AFGHANISTAN

Pakistan’s foreign minister is recommending cooperation with the Taliban even though many U.S. officials say Afghanistan’s ruling faction has proved unworthy of it.

A senior U.N. official is warning of a possible internal conflict and worsening poverty in Afghanistan if the Taliban don’t respond quickly to the needs of all elements of society

A rare moderate official in the Taliban is advocating to let girls continue school past middle school after the Taliban banned girls from attending middle and high school last August.

A senior member of the Taliban-run government has called on the Taliban to reopen schools for girls in Afghanistan beyond the sixth grade, saying there is no valid reason in Islam for the ban

Because of sanctions, economically stricken Afghanistan is now a cash-only society — but that's a problem when its banknotes are falling apart.

The Central Intelligence Agency museum in Virginia will add new spy exhibits such as newly declassified artifacts from the CIA’s most storied operations.

For the second straight year, Afghanistan and Myanmar were silent at the U.N. General Assembly's leaders' meeting, which ended Monday with no representative of either government stepping forward to talk as the United Nations tries to resolve who should represent them. At the annual high-level meeting of leaders, there was no speech from Afghanistan's ruling Taliban, who now control the nation after a U.S. withdrawal last year, and no words from Myanmar, where a military junta toppled the civilian government last year and detained its de facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

The al-Zawahiri model home is the rare artifact that had been used by intelligence officers just weeks beforehand.

The CIA has revealed the scale model of the safe house where it found and killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri in Afghanistan.

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One year since the Taliban took over, life in Afghanistan’s capital is a painful reminder of all that was lost when American troops suddenly left the country last year.

GOP senator calls on FBI to be "transparent" with American public on data related to Afghan evacuees and Biden's vetting process.

While no one immediately claimed responsibility, ISIS has previously carried out similar attacks on mosques and worshippers.

The Taliban say a car bombing near a Kabul mosque killed at least seven people and wounded 41, including several children.

The NRCC will reportedly pull their support from GOP congressional candidate running in Ohio J.R. Majewski, after he allegedly claimed to have falsely served in Afghanistan.

The New York Times reported how missing San Antonio girl Lina survived a suicide bomber in Afgan before vanishing in Texas.

The Taliban say at least three people have been killed and 13 others wounded in an explosion in the Afghan capital

The Taliban have appointed a new education minister for Afghanistan, days after the United Nations called on the country’s new rulers to reopen schools for girls beyond sixth grade

Ukraine's advances prompt Russia to launch a partial military mobilisation, raising the stakes.

As international charities pulled out or faced funding issues after the Taliban takeover, Aseel, an online business that sells local crafts, wondered: Could it help ease the rising wave of hunger?

The Comal ISD board of trustees approved the names of two elementary schools and a middle school being constructed in the district.

An American contractor, Mark Frerichs, has been freed after talks between the United States and the Taliban. He was abducted in January of 2020 in Kabul

The contractor and U.S. Navy veteran was released by the Taliban in exchange for a notorious drug lord who had spent 17 years in U.S. captivity.

Mark Frerichs, a Navy veteran turned civilian contractor, was abducted in January 2020. His release centered on a prisoner exchange involving Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and Taliban member.

A senior Taliban official told reporters he was released from Guantanamo Bay. The Taliban called the exchange the start of a "new era" in U.S.-Taliban relations.

Engineer Mark Frerichs was abducted in Kabul in 2020, while Bashir Noorzai was in U.S. custody for the past 17 years.

A senior Taliban detainee held at Guantanamo Bay says he was released and handed over to the Taliban in Kabul, in exchange for an American prisoner held in Afghanistan

An American contractor held hostage in Afghanistan for more than two years by the Taliban has been released.

A senior Taliban detainee said Monday he was released from a U.S. prison and handed over earlier in the day to the Taliban in Kabul, in exchange for an American prisoner held in Afghanistan. Bashir Noorzai, a notorious drug lord and member of the Taliban, told reporters in Kabul that he spent 17 years and six months in U.S. captivity. Other Taliban officials claimed he was held at the the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but those statements could not be confirmed.

Humanitarian organizations and ordinary American citizens are working to help resettle Afghan refugees after the U.S. military's withdrawal from Kabul in 2021.

Neighbors, co-workers, faith groups and friends have banded together in "sponsor circles" to help Afghans get settled in their communities.

The United Nations is calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7 through12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”

The United Nations is calling on Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers to reopen schools to girls in grades 7 through12, calling the anniversary of their exclusion from high school “shameful.”.

Prince Harry, the Duke of Sussex, served for ten years in the British Army and completed two tours of Afghanistan at the height of the war.

