1,000 days after Taliban ban on girls in school, the resistance lives
Afghanistan's Taliban rulers bar girls over 12 from receiving a formal education, but some brave young women refuse to accept the draconian edict.
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Afghanistan's Taliban rulers bar girls over 12 from receiving a formal education, but some brave young women refuse to accept the draconian edict.
Retired Gen. Frank McKenzie, the former commander of the U.S. forces in the Middle East, writes in a new book that the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which was negotiated under former President Donald Trump and implemented under President Biden, was "one of the worst negotiating mistakes by the U.S." Both presidents, McKenzie tells "Face the Nation," shared a policy objective of leaving Afghanistan, regardless of the consequences."
The latest disaster came on the heels of devastating floods that killed at least 70 people in April.
Eight were wounded and according to preliminary information were from Norway, Australia, Lithuania and Spain.
Victims of the devastating floods in northern Afghanistan are burying the dead and looking for the loved ones still missing.
The U.N. food agency says more than 300 Afghans have died in flash floods that also destroyed more than 1,000 houses in the northern province of Baghlan.
Zakia Wardak, Afghanistan's top diplomat in India, announced her resignation after reportedly being stopped at an airport with the gold cache.
Conflicts in Israel and Ukraine have taken up a lot of the news cycle in the past months and even years. But how has the U.S.' focus on these international crises affected politics back home? Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, joins CBS News to discuss.
The petitions are the latest in the effort for Ryan Corbett's release.
Parts of central Asia, including Pakistan and Afghanistan, have been hit hard by unusually powerful rainstorms and flash floods.
Melting ice and unusually heavy seasonal rains have inundated parts of southern Russia and Central Asia with floodwater.
Nine children died in eastern Afghanistan when an old land mine exploded while they were playing with it, an official said.
The wife and children of American Ryan Corbett, who is being held hostage by the Taliban, say they are worried his health has "significantly deteriorated."
The Taliban promised the Trump administration it wouldn't allow terror groups to plot attacks on Afghan soil. That vow has gone unfulfilled.
The four men accused of carrying out the deadliest terror attack in Russia in nearly 20 years appeared in court on terrorism charges Sunday. More than 130 people were killed when the men allegedly opened fire at a concert hall near Moscow on Friday. An affiliate of the Islamic State group says it was behind the attack. CBS News national security contributor Sam Vinograd has more.
House Democrats are pushing for a bill to protect in vitro fertilization after the Alabama embryo ruling. New York Rep. Marc Molinaro, the first Republican to back the legislation, spoke with CBS News congressional correspondent Scott MacFarlane about the effort.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee is holding a hearing Tuesday with testimony from U.S. generals who played a role in the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin has more.
Two transgender Afghan refugees who managed to escape Taliban rule say they're no better off as refugees in Pakistan.
Pakistan's election results show jailed cricket star and former PM Imran Khan's backers defying the odds to win seats, even as he sits in a prison cell.
The leopard was captured after becoming trapped in a livestock enclosure, killing some 30 animals, officials said.
A report compiled for the U.N. Security Council says the Taliban has allowed al Qaeda to continue posing "a threat in the region and potentially beyond."
A powerful earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, killing almost 1,000 people, according to the country's ruling Taliban regime. Holly Williams has more.
This month, a group of veterans took the unusual step of suing the Defense Department for records about their toxic exposure. At least 15,000 service members passed through K2, an American base in Uzbekistan that was used to support classified missions in Afghanistan after 9/11. These veterans say public records from the Defense Department do not explain the high rates of illnesses they’re experiencing. Catherine Herridge reports.
CBS News reporter Musadiq Bidar discusses his personal experience of escaping Afghanistan as a boy when the Taliban first took over. He reflects on his family's refugee experience and becoming an Afghan American.
Imtiaz Tyab visits a children's hospital where supplies and conditions are dire. Around Kabul, many depend on rotten food and handouts, if they can get them. Since the Taliban took control a year ago, Afghanistan's economy has collapsed, prompting a humanitarian crisis.