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As U.S. servicemembers prepare to leave Afghanistan after 20 years of fighting alongside local forces against militants and hunting al Qaeda terrorists, CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports on how America's mission there has evolved – and now ends.
The Taliban's official spokesman tells CBS News' Charlie D'Agata that the insurgent group has no problem with women enjoying "basic rights," and insists any ties with al Qaeda and ISIS have been severed.
The Taliban hasn't talked peace with the Afghan government in 9 months, and with fears rising of an all-out civil war, some are already planning an "organized resistance."
1st Vice President Amrullah Saleh tells CBS News it was a mistake to negotiate with the Taliban, who remain "shoulder-to-shoulder" with terrorists who attacked the U.S.
It has been 10 years since then-President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. had successfully killed the leader of al-Qaida, Osama bin Laden. Thomas Joscelyn, senior fellow and senior editor at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, joins CBSN to discuss the impact the former al-Qaida leader's death had on the terrorist network.
Travers discusses Islamist terrorism and describes how geographically dispersed tied to ISIS and al Qaeda continue to pose a threat to the U.S.
Inside al Qaeda: Living and working with terrorists; Reforming solitary confinement at infamous California prison; then, billionaire Koch brother's crusade against counterfeit wine.
Whistleblower says bishop knew of sexual abuse allegations, but did nothing; then, what remains to be done in the final phase of America's war on ISIS; and, meet Jaap van Zweden, the new maestro of the New York Philharmonic
Did the FDA ignite the opioid epidemic? Then, should a former terrorist be allowed into witness protection? And, China's drive to dominate the electric car industry
The Taliban has intensified its military offensive across Afghanistan as President Joe Biden looks a potential end to America's longest war in the near future. Biden is reviewing the Trump administration's 2020 peace deal that calls for all U.S. troops to leave the country by May 1. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Charlie D'Agata joins CBSN to explain what's at stake.
At least 400 students are missing after an attack on a boys school in Nigeria. Sailors were able to safely escape after an oil tanker near a port in Saudi Arabia was hit with an explosion. Indonesian police say they've arrested one of the most senior Al Qaeda-linked militants in the country. And Australia is facing cyclone-like storm damage. CBS News foreign correspondent Ian Lee joins "CBSN AM" with today's global headlines.
At least 18 were killed and 57 wounded in a separate suicide attack in Kabul on Saturday.
It took years of cajoling by Washington to get the insurgents to agree to sit down with Afghan officials. They say they're ready "to be nice this time."
This week, as we mark 19 years since the 9/11 attacks, CBS News reveals the untold story of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge got exclusive access to one of the CIA's secret elements in planning the raid.
A U.S. general called for continued partnership with African countries in the fight against extremism. Ten prison guards in Mexico City are being questioned after several high-profile inmates escaped. And an independent watchdog has ruled against Prince Harry over a complaint against a British tabloid. CBS News' Debora Patta rounds up the world headlines from Johannesburg.
Fourteen people are on trial in France for providing material and logistical support to terrorists in the deadly 2015 attacks on the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo and a kosher market. Most of the suspects deny foreknowledge of a terror plot. CBS News reporter Elaine Cobbe joins CBSN's Anne-Marie Green from Paris to talk about the first day of the trial.
The Department of Homeland Security warned airlines Wednesday to be on heightened alert for passengers hiding explosives in their shoes. Former CIA deputy director Mike Morell says the threat may be linked to al Qaeda in Yemen and a bomb maker named Ibrahim al-Asiri.
The federal government is asking airlines to watch out again for shoe bombers. An intelligence source told CBS News the alert is based on recent terrorist chatter. CBS News senior security contributor Mike Morell, former deputy CIA director, addresses the threat and surmises how it may have originated.
Locals say al Qaeda was an excuse in the fight between Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki's Shia-controlled army against the Sunni tribes in Anbar province. Sunni tribal leaders, who say they are persecuted and marginalized, are fighting back. Elizabeth Palmer reports.
Mike Wallace’s trip to the “strangely tranquil” U.S. naval base known as Gitmo, 30 years before it housed accused 9/11 terrorists and al Qaeda fighters
The case of two terror suspects who claim they were tortured in a secret CIA prison in Poland has reached Europe's Human Rights Court. The case involves a Saudi national accused in the deadly al-Qaeda attack on the USS Cole in 2000, and a Palestinian man who has never been charged with a crime. CBS News' Tina Kraus reports.
The controversial word choice by PM Imran Khan appeared deliberate, and it is likely to worsen ties between Islamabad and Washington.
The FBI gained access to the gunman's phones that "definitively establishes" his ties to the terror group, Attorney General William Barr said.
Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray revealed new evidence gleaned from the iPhones of a Saudi gunman who opened fire at a naval air station in Pensacola, Florida, in December, killing three U.S. service members. Barr said the evidence shows 21-year-old Mohammed Saeed Alshamrani had "significant ties" to al Qaeda's offshoot in Yemen. Watch their remarks.
A U.S. service member and two Defense Department contractors were killed Sunday in an attack by an al Qaeda-linked group on a military base in Kenya used by American forces. The U.S. Africa Command blamed al Shabaab, al Qaeda's outpost in Africa, for the attack.