A leading international rights group has released a harrowing report about six members of an extended minority Shiite family in Afghanistan who were killed by the Taliban earlier this summer

They said his earlier decision to leave the decision to a New York court has created "vicious infighting" among victims.

The Afghan Fund will distribute some of the $3.5 billion in Afghan central bank reserves that were frozen after the U.S. withdrawal and Taliban takeover last year.

A newly declassified U.S. intelligence report predicted in 2020 that the Islamic State group was likely to regain much of its former strength and global influence, particularly if American and Western forces reduced their role in countering the extremist movement.

Dems took off the gloves long ago

Republican Missouri Senator Josh Hawley is introducing legislation to establish a select committee on President Biden's deadly and botched Afghanistan withdrawal.

Afghan and Pakistani authorities are blaming each other for an overnight clash at the border that’s caused casualties on both sides

The Biden Administration has agreed to release $3.5 billion in frozen funds, but will they reach a desperate population?

The Treasury Department said an oversight body will deploy $3.5 billion of Afghanistan’s central bank reserves to help stabilize the country’s ravaged economy.

Pakistan’s police say the death toll has risen to eight from an overnight roadside bombing that targeted an anti-Taliban elder’s vehicle

A former member of Afghanistan’s parliament is urging the world to label the Taliban a “gender apartheid” regime because of its crackdown on human right

The Taliban crashed an American Black Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan, killing three people and injuring five others, the group's Ministry of Defense said.

The Taliban crashed an American Black Hawk helicopter in Afghanistan, killing three people and injuring five others, the group's Ministry of Defense said.

The following is a transcript of an interview with retired Gen. Frank McKenzie that aired Sunday, Sept. 11, 2022, on "Face the Nation."

Biden noted that even after the United States left Afghanistan that his administration continues to pursue those responsible for the 9/11 attacks.

President Joe Biden marked the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, taking part in a somber wreath-laying ceremony at the Pentagon in a somber commemoration held under a steady rain.

In the aftermath of 9/11, Afghanistan, and Iraq, we need to ask ourselves about America’s power, and how best to use it. A pair of my graduates, both involved in

The Department of Defense’s watchdog told two Republican senators that it will evaluate claims that hundreds of Afghan evacuees were allowed to enter the U.S. despite being on the department’s watchlist. “As part of our ongoing body of work on Afghan evacuees, we are initiating an evaluation, to commence in the first quarter of [fiscal…

Virat Kohli recorded his first international hundred in nearly three years as India bowed out of the Asia Cup with a massive 101-run win over Afghanistan on Thursday. Kohli, who made his last international century in November 2019 during a test match against Bangladesh, hit a blistering unbeaten 122 off just 61 balls and anchored India to 212-2. Fast bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar bowled one of best spells in Twenty20 cricket by grabbing 5-4 with his brilliant swing bowling upfront before Afghanistan reached 111-8 and gave India its second-biggest win ever in a T20 international.

Pakistan is to protest to the International Cricket Council over the fan violence that tarnished the intense last-over victory against Afghanistan at the Asia Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Pakistan qualified for the final and ended Afghanistan's chances at Sharjah on Wednesday by one wicket. Spectators at Sharjah Cricket Stadium ripped out chairs and flung them at each other, and there was TV footage of punches being thrown.

The Taliban-appointed foreign minister has acknowledged that the former insurgents’ year-old government in Afghanistan remains isolated

The Taliban-appointed foreign minister acknowledged Wednesday that the former insurgents' year-old government in Afghanistan remains isolated. The remarks by Amir Khan Muttaqi underscored the struggles faced by the Taliban since they seized power and overthrew a Western-backed government in August 2021. The international community, wary of the Taliban's harsh rule when they were last in power more than 20 years ago, has withheld official recognition and Afghanistan's assets abroad have been frozen.

Officials "did not always have critical data to properly screen, vet, or inspect the evacuees," according to an inspector general report first obtained by CBS News.

Pakistan teenager Naseem Shah smashed back-to-back sixes in the last over against Afghanistan on Wednesday for a one-wicket victory that sets up the Asia Cup final against Sri Lanka. Needing 11 off the last over and only one wicket in hand, the 19-year-old Shah clobbered consecutive sixes off fast bowler Fazalhaq Farooqi’s two low full tosses to take Pakistan to 131-9. In Super 4 game dominated by bowlers, Pakistan also did well to restrict Afghanistan to 129-6 through its pacers and spinners.

A suicide bombing outside the Russian Embassy in the Afghan capital of Kabul has killed two members of the embassy staff and at least one civilian in a rare attack on a foreign diplomatic mission in Afghanistan.

Officials say unexploded ordnance detonated in southern Afghanistan killing four children and injuring three others after the kids brought it inside their school.

