Afghanistan 25 years after U.S. withdrawal: life under Taliban rule

CBS News correspondent Imtiaz Tyab reported from Kabul on September 12, 2026, documenting life in Afghanistan 25 years after the September 11, 2001 attacks and the nearly two-decade U.S. military campaign that followed. The report examined the legacy of America's longest war and current conditions under Taliban governance.

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Life in rural Afghanistan, 25 years after 9/11

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Most of the fighting during the nearly 20-year war between the U.S. and the Taliban that followed the 9/11 terrorist attacks was in rural Afghanistan. CBS News senior foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab traveled to those provinces to see what life is like there now.