Taliban

In the past 20 years women in Afghanistan made progress in education and politics, but international critics are skeptical that the Taliban will keep promises to respect the rights of women and girls. Recently, the Taliban announced it would be opening high schools – but only for boys. We hear from Rina Amiri, a former Obama administration adviser for Afghanistan...

The interim mayor of Afghanistan’s capital says female employees in the Kabul city government have been told to stay home unless their jobs cannot be filled by men

Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers have set up a ministry for the “propagation of virtue and the prevention of vice” in the building that once housed the Women’s Affairs Ministry.

Some of those left behind after the U.S. military’s chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan say they are scared the ruling Taliban will find them, throw them in jail, perhaps even kill them because they are Americans or had worked for the U.S. government

Prior to the Taliban takeover, 80% of the Afghan government’s budget was funded by the U.S. and other Western donors.

Brookings Institute senior fellow Michael O’Hanlon discussed the current state of Afghanistan under Taliban rule.

Joe Petito, the father of missing 22-year-old Gabby Petito, explains why he’s urging her fiance to work with authorities in their search for his daughter.

The United Nations has drummed up more than $1.2 billion in emergency pledges for helping 11 million Afghans facing an escalating humanitarian crisis in their homeland and millions more elsewhere in the region

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during a contentious congressional hearing on Monday that the Taliban “is the de facto government of Afghanistan.”

Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) explains why the Biden administration’s timeline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan limited America’s negotiating ability.

Kabul’s main prison was once crowded with thousands of Taliban captured or arrested by the government during Afghanistan’s long war

President Joe Biden next week will deliver his first speech before the United Nations General Assembly since taking office.

The higher education minister in the new Taliban government says women can study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but that classrooms will be gender-segregated and that Islamic dress is compulsory

The Taliban raised their flag over the Afghan presidential palace in a low-key ceremony just as the U.S. and the world marked the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks

CNBC asked former CIA, military and diplomatic personnel what they feel America has learned — and failed to learn — since Sept. 11, 2001.

Andy Card, who served as chief of staff to President George W. Bush, recalls a lesser-known phone call made by the president on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

U.S. government contracts in Afghanistan fueled a system of mass corruption that engulfed the country and, eventually, doomed its fragile democracy. 

U.S. veterans, lawmakers and others say the relaunch of evacuation flights from Kabul has done little to soothe fears that the U.S. might abandon countless Afghan allies who risked their lives working alongside American troops.

Regional experts are not all convinced of China’s enthusiasm for barreling into the war-torn Central Asian state on its western border.  

Dozens of foreigners, including Americans, have left Kabul aboard a Qatar Airways plane heading to Doha, the first large-scale international commercial flight to depart Afghanistan since last month’s U.S. withdrawal.