President Joe Biden claimed that his predecessor and rival Donald Trump “didn’t do anything” to address the two-decade-old Afghan War while in office during Thursday night’s presidential debate.
Marine Tyler Justin Vargas-Andrews broke down in tears during a hearing as he recalled the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.
Military leaders claimed that the August 26, 2021, attack in Afghanistan that killed 13 American service members at the Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate was “not preventable.” However, sources who were on the ground, as well as a recently released Army investigative report, say that President Joe Biden’s order to evacuate as many people as possible contributed to the attack.
The Taliban quietly accepted an offer of 1 million doses of Chinese coronavirus vaccines in addition to nearly half a billion dollars in humanitarian aid from America on Wednesday, letting a deputy minister respond to the offer while touting similar support on a grander scale from China.
What some U.S. forces thought would be 96 hours on the ground in Afghanistan evacuating U.S. embassy staff turned into 16 days.
John Ondrasik credited Andrew Breitbart as a part of his inspiration to write and release his latest song, “Blood on My Hands.”
Blinken testifies on the botched Afghanistan withdrawal on Monday at 2 p.m. ET in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
The EU is set to establish a diplomatic presence in Kabul amid concerns over the influence of Communist China and Russia in Afghanistan.
The Pineapple Express is moving to the next phase of their operations — getting out hundreds of Americans left behind in Afghanistan.
Tory MP Tom Tugendhat said that the Taliban’s promises of women’s rights are just “a slick PR operation masking a vicious death cult.”
The Pentagon said it is possible that the military will coordinate with the Taliban on future airstrikes against the Islamic State in Afghanistan.
A leaked transcript and audio recording of a call between President Joe Biden and then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani two weeks before Kabul fell showed that as the Afghan president warned of a Taliban “invasion,” Biden pressed him to change the “perception.”
The United Kingdom will not follow America into another war so long as President Joe Biden is in power, Brexit leader Nigel Farage has said.
Former President Donald Trump, nearly four years ago, warned against the exact consequences of a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheller on Tuesday announced that he has submitted his resignation from the Marine Corps.
Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said that President Biden is ultimately responsible for the deadly terror attack in Kabul.
Sasse was one of seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict former President Donald Trump of inciting an insurrection on January 6.
Scheller on Sunday announced in a video that he was resigning his commission as a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps.
Boris Johnson’s government has been criticised for leaving behind British citizens, as the last evacuation flights left Kabul.
LONDON (AP) – A former British Royal Marine who waged a high-profile campaign to leave Afghanistan with almost 200 rescued dogs and cats has flown to safety — with the animals, but without his charity’s Afghan staff, who were left behind in Kabul.
Zinke said Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal now puts the hundreds of special operations forces around the world at risk.
The Pentagon said as of August 14, about 117,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul, including 5,400 Americans.
The Pentagon said it expected more terrorist attack attempts at the Kabul airport, where there are more than 5,000 American troops stationed.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby confirmed Friday that “thousands” of Islamic State prisoners were freed after the United States handed over bases to the Afghan government.
The General said he did not know if the Taliban let the bombers through to the Kabul airport and conduct attacks that killed U.S. service members.
Three Marines were “seriously wounded” in one of the bombings Thursday morning in Afghanistan at the Kabul airport, according to a report.
Kirby confirmed an explosion outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, where there are U.S. troops manning the perimeter.
The U.S. military is continuing to draw down its forces from Afghanistan ahead of the August 31 deadline, according to defense officials.
Thousands of American citizens in Afghanistan amount to a “hostage crisis,” Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) said on Tuesday’s Breitbart News Daily.
France admitted that it has repatriated an Afghani man despite being connected to the Taliban, with similar security failures seen in the UK.
Anjem Choudary called for the Taliban to impose Sharia in Afghanistan including the stoning adulterers and other extreme forms of ‘justice’.
As recriminations fly among Biden administration officials over who bungled the Afghanistan withdrawal, some are questioning the responsibility of Russ Travers, who was fired by the Trump administration as acting head of the National Counterterrorism Center and subsequently rehired by President Joe Biden to lead the interagency process on the evacuation operation.
Jay Collins, who was wounded multiple times in combat in Afghanistan, called the disastrous nature of Biden’s withdrawal “heartbreaking.”
A Central Command spokesman assured the military was taking “all necessary actions” to secure Americans’ safe movement to the airport.
The Pentagon contradicted President Joe Biden multiple times Friday, immediately after he delivered remarks on the bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan this week.
Labour MP Richard Burgon said the UK should ship reparations to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, echoing demands from Stop the War Coalition.
House Armed Services Committee Republicans fired off a letter to President Joe Biden asking him what his plan is for Afghanistan.
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby estimated between 5,000 and 10,000 Americans are stuck near Kabul after the rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, in an interview on CNN on Tuesday morning.
The far-left Stop the War Coalition has called for the British taxpayer to pay “reparations” to the Taliban to “rebuild Afghanistan”.
Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) rebuked President Joe Biden for “assigning blame to everyone but himself,” during his Monday address on the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
