What America's longest war left behind

Imtiaz Tyab returned to Afghanistan, 25 years after 9/11, to report on what life is like there today, under Taliban rule.

• Sep 11
• 16:55

Inside Afghanistan, 25 years after 9/11

CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab reports from Kabul, Afghanistan, on what life is like there 25 years after 9/11.

• Sep 11
• 3:17

Life in rural Afghanistan, 25 years after 9/11

Most of the fighting during the nearly 20-year war between the U.S. and the Taliban that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks was in rural Afghanistan. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab traveled to those provinces to see what life is like there now.

• Sep 11
• 4:31

Look back: 9/11, Osama bin Laden, and a safe haven in Afghanistan

After terrorists attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, America's attention turned fully to the group's leader, Osama bin Laden, and his Al Qaeda network, which had found protection in Afghanistan. Correspondent Allen Pizzey reports on a country already devastated by more than 20 years of continuous warfare, which was anticipating further retaliation by Washington, in a story that originally aired Sept. 16, 2001. Pizzey also talks with Vicky and Mark Timlin, of the charity Hope Worldwide, whose head office ordered them to leave Afghanistan following the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

• Sep 16, 2001
• 3:27

Afghanistan War vets face trauma back home

Members of a U.S. Marines unit which suffered high casualties in the Afghanistan War share the struggles they faced when returning to civilian life, and the PTSD they dealt with years after war.

• Sep 9
• 13:33

Afghan girls who study in secret want you to read their "letters to the world"

21 Afghan girls, bravely defying the Taliban by continuing to study, handed CBS News letters containing their stifled, often humble dreams "for an ordinary life."

• Sep 9

U.S. strategies during the Afghanistan War

In 2011, 60 Minutes reported on the U.S. military strategy and operations during the Afghanistan War.

• Sep 9
• 13:19

Taliban uses U.S. equipment left behind

The Taliban is using U.S. military equipment that was left behind when the U.S. withdrew from Afghanistan five years ago. CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab reports.

• Sep 8
• 3:00

25 years after 9/11, Taliban rules Afghanistan again, but with U.S. firepower

CBS News finds Taliban forces patrolling Kabul in American armored vehicles, wearing American tactical gear and carrying American weapons.

• Sep 7

Taliban using U.S. weapons 5 years after exit

The 9/11 terror attacks, 25 years ago this week, were planned from inside the Taliban-controlled country of Afghanistan; a country that tonight is not only back under Taliban control, but with Taliban fighters carrying American weapons and driving around in American vehicles. CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab reports from Kabul.

• Sep 7
• 2:07

Taliban controls Afghanistan with U.S. gear

The Taliban remains in control of Afghanistan, using American weapons and gear that were left there after the U.S. pulled out in 2021.

• Sep 7
• 2:31

Taliban remains in control of Afghanistan

Imtiaz Tyab reports on how the Taliban remains in control of Afghanistan 25 years after the 9/11 attacks with the help of American gear and machinery.

• Sep 7
• 2:29

Taliban back in control 25 years after 9/11

Twenty-five years after 9/11 began America's longest war, and five years after it ended, the Taliban is firmly back in control in Afghanistan. Imtiaz Tyab in Kabul with a look back on America's longest war.

• Sep 6
• 2:18

Inside secret schools for Afghan girls

The Taliban has banned secondary education for girls, but there are some educators running secret schools for girls. Senior foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab looks into how girls are learning in the shadows.

• Sep 6
• 3:23

Dick Cheney on the war on terror

In November of 2001, Dick Cheney, then vice president, addressed the Afghanistan war, saying the U.S. was prepared to do "whatever's necessary" after the 9/11 terror attacks.

• Sep 4
• 14:06

Exclusive

ICE sends Afghans and others to Africa, expanding "third country" deportations

Over a 10-day period, the Trump administration sent more than 100 deportees from Afghanistan, Cuba and other nations to eight countries across Africa, according to internal government documents obtained by CBS News.

• Aug 30

Open: "Face the Nation," Aug. 30, 2026

This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who is recently back from the Ukraine region, joins to discuss the latest. Plus, with five years having passed since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a former Afghan general shares his story of the dramatic flight from the country.

• Aug 30
• 1:33

What has Iran war done to U.S. after 6 months?

Friday marks six months since the start of the Iran war. When it began, President Trump said it would last six weeks. CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent and "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan joins with analysis.

• Aug 28
• 5:58

8/28: The Takeout with Major Garrett

Iran war hits 6-month mark with negotiations stalled; Lindsay Clancy jury ends Day 2 of deliberations without a verdict.

• Aug 28
• 44:20

Pentagon upgrades awards of 3 Marines for actions after Abbey Gate attack

Five years after the attack in Afghanistan that killed 13 service members, the Pentagon upgraded the awards of three Marines who provided care in the wake of the blast.

• Aug 26

DOJ asking secretive court to remove Afghan woman allegedly tied to terror plot

The DOJ is seeking to deport an Afghan woman who prosecutors allege is an "alien terrorist," in the first-ever test case before a secretive court that has never convened since it was created three decades ago.

• Jul 30

Afghanistan's Taliban claims Pakistani airstrikes killed 36 civilians

Pakistani security forces carried out an intelligence-based ground operation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan​ border, followed by "calibrated strikes."

• Jun 29

Trump awards Medal of Honor to 3 veterans of the Vietnam, Afghanistan wars

In a ceremony at the White House, the president paid tribute to retired Marine Corps Maj. James Capers Jr., retired Army Maj. Nicholas Dockery and Marine Col. John W. Ripley, who died in 2008.

• Jun 18

U.S. deports migrants to non-native country

A U.S. official tells CBS News that the Trump administration deported about 20 migrants from countries including Afghanistan and Iran on Friday, sending them to the Central African Republic. CBS News immigration correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.

• Jun 12
• 5:33

Afghan Taliban forces open fire at protest sparked by dress code arrests

Afghanistan's Taliban rulers deny shooting at protesters and claim no women or girls have been arrested because they're all following strict dress code rules.

• Jun 9

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