Sep 14 Watch 9:31 Sen. Barrasso on 'epic failure' of Afghanistan exit, 'reckless' $3.5T spending bill By PBS NewsHour Secretary of State Antony Blinken was on Capitol Hill Tuesday, appearing again before a congressional oversight panel about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Blinken was peppered by both Democrats and Republicans about the Biden White House strategy and planning. Republican… Continue watching
Sep 13 Watch 8:21 Afghanistan's economy, emergency services suffer as U.S. debates Taliban diplomacy By Nick Schifrin It has been four weeks since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan. As the militant group cements control in the absence of U.S. military forces — restricting the rights of women and minorities — the lives of millions more afghans… Continue watching
Sep 12 Watch 5:19 Taliban raises flag, get ready to form government, 20 years after 9/11 By PBS NewsHour As the globe marked the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Taliban formally raised their flag over the Afghan presidential palace in Kabul, officially marking the beginning of their governance in the conflict-torn nation. Several of their key officials… Continue watching
Sep 12 Qatar sends high-level delegation to Afghanistan By Associated Press Taliban political spokesman Suhail Shaheen tweeted Sunday about the high-level delegation, saying it included Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdur Rahman Al-Thani, the deputy prime minister who is also Qatar’s foreign minister. Continue reading
Sep 09 Watch 3:48 Many Afghans haven't eaten in weeks as Taliban rule triggers humanitarian crisis By Ali Rogin, Layla Quran An international commercial flight took off from the Kabul airport Thursday for the first since the Taliban seized the country. On the evacuation flight were 200 foreigners, among them Americans. But they leave behind a country in a humanitarian crisis. Continue watching
Sep 09 Scores of Westerners, including Americans, fly commercial out of Kabul By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press The departure on Thursday represented a breakthrough in the bumpy coordination between the U.S. and Afghanistan’s new Taliban leaders. Continue reading
Sep 07 Watch 3:37 What we know about the Taliban men who will form Afghanistan's interim government The Taliban takeover of Afghanistan continues as the group announced leaders of a "caretaker" government Tuesday. Meanwhile, the U.S. secretaries of state and defense were in the Gulf region, in Qatar, where the American evacuation mission is headquartered, and the… Continue watching
Sep 07 Watch 8:54 Two experts on Afghanistan's 'caretaker' government and its ties to other terrorist groups To learn more about the men leading the new Taliban government in Afghanstan, Judy Woodruff speaks to Ahmed Rashid, a journalist and author of "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia," and Douglas London, who had a 34-year… Continue watching
Sep 07 Taliban form all-male Afghan government of old guard members By Kathy Gannon, Associated Press The Taliban announced an all-male interim government for Afghanistan stacked with veterans of their hard-line rule from the 1990s and the 20-year battle against the U.S.-led coalition, a move that seems unlikely to win the international support. Continue reading
Sep 06 Watch 2:35 Taliban gain control of Panjshir Valley but are yet to form an official government By Ali Rogin A senior State Department official confirmed the United States evacuated four Americans from Afghanistan and relocated them to a nearby country in the first known U.S. overland extraction since the August 31 withdrawal deadline. As Ali Rogin reports, that comes… Continue watching