cover the planned U.S. troop withdrawal. In the past week, McKay has watched as a nation long cited as where empires come to die struggle…

In a mini-publicity blitz amid dramatic news coverage and skeptical questions about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden's White House turned to ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for his first exclusive media interview on the topic. The network just released a teaser clip (watch it below). It…

CNN's chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward has been on the ground in Afghanistan as the country fell — from an abandoned U.S. military outpost in Ghazni province, to a teetering position in Kandahar with Afghan troops under constant sniper, to today’s dramatic ion the streets of Kabul. Chaos ruled at the…

The publisher of the Washington Post Fred Ryan has emailed President Joe Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan urging the U.S. to evacuate over 200 U.S, journalists, support staff and their families from Afghanistan. The Post wrote on behalf of itself, The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal…

President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Thanksgiving to address the troops at Bagram Air Field, his first visit to the war-torn country. The President also made news on another front, saying that peace talks with the Taliban have been re-ignited. “I just want to say that we thank god for your…

Stephen Colbert fought to find the right words to describe his utter shock over President Trump’s planned — and scuttled — meeting with the Taliban. Trump revealed Saturday on Twitter that he suspended secret weekend peace negotiations at Camp David with the president of Afghanistan and Taliban leaders after the…