Americans in Afghanistan face hard choices

CBS News follows one woman's struggle to find a way out of the Taliban-led country without leaving behind her family. CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge reports.

• Oct 23, 2021
• 4:08

Former U.S. Envoy to Afghanistan on trusting the Taliban and why he resigned

Zalmay Khalilzad shares his insight with Margaret Brennan in an exclusive interview.

• Oct 22, 2021
• 3:05

Afghan women protest for girls to go to school

Nearly two dozen Afghan women risked punishment from the Taliban by rallying to support education for all. Since the Taliban takeover, schools in Afghanistan have been off-limits to most older girls. But their desire to learn survives. Imtiaz Tyab reports.

• Oct 22, 2021
• 2:02

Former envoy to Afghanistan on the fate of girls under Taliban

With the Taliban back in control of Afghanistan, what is the fate of Afghan women and young girls?

• Oct 22, 2021
• 2:06

Afghan girls determined to return to school

Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, schools have been off-limits to most older girls. But women continue to rally for education for all.

• Oct 22, 2021

Taliban says ISIS-K no threat, but bloodshed tells a different story

"We can completely guarantee security for the Afghan people," a Taliban commander told CBS News, days after a mosque bombing killed more than 50 people.

• Oct 22, 2021

Afghan evacuees start to leave U.S. military sites

Approximately 55,000 Afghan evacuees remain at U.S. military sites waiting to be resettled in communities across America.

• Oct 21, 2021

7/1: Red and Blue

Bolton: Trump lacks 'interest in intelligence'; Catching up on the 2020 campaign trail

• Jul 1, 2020
• 31:02

7/2: Red and Blue

Controversy growing over Russian bounty intel; Pres. Trump to visit Mt. Rushmore for July 4th

• Jul 2, 2020
• 29:01

Taliban blames U.S. as 1 million Afghan kids face death by starvation

As the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan spirals out of control under Taliban rule, the militant group tells CBS News "the U.S. should release our money, so we can save more children."

• Oct 20, 2021

2/29/20: Red and Blue

CBS News projects Biden will win South Carolina; U.S. signs peace deal with the Taliban

• Feb 29, 2020
• 41:44

9/9/19: CBSN Evening News

Trump says Taliban peace talks are 'dead'; Alex Trebek returning to 'Jeopardy!'

• Sep 9, 2019
• 50:10

9/6/19: CBSN Evening News

CDC: more than 450 vaping related illnesses; India's moon lander aims to make history.

• Sep 6, 2019
• 55:11

7/26/19: CBSN Evening News

American returns home from detainment in Syria; Relic from Normandy invasion returns home.

• Jul 26, 2019
• 55:52

Taliban fail to quash hope in Afghanistan's women and girls

Deprived of work and school, many have decided to leave, but Afghan women from across the generations are angry, and they refuse to give up on a brighter future.

• Oct 18, 2021

U.S. to pay Kabul drone strike victims' family

The Defense Department announced it will offer condolence payments to family members of the 10 victims who were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August. Debra Alfarone has more.

• Oct 16, 2021
• 1:41

Afghan LGBTQ community fears persecution

LGBTQ people in Afghanistan live in fear, worried they will be persecuted and killed by the Taliban. Kimahli Powell, executive director of Rainbow Railroad, talks with CBSN's Tanya Rivero about the crisis and what his organization is doing to help.

• Oct 15, 2021
• 4:29

U.S. holds first major meeting with Taliban

U.S. officials and senior Taliban representatives met in Qatar over the weekend, and the State Department described the talks as "candid and professional." CBS News intelligence and national security reporter Olivia Gazis joins CBSN to discuss the issues at stake.

• Oct 11, 2021
• 5:58

U.S. and Taliban hold first talks since Afghanistan withdrawal

The two parties will be discussing containment of extremist groups in Afghanistan and easing evacuation of foreign citizens and Afghans from the country, officials from both sides said.

• Oct 11, 2021

U.S. officials hold meetings with the Taliban

U.S. officials and senior Taliban representatives held their second day of talks in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday. CBS news senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer joined Lana Zak on CBSN to discuss the agenda of the meetings.

• Oct 10, 2021
• 7:03

WorldView: U.S. submarine hits object in South China Sea

A U.S. nuclear submarine collided with an unknown "object" in waters in the South China Sea. Eleven sailors were injured. A former Taliban commander has been charged with killing U.S. troops in Afghanistan. Ireland has dropped its opposition to a 15% minimum tax rate on corporations. And the U.K. has cut its list of countries with COVID-19 travel restrictions from 54 to 7. Roxana Saberi reports from London.

• Oct 8, 2021
• 2:47

Afghanistan blast leaves at least 100 dead and wounded, Taliban says

There was no immediate claim for the blast in Kunduz province, but Islamic State militants have a long history of attacking Afghanistan's Shiite Muslim minority.

• Oct 8, 2021

ISIS-K is working to undermine, even infiltrate the Taliban regime

Sources tell CBS News the leader of Afghanistan's ISIS affiliate is working against the Taliban rulers from both inside and outside the group. That could quickly become a U.S. problem.

• Oct 8, 2021

Afghanistan, 20 years of U.S. action later

After a chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Biden administration and military leaders are facing criticism for the resurgence of the Taliban. Retired Navy SEAL Commander Dave Sears joins CBSN to discuss the mistakes made over the last two decades and the ongoing situation in the country.

• Oct 7, 2021
• 10:12

For our CBS News producer, the fall of Kabul was personal, and painful

CBS News' Ahmad Mukhtar has seen the Taliban take over Afghanistan twice. For him, and countless other Afghan journalists, it's more than a news story. It's a recurring nightmare.

• Oct 5, 2021

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