Some Afghan girls manage to keep learning, but few see a bright future

Taliban tells CBS News its ban on older girls' education is "temporary," but even girls who've managed to quietly keep learning have little hope.

• Aug 18, 2022

Kabul mosque bombing kills at least 21, including prominent cleric

At least 33 others were wounded, police said. An eyewitness said the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber.

• Aug 18, 2022

"Children die here every day": The Taliban's Afghanistan is starving

The world is denying the extremist group access to Afghan state funds over its brutal crackdown on rights, but the Taliban isn't suffering, Afghans are.

• Aug 17, 2022

Family, colleagues of aid worker killed by U.S. strike stranded in Afghanistan

The Pentagon promised to resettle members of Zemari Ahmadi family and employees of the aid organization where he worked.

• Aug 16, 2022

Afghan women jailed, tortured and forced to hide, but not silenced

CBS News meets a women's rights activist who says she's determined to "show the world what the Taliban are really like."

• Aug 16, 2022

Taliban marks "Victory Day" a year after Afghan takeover

While many Afghans have little to celebrate, the country's Taliban rulers were happy to show off their control of Kabul's streets.

• Aug 15, 2022
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Afghans stare down a bleak future as Taliban marks one year in power

Women's freedoms have been erased, the economy is in a freefall, and a father tells CBS News that all he remembers on this anniversary is losing two sons.

• Aug 15, 2022

Afghan families start U.S. resettlement process at repurposed conference center

The National Conference Center in northern Virginia is currently housing 657 Afghan evacuees selected for U.S. resettlement, including 216 children, according to DHS data.

• Aug 11, 2022

6,500 Afghan evacuees stuck in limbo awaiting U.S. resettlement

Afghans hoping to come to the U.S. have spent months or close to a year in the United Arab Emirates. But U.S. officials say that not everyone will qualify.

• Aug 9, 2022

How one Afghan family escaped the Taliban

When Afghanistan fell to the Taliban last year, Afghans who had helped the U.S. during the war were targeted for retaliation. Elliot Ackerman, author of "The Fifth Act," became part of a digital network of veterans working to get Afghans out.

• Aug 7, 2022

Taliban members say they didn't know slain al Qaeda leader was in Kabul

The U.S. killing of al-Qaeda's leader has sparked further infighting among factions of the Taliban over how he'd been allowed to reside in Afghanistan's capital.

• Aug 4, 2022

Al-Zawahiri's death raises questions on Taliban's involvement

President Biden's national security adviser Jake Sullivan says the White House is communicating with the Taliban about their knowledge of al-Zawahiri's location.

• Aug 2, 2022

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri killed in drone strike, Biden says

"Now, justice has been delivered," President Biden said Monday night. "And this terrorist leader is no more."

• Aug 2, 2022

New report on Afghanistan reconstruction shows bleak outlook for women

A quarterly report released by the special inspector general for Afghanistan finds women's rights there have deteriorated to 1990s levels.

• Aug 2, 2022

After 20 years in Guantanamo, man wants his art, and "another life"

U.S. officials have accepted for a while that Khalid Ahmed Qasim is no well-trained terror operative. He's finally set for release, but his future remains uncertain.

• Jul 28, 2022

Taliban crackdown on rights is "suffocating" Afghan women, group says

The Taliban has reportedly banned girls from attending school from seventh grade, imposed strict dress codes and restricted women's access to work.

• Jul 27, 2022

Afghan official evacuated by U.S. says he and family now "like prisoners"

Some Afghans who helped the U.S. say they've been trapped for months at an isolated U.S. military base with no end in sight.

• Jun 29, 2022

Deadly aftershock hits Afghanistan 2 days after devastating quake

Authorities said the death toll from the major temblor -- the nation's deadliest in two decades -- reached 1,150 -- the poverty-gripped nation's deadliest temblor in two decades.

• Jun 24, 2022

Grim recovery work after Afghan quake hits nation "already on the brink"

The earthquake killed more than 1,000 people and left many homeless in one of the poorest parts of one of the poorest countries on the planet.

• Jun 23, 2022

Powerful earthquake kills more than 1,000 people in Afghanistan

Almost 1,000 people reportedly killed in Afghanistan's earthquake-prone eastern mountains as temblor strikes in the middle of the night, with people asleep in their homes.

• Jun 22, 2022

"Rescue us," beg Afghan refugees stuck in "slum life" in a Pakistan park

CBS News meets a family dodging heat, downpours and the Taliban in a makeshift shelter in Islamabad, and blaming the "poorly executed American withdrawal" from Afghanistan.

• Jun 21, 2022

Over 90% of Afghans seeking to enter U.S. on humanitarian grounds rejected

The U.S. last year resettled tens of thousands of Afghans following the Taliban takeover. But it left behind many at-risk Afghans, including family members of U.S. military translators.

• Jun 20, 2022

Crew of aircraft found to have human remains in wheel well cleared

The Air Force found the crew acted appropriately faced with the challenge of hundreds of Afghans breaching the runway.

• Jun 13, 2022

Taliban launch campaign to eradicate poppy crop in Afghanistan

The ban will likely strike a heavy blow to millions of impoverished farmers and day laborers who rely on proceeds from the crop to survive, and it comes as Afghanistan's economy has collapsed.

• Jun 2, 2022

Senators announce bipartisan deal to help veterans exposed to burn pits

The agreement paves the way for passage of a bill that has become the top priority of veterans' groups.

• May 18, 2022

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