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A young and beloved Burmese rock star recently died in the jungle. He was hiding out there, where many young people from Myanmar are training with a popular resistance force. It aims to challenge Myanmar's military, which seized power in a coup early this year. Raymond, the singer, had taken part in pro-democracy protests early on. Naomi Gingold has our report.

On Monday, Mohammad Azim Nekzad was afraid for his life, holed up in a room in Kabul, Afghanistan. Nekzad worked for six years with US Army Special forces removing land mines. He later became a radio DJ with the US, engaged in propaganda and psychological warfare targeting the Taliban. On Wednesday, he decided to make a break for the airport. He made it inside and is being flown to safety.

As the US scrambles to secure the Kabul airport in the waning days before its final exit from Afghanistan, the US' European partners are following events closely. Twenty years ago, the US entered Afghanistan with a broad coalition of forces, including Germany and other NATO allies. Now, the Biden administration says that it's working closely with its allies during this transition period for Afghan...

By now, the name Alexander Vindman might sound familiar. Vindman was one of the key witnesses who testified before Congress during the Trump-Ukraine impeachment inquiry in 2019. At the time, Vindman was on the staff of the National Security Council, serving as a key adviser on Russian and Ukraine. The chain of events that led to his testimony started with the now-infamous phone call between Presid...

As the Taliban strengthen their grip over Afghanistan, questions remain over how the country will be governed in this new order. One senior official with the Taliban said governance could occur through a "ruling council." The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Kamran Bokhari, director of analytical development for the Newlines Institute for Strategy and Policy in Washington, DC, to understand mo...

President Joe Biden addressed the American public on Friday for the second time this week to defend his administration's handling of the US pullout from Afghanistan. Biden said the American military is working to speed up the evacuation of US citizens, permanent residents, and Afghans who are potential targets for the Taliban. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

Khalida Popal says she founded the Afghan women's football team in 2007 as an act of defiance, to show the Taliban — and the world — that Afghan women can win. Now in exile, she is fielding calls from her former teammates who fear for their lives. Marco Werman tells her story, which she shared this week with the CBC.  

Seven members of a Kurdish family in the town of Konya were killed over a dispute about livestock grazing in their neighbor's field. Kurdish activists claim it was ethnically motivated. Durrie Bouscaren reports that it comes after a string of incidents against Kurdish people this summer.

During their offensive last week, the Taliban seized US military biometric instruments. The devices, known as HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment, contain sensitive data like iris scans and fingerprints and were billed as tools to track terrorists. But in the hands of the Taliban, they could now be used to identify Afghans who worked with the coalition forces over the past...

Many immigrants from Afghanistan and Afghan Americans here in the US have been trying to reach family members and help them. Others have been vocal on social media and have even organized rallies. Aisha Wahab has done all of that and more. Wahab is the first Afghan American woman elected to public office here in the US, she serves as the mayor pro tempore in Hayward, California. Host Marco Werman...

A young IT security researcher found a flaw in an app put out by the German ruling party. Birth dates and addresses of nearly 20,000 party members could be accessed. She reported the flaw, but as Jennie Russell reports from Berlin, the researcher is now being investigated by police - for hacking.

Olympic athletes may have left the Tokyo Games, but the athletes’ village in Tokyo is back in use. It’s currently filling up with 4,000 Paralympians. The Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games start on Tuesday for another two weeks of athletic achievement —  and COVID-19 management. The World's Bianca Hillier shares the details with Marco Werman.

We’ve all seen the pictures of Pope Francis walking through crowds, when people try to shake his hand, give him a teddy bear or snap a selfie. But this week, the pope got a more unique gift: a foosball table. Host Marco Werman has the details.

At the next big UN climate conference in Glasgow, Scotland, this November, a main focus for negotiators from Africa will be finance: pushing richer nations to live up to a pledge to help developing countries adapt to the impacts of climate change and finance a transition to renewable energy. Reporter Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman reports from Ghana on the impacts already being felt by farmers in the nor...

Taliban spokesmen have said they'll be more accommodating toward journalists than they were in their previous stint in power. Ayesha Tanzeem, the Afghanistan Pakistan bureau chief for Voice of America, is still reporting from Kabul. Tanzeem tells The World’s Marco Werman journalists are wary.

Host Marco Werman spins some punk rock marimba from the Mexico City band Son Rompe Pera, which is making its US debut in the woods of western Massachusetts on Aug. 21.

Pakistan welcomes Chinese investment for roads, bridges, dams and hydropower. But extremist groups, including the Pakistani Taliban, want China to leave. And as Betsy Joles reports from Islamabad, Pakistan, such groups have been linked to a series of attacks on Chinese workers.

Not very long ago, large parts of northern Iraq were under the control of ISIS. That is no longer the case. But this week, Iraqi security forces say they arrested several suspected members of the group. Authorities are also wary in the north of Iraq, in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region. The Kurds have been frontline fighters against ISIS, but some of them have also joined ISIS. As Rebecca Collar...

President Joe Biden is under pressure from the business community to eliminate Trump-era tariffs on Chinese goods. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports on why Biden has been reluctant to do so.

In the aftermath of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, the ripple effects are reverberating across its borders. Some Afghan people are looking to the north, to Central Asia, as a potential safe haven from the Taliban. However, it's unclear how receptive countries like Uzbekistan and Tajikistan will be in the long term. Meanwhile, Russia is keeping a close eye on its southern border with Central...

In the days after Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake that killed more than 2,000 people, the country was also hit by a tropical storm. People in damaged cities struggled to stay safe.  On The World, host Marco Werman reconnects with Nephtaly Pierre Louis, who lives with his family in the southern part of the country, which was hit the hardest. They discuss the aftermath of the storm, and h...

The Taliban fighters who walked into Kabul’s presidential palace last weekend weren’t a ragtag militia. They’re backed by huge profits from opium production, drug trafficking, illegal mining and foreign donors. But do they have enough financial backing to govern? Brookings Institution scholar Vanda Felbab-Brown speaks with The World’s host Marco Werman about the Taliban’s balance sheet.

Since the US entered Afghanistan, it has hired thousands of Afghan interpreters. The Taliban has called them traitors who must be punished — and many have been. Since 2014, at least 300 Afghan interpreters, or their relatives, have been killed. Now, as many of these Afghans fear being left behind, The World’s Monica Campbell shares some of their stories.

In New Zealand, kiwi birds are flourishing and moving into previously deserted areas, according to a new survey released by conservation group Kiwi Coast. Every five years, the group places acoustic monitoring devices in the wild to see if they record any kiwi calls. This year, they detected kiwi in 50% of the sites that were silent in 2016. The World's Marco Werman has the details.

The final Khmer Rouge Tribunal began hearings on Monday. A former leader is now seeking to overturn his genocide conviction. It will be the last chapter in the quest for justice for the more than a million people who died during the brutal regime in the late 1970s. Ashley Westerman reports on how Cambodians today look back on the era, and the need for closure.