Afghan cricket team faces backlash over perceived support for Taliban

Senior team members say "politics" shouldn't interfere with sports, but Afghan women who've lost virtually all of their rights say it's not politics, it's "life."

• Jan 17, 2023

At least 13 killed as suicide bomber targets Afghan Taliban regime

Officials and witnesses said there was a large explosion outside the Ministry of Foreign Affairs just as employees were leaving for the day.

• Jan 11, 2023

Some of the dreams "ruined" by the Taliban's ban on women at college

One young woman told CBS News she felt "dead inside" when Afghanistan's hardline rulers brought back the status quo from before their 20-year war with America.

• Jan 6, 2023

Women weep as Taliban fighters block their access to Afghan universities

To protest the Taliban's decision, some male university teachers resigned from their jobs, and dozens of male students walked out of exams.

• Dec 21, 2022

Taliban bans women and girls from attending universities

Tuesday's order completed all the restrictions the Taliban imposed on Afghan women in the 1990s.

• Dec 20, 2022

Taliban official pardons his father's murderer: "I forgive him"

The ruling comes days after Taliban authorities carried out the first public execution since the Islamists seized power.

• Dec 19, 2022

Attack on Chinese in Afghanistan shows Taliban allies coming under fire

First it was a suicide bomber outside the Russian embassy, then an attempt on the Pakistani ambassador's life, and now a hotel used by Chinese nationals has been attacked.

• Dec 13, 2022

Taliban carries out 1st public execution since retaking Afghanistan

The extremists have made it clear that they'll bring back all of the brutal policies they were known for before being ousted with the U.S.-led invasion of 2001.

• Dec 7, 2022

Winter under the Taliban: Families struggle without work, warmth, or hope

"If he makes money, we eat. If he doesn't, we don't," one mother told CBS News, referring to the family's new breadwinner, her 11-year-old son.

• Dec 2, 2022

As Taliban doles out lashings, crackdown on Afghan women and girls continues

Public beatings, unexplained arrests of female activists and a litany of new restrictions are all part of the Taliban's bid "to forcefully silence women."

• Nov 21, 2022

Opium production increases 32% in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan

The Taliban has banned all drug production and insists the report is "not true," but with people starving, the U.N. says "Afghan farmers are trapped in the illicit opiate economy."

• Nov 1, 2022

Taliban blocks women from college subjects deemed "too difficult"

"These oppressors and enemies of women don't even let us study what book we want," one young student told CBS News through tears.

• Oct 14, 2022

Deadly blast tears through mosque near Afghan Interior Ministry

The blast comes just days after a suicide bombing killed dozens in a Kabul classroom​, including 46 girls and women.

• Oct 5, 2022

Women brave "brutal" Taliban response to protest "genocide" in Afghanistan

A bloody attack on young women from an oppressed ethnic group sparked protests. The response shows "how scared" the Taliban is of "women's voices."

• Oct 4, 2022

Deadly suicide blast tears through packed Kabul school hall

Hundreds of "students were preparing for an exam when a suicide bomber struck," a police spokesman said, with most victims said to be young women.

• Sep 30, 2022

American Mark Frerichs freed in prisoner swap with Taliban

The Taliban said the exchange could start a "new era" in U.S.-Taliban relations.

• Sep 19, 2022

Terrorist attack victims ask Biden for help with frozen Afghan funds

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

• Sep 15, 2022

U.S. frees $3.5 billion in frozen funds to help Afghan people

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.

• Sep 15, 2022

DHS lacked "critical data" when vetting Afghan evacuees, watchdog finds

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.

• Sep 7, 2022

Many Afghans "blame the Americans" for the scars of 20 years of war

CBS News meets villagers in Wardak Province, a Taliban stronghold that was caught for years on the front lines of the U.S.-led war, where the pain is still palpable.

• Sep 5, 2022

4 kids playing with unexploded shell killed at school in Afghanistan

The children were ages 7 to 14 and at least three others were injured, according to the police statement.

• Sep 3, 2022

U.S. to discontinue quick humanitarian entry for Afghans

Under Operation Allies Welcome, which will end next month, the U.S. has resettled roughly 86,000 Afghans who escaped Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

• Sep 2, 2022

Senior cleric close to Taliban rulers killed in Afghan suicide blast

The attack, which hit a packed mosque in the western city of Herat during Friday noon prayers, has left at least 18 people dead.

• Sep 2, 2022

Woman claims months of rape and abuse at hands of Taliban husband

"Nobody might see me again. I might die," the woman says through sobs in a video that's gone viral. "But it is better to die once than die repeatedly."

• Sep 1, 2022

1 year later, Afghans who helped U.S. still trapped and living in fear

Syed Mortaza Wafa spent years working for the U.S. Air Force. He says the Taliban are hunting for him, and he can't understand why America won't get him out.

• Aug 30, 2022

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