A member of the Taliban Badri 313 military unit walks amid debris of the destroyed CIA base. AFP via Getty Images “We were there for nine or 10 days,” Hasnain said.

CIA Director William J. Burns met face-to-face with the top Taliban leader in Kabul on Monday, according to two US officials, as the US continues airlifting American citizens and its Afghan allies ...

The Zero Units served alongside Americans, helping them fight, then evacuate. Now, they face uncertainty as they begin their ...

In a surprise move, CIA Director William Burns traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, and met the Taliban leader. This is the highest level meeting between the U.S. and the Taliban since the group took over.

January 21, 2025 was a day the Corbett family thought they’d spend separated. But it was the day Ryan Corbett, who had been ...

CIA Director William Burns reportedly held a secret meeting in Afghanistan Monday with the Taliban’s de facto leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar — the highest-level diplomatic encounter since the ...

CIA Director William Burns held a secret meeting with the de factor leader of the Taliban on Monday, as President Joe Biden faces pressure to extend his Afghan evacuation deadline.

Peter Bergen writes, “(Douglas) London says the Afghan debacle wasn’t strictly an intelligence failure, but a policy failure that started with the withdrawal agreement with the Taliban in ...

As the U.S. and allied Western forces frantically try to evacuate citizens and local allies from Afghanistan, CIA Director William Burns was in Kabul Monday for secret meetings with the Taliban ...

CIA Director William J. Burns held a secret meeting Monday in Kabul with the Taliban’s de facto leader, Abdul Ghani Baradar, in the highest-level face-to-face encounter between the Taliban and ...

CIA Director William Burns said Friday that Taliban forces are likely "in the strongest military position that they've been in since 2001," as U.S. troops withdraw from Afghanistan.

U.S. races to evacuate thousands from Kabul as Afghans hold anti-Taliban protests 09:49. Washington — Multiple U.S. intelligence assessments issued this spring and summer warned that Afghanistan ...