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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the military organization was a victim of mission creep in Afghanistan as the international community went from fighting extremists to trying to rebuild the conflict-torn country.

A top aid official says thousands of Afghan refugees are fleeing the Taliban into neighboring Iran every day and the trend could eventually become a crisis for Europe.

Sudan’s military has long been the country’s pre-eminent power broker, propping up dictator Omar al-Bashir for three decades before ousting him in 2019 following months of protests against runaway inflation and brutality. Now the army has toppled an uneasy coalition of civilian and military figures that ran the North African nation after the popular uprising, detaining premier Abdalla Hamdok and four of his cabinet members. The coup sparked unrest and a deadly crackdown by security forces, put h

Sudan’s military has long been the country’s pre-eminent power broker, propping up dictator Omar al-Bashir for three decades before ousting him in 2019 following months of protests against runaway inflation and brutality. Now the army has toppled an uneasy coalition of civilian and military figures that ran the North African nation after the popular uprising, detaining premier Abdalla Hamdok and four of his cabinet members. The coup sparked unrest and a deadly crackdown by security forces, put h

A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay detainee says the Supreme Court should wait to decide a case involving his client until it’s clear what the Biden administration will let the man say about his torture abroad by the CIA.

The Biden administration has suspended $700 million in financial assistance to Sudan following a coup in the African nation that U.S. officials have roundly condemned.

U.N. agencies say Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have agreed to a nationwide polio vaccination campaign for the first time in three years.

A child of working-class Jamaican immigrants in the Bronx, Colin Powell rose from neighborhood store clerk to warehouse floor-mopper to the highest echelons of the U.S. government.

The Biden administration says it will allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to provide information to Polish officials about his torture in CIA custody following the 9/11 attacks.

Qatar’s diplomatic point man for talks with the Taliban says countries should engage Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers, warning that isolation could lead to a wide-reaching security threat, as happened when al-Qaida used the country as a base to plot the 9/11 attacks.

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of requiring the U.S. government to divulge what it says is secret information being sought by a Guantanamo Bay detainee.

Five intelligence officers were killed in a shootout Tuesday with suspected Islamic State group militants in Sudan's capital Khartoum, authorities said. The General Intelligence Agency said in a statement the suspected militants opened fire on forces who raided their hideout in the Gabra neighborhood in southern Khartoum. The GIA said forces arrested 11 suspected militants and were chasing four others who managed to flee during the shootout.

The dispute between Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers and its former government over who should speak at the U.N.’s annual meeting of world leaders is over.

The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul has deepened the mutual distrust between the U.S. and Pakistan, two putative allies who have tangled over Afghanistan.

Pakistan's top diplomat has some ideas from his country on how to engage the new Taliban government in Afghanistan.

The new rulers of Afghanistan have an uphill battle in their efforts to be recognized in time to address other world leaders at the United Nations this year.

The United Nations says the Taliban, Afghanistan’s new rulers since last month, have challenged the credentials of Afghanistan’s former U.N. ambassador and are asking to speak at the U.N. General Assembly’s high-level meeting of world leaders that began Tuesday.

The debate over the remains of the ruthless Maoist leader is forcing the country to again confront the most brutal period in its past.

Morell discusses 9/11, the missteps that may have led to the attacks and reveals the CIA's frustration with White House inaction.

The youngest son of Osama bin Laden said he is ashamed and horrified by his father's actions on Sept. 11, 2001.

John Dickerson sits down with Fox News anchor Chris Wallace, author of "Countdown bin Laden," to discuss the raid on the al Qaeda leader's compound, and President Obama's decision to go forward with the Navy SEAL operation that had a high possibility of failure.

Not long after 9/11, the Bush administration shifted its attention to Iraq, saying it was part of an “axis of evil” that pursued anti-American policies.

Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. In their aftermath, the U.S. invaded Afghanistan, swiftly deposing the Taliban regime that had been sheltering Osama bin Laden, the leader of the al-Qaida terror network blamed for the attacks.

A declassified FBI document related to logistical support given to two of the Saudi hijackers in the run-up to the Sept. 11 attacks details contacts the men had with Saudi associates in the United States but doesn't provide proof that senior kingdom officials were complicit in the plot.

