Afghan family on life in the largest resettlement complex for evacuees

There are challenges, but also gratitude and hope for families starting a new life and getting their chance at achieving the American dream.

• Oct 1, 2021

"We felt in danger": Afghan evacuees in U.S. describe fleeing the Taliban

Many families have arrived at Fort McCoy — one of eight U.S. bases helping to resettle more than 60,000 Afghan evacuees​ — with nothing but the clothes on their backs.

• Sep 30, 2021

Afghan interpreter on hiding from the Taliban: "Every moment I'm in danger"

Documents reviewed by CBS News suggest Shirzad applied for a special immigrant visa​ as early as 2016.

• Sep 24, 2021

Turkey builds a wall to keep out Afghan refugees

Afghans who survive the trek through Iran to the Turkish border, which can take weeks, will now be met with a wall of concrete slabs 10 feet high.

• Sep 23, 2021

The Taliban has robbed Afghan women of work, school and safety

Vulnerable women who'd been protected by the previous government from their own families now "have nowhere to go." For some, it's probably already too late.

• Sep 22, 2021

Taliban tells women and girls to stay home from work and school

"I may as well be dead," one woman laments as the Islamic fundamentalists initiate a clear, if undeclared slide back to the repressive days of their 1st reign over Afghanistan.

• Sep 20, 2021

Another evacuation flight leaves Afghanistan with 28 U.S. citizens

It is not clear how many Americans remain in Afghanistan.

• Sep 18, 2021

U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan killed as many as 10 civilians

An investigation by U.S. Central Command determined that the August 29 strike in Kabul killed an innocent aid worker and as many as nine of his family members.

• Sep 17, 2021

Where Afghan refugees are expected to be resettled, by state

California and Texas are set to receive thousands of Afghans evacuated to the U.S., while other states are expected to resettle fewer than a dozen or none at all.

• Sep 16, 2021

Malala Yousafzai says Biden has "huge responsibility" to Afghan women

Yousafzai said the president should "stand up and support the rights of women in Afghanistan."

• Sep 15, 2021

U.S. Marine wounded in Kabul attack gives eyewitness account

U.S. Marine Major Ben Sutphen was just 15 feet away when a suicide bomber detonated a bomb last month near an entrance to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.

• Sep 15, 2021

Obama, Bush, Clinton join forces with new group helping Afghan evacuees

The organization, Welcome.US, formally launches Tuesday.

• Sep 14, 2021

U.N. raises funds for Afghanistan "lifeline" as starvation looms

"After decades of war, suffering and insecurity, they face perhaps their most perilous hour, " U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said.

• Sep 13, 2021

Body of 22-year-old Marine killed in Kabul blast returned home

Corporal Humberto Sanchez, 22, of Logansport, Indiana, was among 13 servicemembers killed in a suicide bombing during the U.S.-run evacuation at Afghanistan's Kabul airport in August.

• Sep 12, 2021

Kinzinger says "a lot of people" to blame for missteps in Afghan withdrawal

Kinzinger is a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, which will hear from Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday.

• Sep 12, 2021

Ruling Taliban settle into Afghan capital as world commemorates 9/11

White Taliban flags waved near the now-empty U.S. Embassy in Kabul and members of the group strolled throughout the capital city on Saturday.

• Sep 11, 2021

Another 21 U.S. citizens evacuated from Afghanistan

The State Department did not say how many Americans remain in Afghanistan.

• Sep 10, 2021

As Taliban's crackdown on dissent turns deadly, escape is for the few

2nd flight expected to carry about 200 more people out of Afghanistan, but as an unapologetic Taliban cements its power through violence, that's a drop in the bucket.

• Sep 10, 2021

Taliban lets Americans, other foreigners leave on flight from Kabul

U.S. and Qatari officials said a group of Americans and other foreigners would be among the first to fly out of Afghanistan as Kabul's airport slowly resumes operations.

• Sep 10, 2021

Petraeus says Afghanistan withdrawal did "damage to our credibility"

The wartime general reflected on the 20-year war with CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett.

• Sep 10, 2021

Homeland Security chief says there are no credible 9/11 threats

Despite the lack of a specific threat, DHS warned the 9/11 anniversary could create a "heightened threat environment," and Mayorkas said the agency is "ever vigilant."

• Sep 7, 2021

Taliban faces defiant protests as "around 100" Americans await escape

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.

• Sep 7, 2021

4 Americans depart Afghanistan as Blinken arrives in Qatar

This is the first departure by land from Afghanistan facilitated by the State Department since the U.S. military withdrawal was completed at the end of August.

• Sep 7, 2021

Taliban claims to defeat resistance amid fear for trapped Americans

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.

• Sep 7, 2021

Taliban isn't letting charter flights leave Afghanistan, officials say

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.

• Sep 5, 2021

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