Afghanistan gets internet back after Taliban's unexplained web shutdown
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers blocked internet access nationally for two days without any explanation, but suddenly, the country is coming back online.
Watch CBS News
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers blocked internet access nationally for two days without any explanation, but suddenly, the country is coming back online.
A local Taliban spokesperson in northern Afghanistan said that the Taliban leader had ordered the ban "to prevent immoral activities."
An American citizen held by the Taliban since December 2024 has been released from Afghanistan, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Sunday.
The new documentary "Bodyguard of Lies" from See It Now Studios looks back at America's 20-year war in Afghanistan, featuring testimony from government insiders and newly released footage. John Sopko, the former Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, joins "CBS Mornings Plus" for more.
The new Paramount+ documentary "Bodyguard of Lies" highlights the efforts across four presidential administrations to conceal the challenges the U.S. faced during the Afghanistan War. John Sopko, who served as the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction under former President Barack Obama, joins "The Takeout" to discuss.
President Trump is renewing his call to reestablish a U.S. presence at Bagram, even saying "we're talking now to Afghanistan" about the matter.
The Taliban is reacting to President Trump's remarks about the U.S. regaining access to the Bagram air base in Afghanistan. CBS News' Charlie D'Agata reprts.
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have released British couple Peter and Barbie Reynolds, who were held for almost eight months without charge.
President Trump said he is trying to get the Bagram air base in Afghanistan "back" during his press conference with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Jonathan Wachtel, a global affairs analyst and OurCo co-founder, joins CBS News to discuss the announcement's significance.
This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," in the wake of a forthcoming GOP report on Afghanistan, House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul discusses its findings with Margaret Brennan. Plus, Brennan speaks with former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley.
No information was provided on how many people are being held in each country, who they are or why they were imprisoned.
Afghanistan earthquake survivors are burying their loved ones in mass graves four days after the disaster, which the Taliban says killed at least 2,205 people.
A doctor in Afghanistan's earthquake zone tells CBS News the "destruction is overwhelming," with people still trapped under the rubble of their homes.
At least 800 people are dead and more than 2,500 are injured after a strong earthquake hit a mountainous area of Afghanistan late Sunday night. The BBC's Yogita Limaye reports.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 6 hit eastern Afghanistan, destroying multiple villages and killing more than 800 people, officials say.
Rescue workers are searching for victims of a 6.0 magnitude earthquake that struck eastern Afghanistan in the middle of the night. More than 800 people were killed. Elizabeth Palmer has the latest.
A 6.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Afghanistan, killing at least 800 people and injuring more than 2,000, officials said. CBS News' Holly Williams has the latest.
The Taliban is deepening its rule of Afghanistan four years after the U.S. withdrawal. CBS News' Charlie D'Agata looks back at the conflict in the Middle East.
Seventy-six people were killed in a collision between a bus carrying Afghan migrants just deported by Iran and two other vehicles in western Afghanistan, officials say.
Chuck Rotenberry served in Iraq and Afghanistan and returned home with post-traumatic stress disorder. He encouraged veterans confronting PTSD to not give up hope.
Dewey Yopp, a retired U.S. Army Special Forces officer, says his Afghan translator saved his life four times during the war in Afghanistan.
Thousands of Afghans living in the United States are no longer protected from deportation after a federal appeals court on Monday refused to freeze the Trump administration's efforts to end their legal status. Adam Yamaguchi has the story of a former Afghan translator who fears he will be deported.
Thousands of people from Afghanistan and Cameroon face the risk of deportation on Tuesday night. It comes after an appeals court ruled the Trump administration can end a program that grants temporary protections and work permits. CBS News immigration and politics reporter Camilo Montoya-Galvez reports.
An appellate court allowed the Trump administration to end a program that grants temporary deportation protections and work permits to more than 10,000 people from Afghanistan and Cameroon.
A former senior Taliban official told CBS News that while the move was welcome, "Russia and China can't financially support us the way the Americans did."