Retired Four-Star General, and former head of special operations, Raymond "Tony" Thomas, has served in Afghanistan almost every year since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

The family might have thrived indefinitely after Osama’s death but for the ambitions of Mohammed bin Salman.

U.S. influence has been systematically dismantled across much of the Muslim world, a process abetted by Washington’s own mistakes.

President Joe Biden has paid tribute at three hallowed places of grief and remembrance to honor the lives lost two decades ago in the 9/11 terror attacks.

Afghanistan's first 2001 post-Taliban president Hamid Karzai marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America with a meeting of tribal elders at his high-walled compound in the Afghan capital.

Chris Wallace tells Stephen Colbert 2 surprising things he learned about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says the al-Qaida extremist group that used Afghanistan as a staging base to attack United States 20 years ago may attempt to regenerate there following an American withdrawal that has left the Taliban in power.

Former CBS News President Susan Zirinsky has formed a new studio to make documentaries and other unscripted programming, primarily for CBS News and the Paramount+ streaming service.

Michael Morell, a former top intelligence official who was with President George W. Bush on September 11, shares his experience from that day and assesses today's terror threat.

Host Michael Morell talks with Gina Bennett, one of the longest-serving intelligence analysts on al Qaeda and other terrorist groups.

Former CIA directors, insiders and national security experts retrace the agency’s steps around 9/11 and detail the mission to hunt down al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in “Race Against Time: The CIA and 9/11.” The special airs Friday, September 10 at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and will be available to stream on the CBS News app and Paramount+ on September 11.

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photo GettyAfter 20 years, who won the War on Terror?In a 2004 speech sent to al-Jazeera, Osama bin Laden said that “all that we have to do is send two mujahideen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth that says al-Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note.”If bin Laden were alive today—and not a decaying, bullet-riddled corpse somewhere

After twenty years, it hardly needs saying that America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were disastrous to U.S. interests and standing.

Millions of Americans were guided through the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by one of three men on television news — Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather.

Army Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, say it’s “possible” the U.S. will coordinate with the Taliban on any future counterterrorism strikes in Afghanistan against Islamic State militants or others.

The president forcefully rejected criticism that he was abandoning Americans and their Afghan allies to the mercies of the Taliban, and he offered an emotional defense of his decision to end the 20-year war.

Presidents' reactions have consistently combined outrage with promises of revenge. The language is remarkably similar. But there has been far less consistency in the delivery of actual retaliation.

Addressing the nation, President Joe Biden is defending the way the U.S. ended its 20-year “forever war” in Afghanistan.

After two decades, the United States has completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war and closing a sad chapter in military history.

The U.S. government says it is shutting down an embattled federal jail in New York City after a slew of problems that came to light following Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide there two years ago.

"Osama bin Laden had one hit, and it was a bad one, in New York City, the World Trade Center," Trump said.

Two explosions outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, killed dozens of people on Thursday, including U.S. service members. These are the scenes of the aftermath. Warning: The following video is graphic.

A Navy SEAL veteran who was on the team that killed Osama bin Laden said it's time to "kill people" and "drop our stupid rules of engagement" after U.S. service members were killed in Kabul on Thursday.

A Taliban spokesman claimed Wednesday that there is "no evidence" that Osama bin Laden was behind the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, despite overwhelming evidence linking the late al Qaeda leader to the planning of the incident.

China is facing heightened risks, along with potential political and economic opportunities following the Taliban’s rapid rise to power.

For senior military and Pentagon leaders, this week’s news was profoundly personal.

With the Taliban in control in Afghanistan's capital and the Biden administration under fire for a chaotic withdrawal, a look at what went wrong.

It’s remarkable how quickly liberals abandoned the women of Afghanistan.

When the Taliban swept over Afghanistan, Russia was ready for the rapid developments after working methodically for years to lay the groundwork for relations with the group that it still officially considers a terrorist organization.

A brief history of four presidents and 20 years of war.

Taliban militants have attacked protesters in eastern Afghanistan who dared to take down their banner and replace it with the country’s flag.

Chaos at the main airport in the Afghan capital has killed at least seven people.

Had Osama bin Laden been killed or captured in December 2001, justice would have been served in the way Americans like: fast, hard, and cheap.

