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

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• Sep 7
• 17:52

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 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

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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

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

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

Taliban releases detained U.S. citizen Dennis Coyle

The foreign ministry said in a statement it agreed after a letter from his family that Dennis Coyle "would be pardoned and released" for Eid.

• Mar 25

Pakistan, Afghanistan in "open war"

Pakistan has declared an "open war" with Afghanistan following months of conflict. CBS News' Imtiaz Tyab and Sam Vinograd have more.

• Feb 27
• 5:59

Pakistan declares "open war" with Afghanistan as airstrikes rock Kabul

Pakistan bombed major Afghan cities and declared "open war" after Afghanistan's Taliban rulers claimed an unprecedented aerial attack on Islamabad.

• Feb 27

Taliban remains major threat in Afghanistan

The Taliban remains a major threat in Afghanistan a year after the Trump administration implemented new strategy there. There have been multiple deadly attacks there in the last month. Cipher Brief expert and former CIA station chief Kevin Hulbert joins CBSN's "Red & Blue" to discuss the situation.

• Aug 23, 2018
• 6:27

4 suspects arrested after bombing at Pakistan mosque leaves 31 dead

Friday's attack was the deadliest suicide bombing in Islamabad in nearly 20 years.

• Feb 7

U.S. troops take Taliban villages by surprise

Scott Pelley reports from Afghanistan, where troops from the 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team are carrying America's counter insurgency strategy through the Taliban heartland village by village, often at night.

• Oct 4, 2011
• 3:52

American Dennis Coyle marks 1 year of detention in Afghanistan

Dennis Coyle, 64, was abducted from his Kabul apartment last year and has been held in near-solitary confinement by the Taliban.

• Jan 26

Taliban detains 4 men for dressing up as "Peaky Blinders" characters

For the Taliban religious police, four young friends' passion for Thomas Shelby's flat cap fashion was a step too far in the "spread of harmful cultures."

• Dec 9, 2025

Afghan rulers vow response after Pakistani strikes kill 10 near border

Afghanistan's Taliban government says it will "respond appropriately" to Pakistani strikes that killed 10 people near the country's shared border.

• Nov 25, 2025

Suicide bombers in Pakistan kill at least 3 at security force headquarters

Police say two suicide bombers attacked the headquarters of a security force in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least three officers.

• Nov 24, 2025

Suicide bomber targets Islamabad court, killing 12 people

Pakistani officials implicate Afghanistan and India as explosion hits courts in Islamabad, killing at least a dozen people.

• Nov 11, 2025

Afghan quake death toll climbs as families face winter without homes

The death toll from an earthquake in northern Afghanistan is climbing, and hundreds of families have lost their homes as the harsh winter arrives.

• Nov 4, 2025

Afghans on humanitarian parole face deportation

Since the Taliban regained control of Afghanistan in 2021, some 200,000 Afghans have found refuge in the U.S. Most were given ""humanitarian parole"" to stay in the country. But the Trump administration has ended those protections and many now face deportation back to Afghanistan, where they fear Taliban retribution. Washington Post reporter John Woodrow Cox joins to discuss one such case.

• Oct 15, 2025
• 4:31

Taliban reports ceasefire with Pakistan after unprecedented clashes

Cross-border fighting between Pakistan and Taliban-ruled Afghanistan reached a fever pitch, with Pakistan carrying out airstrikes in Kabul.

• Oct 15, 2025

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