U.S. offers $5 million reward for Afghan-American believed abducted in 2022
The U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information that helps find Mahmood Habibi, an Afghan-American national it says was abducted in Kabul in 2022.
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The U.S. is offering a $5 million reward for information that helps find Mahmood Habibi, an Afghan-American national it says was abducted in Kabul in 2022.
The U.S. says Afghanistan's Taliban rulers are trying to "complete the erasure of women" from society, but Afghan women refuse to be erased quietly.
In September, more than a year after he was imprisoned, the State Department determined that Ryan Corbett had been wrongfully detained by the Taliban.
An Afghan family that was separated during the Taliban takeover in August 2021 finally reunited in Modesto and has a lot to be thankful for.
An annual ceremony to remember those who died on September 11, 2001, was held in lower Manhattan on Monday.
The bombing was one of the worst attacks in the northwest since 2014, when 147 people were killed in a Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar.
Women who work in Afghanistan's salons say thousands more are about to be forced out of work by the latest Taliban decree.
The latest step in the Taliban's systematic obliteration of women's rights will also be a major blow to the humanitarian aid work millions of Afghans rely on.
Chase, a furry white spaniel with brown spots, is expected to make the trip to the US and reunite with his handler soon.
"Afghanistan has become a prison for women," one activist told CBS News, "and the world is just watching."
To protest the Taliban's decision, some male university teachers resigned from their jobs, and dozens of male students walked out of exams.
Tuesday's order completed all the restrictions the Taliban imposed on Afghan women in the 1990s.
"They will soon be reunited with their loved ones, and we are absolutely gratified to see that," said a State Department spokesperson.
Top Biden administration officials met in person with the Taliban on Saturday for the first time since al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri was killed by the US in his apartment in Kabul in late July, two officials familiar with the talks said.
A Modesto family of nine is telling their story of survival after one of them didn't make it out of Afghanistan alive. A night at home hasn't felt this good, or more importantly, this safe in months.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and California legislative leaders on Friday requested $16.7 million in state money to help resettle Afghan refugees in the state.
The violence surrounding the Kabul airport is now forcing a Sacramento mother to hunker down with her four children as she desperately tries to get home to her husband.
Sacramento business owner Ahmad Samir shared a snapshot of nine family passports. They are all members of his family stuck in Afghanistan, desperate to leave Taliban-controlled Kabul.
A Sacramento family, including a mother and her four children, were desperately pleading for help to get out of Afghanistan. They have been stuck in Kabul since the Taliban takeover.
The sound of gunfire and chaotic images are part of a firsthand perspective of the devastation a Sacramento woman's fiancé has seen the last three days at Afghanistan's Kabul airport
Federal authorities say four Southern California men have been charged with plotting to kill Americans overseas and in the United States by joining al-Qaida and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
With the situation getting worse on the ground Obama has ended the surge just in time for the election in November. Taliban and related attacks against NATO powers were approximately 2,700 in August of 2009 when Obama made his contrary-to-campaign promised-move to step up the nation's military assistance in Afghanistan. Three years later, in August of 2012, there were more attacks – nearly 3,000.
It's the picture that's sparking controversy around the world. Several Marines were caught on tape urinating on the bodies of dead enemy combatants.