As the United States ends the nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan and as the Taliban recapture much of the country, Americans are asking if the longest war in their history was worth the cost.

Peter Bergen explores the forces that shaped the al-Qaeda leader’s views.

The drawdown of foreign forces has corresponded with battlefield advances by the Taliban.

Afghanistan's ex-rulers still back brutal punishments as they continue a deadly advance towards power.

Sweeping Taliban conquests in Afghanistan are challenging the Biden administration’s hopes that a desire for international legitimacy will moderate the Taliban's worst behavior.

As foreign forces pull out after 20 years of war, what did it achieve and what happens next?

Gen Sir Richard Barrons says it sends allies the wrong message and risks a resurgence of terrorism.

President Joe Biden used his first visit with rank-and-file members of the U.S. intelligence community to make a promise that he will “never politicize” their work.

CIA director William Burns called "Havana Syndrome," which up to 200 Americans have reported having symptoms of, "real" and "serious" during an interview.

It took only two months for U.S. invaders to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001, a seemingly tidy success against a government that had given refuge to 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. Twenty years later, the United States is withdrawing — visions of victory long vanished and an ascendant Taliban arguably within reach of restoring their rule. Afghanistan proved to be a lesson in the limits of America's military power.

Former U.S. President George W.

General Sir Nick Carter responds to a mother questioning what her soldier son died for in Afghanistan.

Islam Qala border crossing point is seized, as the group swiftly advances in parts of Afghanistan.

"The status quo was not an option," the fourth president to oversee the war said as violence flares.

American troops quietly withdrew from the key airbase in the early hours, new base commander says.

More than 1,000 soldiers retreat to Tajikistan as fighting with the militants intensifies.

As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks approaches, victims’ relatives and their lawyers are hoping they can finally prove in court what they’ve long suspected: that the Saudi government was complicit.

The former Soviet Union marched into Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, 1979, claiming it was invited by the new Afghan communist leader, Babrak Karmal, and setting the country on a path of 40 years of seemingly endless wars and conflict. After the Soviets left in humiliation, America was the next great power to wade in. Following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the U.S. invaded to oust the Taliban regime, which had harbored al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden.

As the last U.S. combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, the question arises: When is the war really over.

The former Defense secretary was known for his quotes, which were notable, shocking, sometimes confusing.

A former CIA operative known for his exploits everywhere from Miami to Nicaragua to Afghanistan has a book deal.

A small group of Afghans who worked as interpreters for the U.S. military have rallied near the American Embassy in Kabul, protesting the red tape that stands in the way of their leaving Afghanistan.

Afghanistan’s foreign minister is accusing the Taliban of carrying out its worst violence in the past two decades.

Afghanistan’s former president says the United States came to his country to fight extremism and bring stability to his war-tortured nation and is leaving nearly 20 years later having failed at both.

Afghan officials say that gunmen targeted members of polio vaccination teams in eastern Afghanistan, killing at least five staffers.

NATO leaders have declared that China poses a constant security challenge and is working to undermine global order.

President Joe Biden and his NATO counterparts are bidding a symbolic farewell to Afghanistan at their last summit before the U.S.-led organization pulls out its troops from the country for good.

The U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan is more than half done, and U.S. officials say that while it could be completed by July 4, the final exit of equipment and troops more likely will be later in the summer.

Foreign keyboard criminals with scant fear of repercussions have paralyzed U.S. schools and hospitals, leaked highly sensitive police files, triggered fuel shortages and, most recently, threatened global food supply chains.

The head of NATO says the military organization’s pullout from Afghanistan is going well after an 18-year presence in the country.

The head of NATO says the government and armed forces of Afghanistan are strong enough to stand on their own feet without international troops to back them.

NATO has helped provide security in Afghanistan for almost two decades but the government and armed forces in the conflict-torn country are strong enough to stand on their own feet without international troops to back them, the head of the military organization said Thursday. NATO took charge of security efforts in Afghanistan in 2003, two years after a U.S.-led coalition ousted the Taliban for harboring former Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. “I think that the Afghans, they also realize that we have been there now for 20 years and we have invested heavily in blood and treasure in Afghanistan,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told The Associated Press, aboard a U.K. aircraft carrier involved in wargames off the coast of Portugal.

