Taliban kills ISIS leader who planned Kabul Airport suicide bombing – CBS News Watch CBS News The Taliban has killed the ISIS leader who orchestrated the suicide bombing at Kabul Airport in 2021, killing 13 U.S. military officials and roughly 170 Afghans. CBS News has confirmed the Taliban is responsible for the ISIS takedown. David … Read more
Afghanistan’s Taliban regime arrested a well-known education campaigner this week for his work and for holding “meetings with Westerners,” as the Islamic hardliners continue their efforts to stamp out dissent and keep girls out of school. The United Nations mission in Afghanistan said Matiullah Wesa, the founder of the Pen Path organization which has spent … Read more
An explosion near Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kabul killed at least six people Monday in the latest attack appearing to target the country’s ruling Taliban regime. The blast left many more wounded as it struck as government employees were leaving work for the day, according to a Kabul police official. The explosion happened … Read more
Islamabad — As the world marks International Women’s Day on Wednesday, the women of Afghanistan have little to celebrate. The Taliban regime has methodically stripped them of their basic rights since reclaiming power over the country in the summer of 2021. Forced from most workplaces and higher education, many women with the means to do so … Read more
A group of girls describe their escape from a Taliban controlled Afghanistan | 60 Minutes – CBS News Watch CBS News A group of Afghan girls shares first-person accounts of how they escaped the Taliban when Kabul fell in August 2021. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news, live events, and … Read more
SOLA: Daring to educate Afghanistan’s girls | 60 Minutes – CBS News Watch CBS News Since Afghanistan’s fall to the Taliban, girls have been prohibited from attending school beyond sixth grade. SOLA, the School of Leadership Afghanistan, is still teaching its students, though, after a daring evacuation to safety. Be the first to know Get … Read more
There has been speculation for many years about internal rifts within Afghanistan‘s Taliban, but the Islamic extremist group that retook power over the country in 2021 has largely managed to act as a cohesive military and political entity. Its commanders and politicians take their orders from a powerful leadership council based not in the capital … Read more
Relatives and medical staff remove a wounded girl from an ambulance outside a hospital in Kabul, September 30, 2022, following a suicide blast at a learning center in the Dasht-e-Barchi area of Afghanistan’s capital. AFP via Getty Kabul — A suicide bomb attack on a school hall packed with hundreds of students preparing for exams … Read more
A car bomb went off on Friday as worshippers were leaving a Kabul mosque, killing at least seven people and wounding 41, including several children, a Taliban official said.
LOMBARD, Ill. (CBS) — Monday marked the first day of freedom in two and a half years for Mark Frerichs, a suburban man held hostage by the Taliban in Afghanistan. Frerichs was released Monday in a prisoner swap. The Navy veteran had spent more than a decade in Afghanistan as a civilian contractor when he was … Read more