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A Taliban fighter stands as he guards a checkpoint in Kabul, Afghanistan

World Dec 08

Afghanistan is on the brink of mass starvation. Where is international aid?

By Nick Schifrin, Jane Ferguson

World Nov 16

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Aid groups struggle to continue humanitarian aid for starving, injured Afghans

Winter has come to Afghanistan, and brought with it a skyrocketing need for aid to millions of desperate Afghans. International humanitarian groups are working to stave off widespread hunger, while providing other services under a Taliban regime widely considered a…

By Jane Ferguson

World Sep 15

Afghan women's soccer team along with their families pose for a group photo upon their arrival in Lahore
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News Wrap: Afghanistan’s women’s soccer team escape to Pakistan

In our news wrap Wednesday, members of the Afghan women's soccer team along with coaches and families crossed into Pakistan and will seek asylum in other countries. North and South Korea traded missile tests amid rising tensions. Pope Francis says…

Politics Sep 14

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee confirmation hearing for Samantha Power to lead the U.S. Agency for International ...
Watch 9:31
Sen. Barrasso on ‘epic failure’ of Afghanistan exit, ‘reckless’ $3.5T spending bill

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…

By PBS NewsHour

World Sep 14

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Former Afghan police women being killed, forced into hiding after Taliban takeover

Over the past two decades, tens of thousands of Afghans rose to the occasion and took jobs in the public sector to help their country and their livelihoods. Now that the U.S. has pulled out, many feel abandoned. One particular…

By Lindsey Hilsum, Independent Television News

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…

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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.

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Sep 07

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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…

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Sep 07

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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…

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Sep 06

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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…

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