“Maybe they (the Taliban) did not achieve all that they demanded, but they achieved a lot in

“Maybe they (the Taliban) did not achieve all that they demanded, but they achieved a lot in terms of political credibility. The fact that the Koreans negotiated with them directly and more or less in their territory ... is in itself an achievement.”

Mustafa Alani

Director of security and terrorism studies at the Dubai-based Gulf Research Center, on the Taliban’s agreement to release South Korean hostages.

“We have been destroyed, we have nothing left. Who will help us now?”

Katerina Andonopoulou, 76

After wildfires in Greece wrecked her house in the village of Platano.