World The First International Flight Since The U.S. Evacuated Leaves Kabul About 200 people, including some Americans, departed the Afghan capital on Thursday. Officials said this was not an evacuation flight, but rather that people were leaving of their own free will. Jackie Northam Joe Hernandez
Sports Afghan Women Will Be Banned From Playing Sports, A Taliban Official Says "Islam and the Islamic Emirate do not allow women to play cricket or play the kind of sports where they get exposed," a senior Taliban official said. Bill Chappell
World Planes Chartered To Evacuate Americans And Others From Afghanistan Remain Grounded Travelers have spent seven days waiting to depart from the northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. At least 19 U.S. citizens and two green card holders are said to be among the group of about 600. Jackie Northam Chris Benderev
National An Afghan Marine Fought To Make His Homeland Safer. Now He Feels Like He Failed Ajmal Achekzai remembers the war in Afghanistan, which brought him back to his birthplace of Kabul. Now that the war is over, he says, "I feel like I failed the Afghan people." Eleanor Vassili Emma Bowman
World The Afghan Resistance Says Reports Of Its Defeat In Panjshir Are Taliban Propaganda Ali Nazary, a spokesman for the National Resistance Front of Afghanistan, denies that the last holdout against the Taliban has fallen, calling such reports part of the "Taliban propaganda machine." Scott Neuman
National The U.S. Air Base At The Heart Of America's Biggest Airlift Here's what it's like at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, where many of the tens of thousands of Afghans evacuated from Kabul over the past few weeks are awaiting travel to the United States. Rob Schmitz
Politics A Pair Of Bipartisan Senators Demand That Biden Protect Afghan Journalists Democrat Amy Klobuchar and Republican Mitt Romney issued a new call for Biden officials to protect Afghan journalists. Last month, the pair requested safe evacuation for those who wanted to leave. Claudia Grisales
National Several California Public School Students Are Still Trapped In Afghanistan The San Juan Unified School District in Sacramento, Calif., says officials believe some of the district's students have been able to leave since the U.S. evacuation ended Tuesday. Deepa Shivaram
World With The Americans Gone, Afghanistan Enters Its Uncertain, Taliban-Led Future Some Afghans welcome their new Taliban rulers, while many others remember the excesses of the harsh ideology they enforced when they last seized power in the 1990s. Scott Neuman
Photos: In Seattle, a rally to stand in solidarity with Afghans About 100 people attended a rally and march to stand in solidarity with Afghans on Saturday at Westlake Park in Seattle. Megan Farmer
