Nobel Prize winner Malala visits her Pakistan hometown
Pakistan’s Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai on Saturday arrived in her hometown for the first time since a Taliban militant shot her there in 2012 for advocating girls’ education.
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What more women in government would mean for Afghanistan
War is a reality of life in Afghanistan, but it's not all-consuming, say a delegation of Afghan women leaders who recently visited Washington. The country is also undergoing significant social and cultural shifts around gender and leadership. Judy Woodruff talks…
U.S., Afghan leaders agree on peace push, Taliban don’t
The Afghan government's surprising new peace offer to the Taliban is immediately running into a wall.
U.S. intensifies focus on Taliban, shifts air power to Afghanistan
Air Force Maj. Gen. James Hecker told reporters at the Pentagon today that the U.S. Central Command officially designated Afghanistan as its "main effort," now that the campaign against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria is winding down…
Major pre-planned attacks have hit an all-time high in Afghanistan's capital Kabul. Here's why.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump told visiting members of the U.N. Security Council on Monday the U.S. would no longer talk with the Taliban following a recent string of deadly attacks in Afghanistan.
At least 122 people have been killed in Kabul, the capital in Afghanistan, by recent attacks claimed by the Taliban. The latest was on Saturday, when an ambulance packed with explosives drove through a security checkpoint and detonated in the…
On this edition for Saturday, Jan. 27, a deadly bombing in Afghanistan claims nearly 100 lives, and a look at the legal implications of the Larry Nassar case for U.S.A. Gymnastics. Also, asylum-seekers are fleeing the United States for Canada.
A suicide bomber who hid explosives inside an ambulance killed at least 95 people and injured 158 others in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul on Saturday after detonating the device near a police checkpoint.
