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…
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…
The nobly stated goal was to promote law and order and government accountability, and to modernize a war-ravaged land. But in the Taliban's lightning seizure of power, most of that digital apparatus fell into the hands of an unreliable ruler.
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.
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…
Last week’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Taliban’s rapid takeover, and the ensuing death, chaos and confusion left many reeling. For some of the millions of U.S. service members who served there, the withdrawal has come with mixed feelings and worry…
At least four planes chartered to evacuate several hundred people seeking to escape the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan have been unable to leave the country for days, officials said Sunday, with conflicting accounts emerging about why they flights weren’t able…
Taliban special forces in camouflage fired their weapons into the air Saturday, bringing an abrupt and frightening end to the latest protest march in the capital by Afghan women demanding equal rights from the new rulers.
In our news wrap Friday, as the Taliban works to set up a new government, dozens of Afghan women protested near the Presidential Palace in Kabul to demand equal rights. President Joe Biden signed an executive order today directing the…
In our news wrap Thursday, the Biden administration pledged a $3 billion investment in the nation's COVID-19 vaccine supply chain. First-time claims for unemployment benefits in the U.S. have fallen to a new low during the pandemic. Calmer winds in…
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