When he pulled the plug on the U_S_ war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said that the reasons for staying, 10 years after the death of Osama bin Laden, had become “increasingly unclear.”.

When he pulled the plug on the American war in Afghanistan, President Joe Biden said the reasons for staying, 10 years after the death of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, had become "increasingly unclear.” Now that a final departure is in sight, questions about clarity have shifted to Biden's post-withdrawal plan. What would the United States do, for example, if the Taliban took advantage of the U.S. military departure by seizing power?

Washington’s special envoy to Afghanistan says predictions that the Taliban will quickly overrun Afghan government forces and conquer Kabul once U.S. and coalition forces have fully withdrawn are unduly pessimistic.

French President Emmanuel Macron has announced the cancellation of Sudan’s $5 billion debt to France in an effort to support the country’s transitional leadership and help its crippled economy recovering.

The embattled president of the University of South Carolina resigned on Wednesday, days after he delivered a commencement address marred by allegations of plagiarism and a misidentification of the school itself. In a news release, the school announced that the chairman of its board of trustees had accepted Bob Caslen's resignation, thanking him for his service. Harris Pastides, Caslen's immediate predecessor who led the system for 11 years, will serve on an interim basis during a search for a permanent replacement, officials said.

Then-vice president had advised Obama against carrying out the raid until they could be sure the al Qaeda leader was in the compound

The Supreme Court is allowing a bigger award of money to victims of the 1998 bombings by al-Qaida of the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The case the Supreme Court ruled in involves lawsuits filed by victims and their families against Sudan. A court initially awarded the group more than $10 billion, but an appeals court threw out about $4 billion of the award that was punitive damages. The Supreme Court said Monday that the appeals court was wrong and that a federal law, the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, allows punitive damages in the case. The court reinstated a portion of the $4 billion in punitive damages and sent the case back to the appeals court for additional proceedings.

The United States signed a peace agreement with Taliban militants on Saturday aimed at bringing an end to 18 years of bloodshed in Afghanistan and allowing U.S. troops to return home from America's longest war. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended the ceremony in Qatar, where the Taliban have a political office, but did not sign the agreement. Mr. Trump has approached the Taliban agreement cautiously, steering clear of the crowing surrounding other major foreign policy actions, such as his talks with North Korea. The alliance officially concluded its combat mission in 2014 and now provides training and support to Afghan forces. Seven days ago, the Taliban began a seven-day "reduction of violence" period, a prerequisite to the peace deal signing.

A sheriffs deputy fatally shot the gunman, authorities said, ending the second deadly attack at a U.S. military base within a week. Authorities confirmed the suspect was a member of the Royal Saudi Air Force who was on the base as part of a U.S. Navy training program designed to foster links with foreign allies. It said the airman first entered the United States in 2018, returned to Saudi Arabia, then re-entered the United States in February, and had reported for training at the base about three days before the attack. )FILE PHOTO: The main gate at Naval Air Station Pensacola is seen on Navy Boulevard in Pensacola, Florida, U.S. March 16, 2016. The base outside Pensacola, near Floridas border with Alabama, is a major training site for the Navy and employs about 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel, according to its website.

A sheriffs deputy fatally shot the gunman, authorities said, ending the second deadly attack at a U.S. military base within a week. Authorities confirmed the suspect was a member of the Royal Saudi Air Force who was on the base as part of a U.S. Navy training program designed to foster links with foreign allies. It said the airman first entered the United States in 2018, returned to Saudi Arabia, then re-entered the United States in February, and had reported for training at the base about three days before the attack. He also quoted bin Laden, the Saudi mastermind of the attacks on the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, according to SITE. Slideshow (2 Images)The base outside Pensacola, near Floridas border with Alabama, is a major training site for the Navy and employs about 16,000 military and 7,400 civilian personnel, according to its website.

AdvertisementFew doubt that the reported death of Baghdadi is a devastating symbolic blow to Islamic State. Even after Islamic State began to suffer defeats, the elusiveness of Baghdadi helped give the group an aura of invincibility. The organization wanted to give the impression he was overseeing everything, said Aymenn Jawad Tamimi, an analyst who studies Islamic State documents. As of Sunday, Islamic State had not acknowledged the death of Baghdadi. Instead they highlighted Islamic State attacks in Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan.