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The Taliban announced they have established an interim government in Afghanistan exactly one week after U.S. troops left the country. It comes as America prepares to mark 20 years since the attacks on September 11, 2001. Academy Award-winning filmmaker and podcast host Michael Moore joins CBSN's Elaine Quijano to discuss.
New video shows Taliban fighters firing into the air as protests erupt in Kabul, Afghanistan. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken arrives in Doha, Qatar for conversations with top diplomatic leaders. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata joins CBSN AM from Doha with more details.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Doha, Qatar, where many Afghans and Americans landed while fleeing the Taliban's takeover. The nation's top diplomat is joined by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin. Both men are meeting with officials in the Persian Gulf nation to thank them for helping transport thousands of evacuees from Afghanistan in recent weeks. CBS News correspondent Christina Ruffini reports for CBSN.
Blinken says the Taliban isn't holding anyone hostage, and the U.S. is working with the group to secure the evacuation of U.S. nationals still stuck in the country.
The Islamic extremist group claims full control of Afghanistan with the purported defeat of resistance fighters, but it won't say why 6 planes aren't being allowed to depart.
The Taliban has claimed victory over the last region in Afghanistan to fall under their control. Meanwhile, four Americans safely departed from Afghanistan by land amid accusations the Taliban is not letting planes with evacuees take off, a senior State Department official confirmed Monday. Charlie D'Agata reports.
Government officials in Doha, Qatar, said they've been working closely with the Taliban to reopen the airport in the Afghan capital of Kabul in the next few days. That could mean a resumption of humanitarian flights for Afghan civilians holding special visas who are still trying to flee the country. Mike Breen, the president and CEO of Human Rights First, joined Lana Zak on CBSN to discuss the evacuation effort.
Multiple planes with American citizens and green card holders at an airport in Mazar-e-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan, are being denied permission to leave the country by the Taliban. Correspondent Charlie D'Agata, in Doha, Qatar, reports the latest.
One family says a pregnant mother was shot dead in front of her children in Ghor, west of Kabul. Others said the Taliban broke up a protest by firing guns into the air. Charlie D'Agata reports.
Excerpts of an email from the State Department to members of Congress viewed by CBS News acknowledged that charter flights are still on the ground at the Mazar-i-Sharif airstrip.
As the protesters' shouts grew louder, several Taliban officials waded into the crowd to ask what they wanted to say.
Thousands of Afghan refugees have been taken to Qatar, where concerns remain high over the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan. The Biden administration says it plans to admit about 50,000 Afghan refugees to the U.S. But the process of leaving the country is complicated and full of twists and turns, even for people with dual citizenship. Christina Ruffini reports.
Wire transfer services to Afghanistan have resumed as the country's economy struggles under new rule. Afghans have been lining up for hours outside banks after the Taliban imposed a strict $200 weekly withdrawal limit. Obaidullah Baheer, a lecturer on transitional justice at the American University of Afghanistan, joined CBSN to discuss what comes next for the new government.
Thousands of Afghans who aided the American war effort are now staying temporarily at military bases across the U.S., awaiting further processing and more permanent housing. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez joins "CBSN AM" to talk about where the process currently stands.
A group of anti-Taliban fighters has vowed to protect the last significant area of Afghanistan that has not been seized by the Taliban. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata joined "CBSN AM" from Doha, Qatar, to discuss this and the latest news from Afghanistan.
The White House says it is closely watching "active" threats from ISIS-K in Afghanistan. Pentagon officials say it's "possible" the U.S. could collaborate with the Taliban to fight the terror organization. Andrew Mines, a research fellow for George Washington University's Program on Extremism, joins CBSN's Lana Zak with what to know about ISIS-K.
With U.S. troops fully withdrawn from Afghanistan and the Taliban now in charge, there are fears and uncertainty of what lies ahead. Nargis Nehan, who used to serve in the Afghan government, recently fled with the help of Norway. She joined CBSN to discuss her experiences, the fight for women's rights, and what her country is now facing.
"We are not afraid, we are united," said one woman who attended a demonstration in Herat that would have been inconceivable during the Taliban's first reign.
During his first Oval Office meeting with President Biden on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sought support from the White House on a range of issues. Meanwhile Republicans are seizing on an opportunity to attack President Biden's decisions in Afghanistan ahead of the 2022 midterms. CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge, CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion, USA Today White House correspondent Courtney Subramanian, and Insider politics reporter Oma Seddiq join CBSN's "Red & Blue" anchor Elaine Quijano with the details.
The Taliban is looking to set up a new government in Afghanistan as the U.N. secretary-general warns of a humanitarian crisis in the country. CBS News foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata speaks to CBSN about the latest following the U.S. withdrawal..
Now the Taliban has full control of Afghanistan they turn to the task of governing a divided country of 38 billion people. Charlie D'Agata looks at the challenges they face.
With Afghans scrabbling to get their cash out and even basic services like water and electricity at risk, the former insurgency is already looking for help, and getting it.
President Biden may have ended the "forever war" in Afghanistan, but as The Washington Post reports, the next phase of U.S. entanglement with the country "could also prove perilous." The Washington Post's diplomacy and national security reporter Missy Ryan joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" anchor Elaine Quijano with more on the future of U.S. counterterrorism efforts and the uncertainty facing tens of thousands of Afghan allies who are now refugees.
In his first address to the nation following the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Biden called evacuation efforts a success. Politico's White House correspondent Natasha Korecki and The Washington Post's Capitol Hill reporter Rhonda Colvin join CBSN's "Red & Blue" anchor Elaine Quijano with more on how the White House is responding to criticism over a number of Americans and allies left behind, and the latest push by Congress to pass legislation to help evacuees returning to the U.S.
As the U.S. military engagement in Afghanistan ends, tens of thousands of America's Afghan war allies are arriving in America to be resettled. CBS News immigration reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez joins CBSN AM to discuss the strain being put on the immigration bureaucracy and resettlement agencies.
