UN education envoy says Afghan girls face "crime against humanity"
The U.N.'s education envoy on Tuesday said the Taliban's denial of education and employment to Afghan girls and women "should count as a crime against humanity."
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The U.N.'s education envoy on Tuesday said the Taliban's denial of education and employment to Afghan girls and women "should count as a crime against humanity."
Two years after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, women who were deployed with U.S. forces as part of the Afghan Military Female Tactical Platoon are fighting for permanent residency in the U.S. The women were displaced by the Taliban and a temporary humanitarian program allowing their stay in the states is set to expire this summer. Farida Mohammadi, a female tactical platoon leader, joined CBS News to discuss the situation.
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The attack targeted a political rally for a pro-Taliban cleric, and that group's rival, the local ISIS affiliate, is based just over the border in Afghanistan.
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The bombing was one of the worst attacks in the northwest since 2014, when 147 people were killed in a Taliban attack on an army-run school in Peshawar.
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The boy was one of hundreds of Afghan children who arrived to the U.S. in 2021 without their parents after being evacuated from Afghanistan.
Local officials said almost 80 elementary schoolers, along with a handful of teachers and a parent, were affected in the latest mass-poisoning of Afghan children.
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Many Afghan women worry the Doha meeting could lead to something they vehemently oppose, official recognition of the Taliban as Afghanistan's government.
Senior administration officials tell CBS News the ISIS-K leader behind the deadly 2021 attack at the Kabul airport has been killed by the Taliban. The bombing, during the U.S. withdrawal of Afghanistan, killed 13 Americans and more than 100 Afghan civilians. Brett Bruen, president of the Global Situation Room and former director of global engagement at the White House joined Anne-Marie Green on "CBS News Mornings" to discuss the development.
The Taliban killed an ISIS leader who planned the Aug. 26, 2021 suicide bombing at Kabul International Airport. Thirteen U.S. service members were killed in the attack and 45 were wounded. At least 170 Afghan civilians were killed. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports.
The Taliban has killed the ISIS leader who orchestrated the suicide bombing at Kabul Airport in 2021, killing 13 U.S. military officials and roughly 170 Afghans. CBS News has confirmed the Taliban is responsible for the ISIS takedown. David Martin has more on this development in what was a haunting moment in America's haphazard Afghanistan withdrawal.
The ISIS leader responsible for the 2021 Kabul airport attack that killed 13 U.S. service members has been killed by the Taliban, according to Biden administration officials. David Martin has more.
Aid workers in Afghanistan whose organizations are supported by U.S. funding say they're forced to "serve the Taliban first" since the U.S. withdrawal.
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Distribution of desperately needed food and medical aid has been impeded by the Taliban edict banning women from working at international organizations.
The latest step in the Taliban's systematic obliteration of women's rights will also be a major blow to the humanitarian aid work millions of Afghans rely on.
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Postpartum psychosis (not to be confused with postpartum depression) is a psychiatric emergency with symptoms that can be extreme and dangerous, as testified in the trial of Lindsay Clancy. Correspondent Faith Salie talks with experts about the symptoms, diagnosis and stigma surrounding postpartum psychosis; and with a mother whose experience of hallucinations and distorted reality soon after giving birth threatened her and her family.
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Lindsay Clancy's lawyer Kevin Reddington told "CBS Mornings" that he plans to file a motion for her case to be thrown out after her murder trial ended in a mistrial. CBS News' Shanelle Kaul reports.
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