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The Hunt: Desperate attempts to escape Afghanistan

For weeks, harrowing stories about Afghans’ desperate scrambles to get out of Afghanistan have emerged.

On this week’s episode of “The Hunt, with WTOP National Security Correspondent J.J. Green,” retired Marine Thomas Praxedes tells a dramatic story about his efforts to help an Afghan interpreter.


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Iran nuclear talks to restart as US emphasizes it’s ‘prepared to use other options’

The US and its allies restart Iran nuclear talks on Monday unsure how Tehran's new government will approach negotiations, not optimistic about the prospects ahead and emphasizing that if diplomacy fails, the US is "prepared to use other options." The parties to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action will reconvene in Vienna after almost six months to discuss a mutual return to the deal by both the US and Iran, but the hiatus has given time for new obstacles to take root.
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