Taliban officials and a local medic say an explosion tore through a crowded mosque in western Afghanistan, killing 18 people, including a prominent cleric close to the ruling Taliban.

The Biden administration is phasing out a program that aimed to give at-risk Afghans a quicker legal pathway to the U.S. through humanitarian relief but was criticized for its bureaucratic barriers.

The Army says it has grounded its fleet of Chinook cargo helicopters after fuel leaks caused a “small number” of engine fires.

The U.N. humanitarian chief is warning that Afghanistan faces deepening poverty with 6 million people at risk of famine.

President Joe Biden has called the leaders of two U.S. veterans groups assisting Afghans who have fled from the country on the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.

An Afghan Sikh family of 13 has found refuge in the diaspora community on Long Island.

One year later, Bilal Mirbat Zai, his wife and their infant daughter sit on a beautiful carpet in their Northwest Side apartment.

The Pentagon will set up a new center to help avoid civilian casualties in military operations around the world through better education and training and increased screening before strikes are launched.

More than a year after the Taliban takeover that saw thousands of people rushing to Kabul’s international airport amid the chaotic U.S. withdrawal, Afghans who failed to get on evacuation flights say they are still struggling to find safe and legal ways out of the country.

Local officials in eastern Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan say heavy flooding from seasonal rains has left dozens of people dead overnight.

A Taliban police spokesman in Afghanistan’s capital says the toll from a mosque bombing the previous evening has risen to 21 people killed with 33 others wounded in the attack.

An Afghan resident and police say that a bombing at a mosque in Kabul during evening prayers killed at least 10 people, including a prominent cleric, and wounded at least 27.

A year after America’s tumultuous and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan, assessments of its impact are divided — and largely along partisan lines.

The Taliban are marking a year since they seized the Afghan capital of Kabul.

On the eve of the anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Kabul, Afghanistan’s former president has defended what he says was a split-second decision to flee.

VFW Post 8397 held a flag retirement ceremony and honored the 13 service members killed in Kabul, Afghanistan last year.

A year after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, prominent Afghan human rights activist Sima Samar is still heartbroken over what happened to her country.

The nearly 12 months since the chaotic end to the U.S. war in Afghanistan haven’t been easy for Joe Biden.

U.S. intelligence agencies are shifting more money and resources to China.

U.S. officials have said taking out a terrorist threat in Afghanistan with no American troops on the ground would be difficult but not impossible.

The Biden administration is holding out the CIA operation that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri as a monumental strike against the global terror network responsible for the Sept. 11 attacks of 2001.

The U.S. drone strike that killed al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri is intensifying global scrutiny of Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers.

A U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan this weekend killed Ayman al-Zawahri, who helped Osama bin Laden plot the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States and helped ensure al-Qaida survived and spread in the years after.

Amnesty International says the Taliban's “suffocating” crackdown on the rights of Afghan women and girls is destroying their lives.

The House has approved a significant expansion of health care and disability benefits for millions of veterans who were exposed to toxic burn pits while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.

A BBC investigation has alleged that British special forces killed dozens of detainees in suspicious circumstances during counter-insurgency operations in Afghanistan.

Millions of Muslims across the globe — including in countries like Afghanistan, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen — were celebrating Eid al-Adha, one of the biggest holidays of the Islamic calendar.

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s war in Ukraine.

A three-day assembly of Islamic clerics and tribal elders in Kabul has concluded with pledges of support for the Taliban and calls on the international community to recognize Afghanistan's Taliban-led government.

The United Nations says that the death toll of children in last week’s devastating earthquake in southeastern Afghanistan has risen to 155 as the scope of the deadliest quake to hit the impoverished country in two decades comes into focus.

New relief supplies rolled into eastern Afghanistan after this week's powerful earthquake that state media said killed at least 1,150.

Donations for Afghanistan earthquake victims will face far more hurdles than other disasters, due to sanctions against the country’s Taliban government and its troubled relationship with Western nations, experts say.

An aftershock has taken more lives and threatened to pile even more misery on an area of eastern Afghanistan reeling from a powerful earthquake that state media said killed 1,150 people this week.

India has rushed emergency relief assistance and a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

India has sent a technical team to Kabul to coordinate the delivery of humanitarian assistance after a destructive earthquake in eastern Afghanistan.

The independent watchdog for U.S. assistance to Afghanistan is accusing the State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development of illegally withholding information about the American withdrawal from the country.

The Senate has approved a sweeping expansion of health care and disability benefits for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan in response to concerns about their exposure to toxic burn pits.

The Air Force has concluded that air crew members acted appropriately and were not at fault for some tragic deaths during the chaotic evacuation from Afghanistan last year, when desperate Afghans clung to a military plane as it was taking off and fell to their deaths or were caught in the wheels.