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The Pentagon said it expected more terrorist attack attempts at the Kabul airport, where there are more than 5,000 American troops stationed.

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary has confirmed that two British citizens and the child of a British citizen were murdered in the Kabul airport bombing. 

Thursday was “one of the worst days in American history,” Larry Elder said in reference to the suicide bombing attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The British embassy in Kabul left the information of Afghan staffers and job applicants “scattered on the ground” for the Taliban to find, according to reports.

Kirby confirmed Thursday that “a number” of U.S. service members were killed by at least two bomb attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has said that America, Britain, and Australia, among others, “must be held accountable” for the “suffering” caused by their “military interventions in sovereign states”, particularly Afghanistan.

The UK and U.S. have warned of credible intelligence of an “imminent” attack against Kabul airport, where thousands of people continue to crowd.

Top Republicans announced in a letter to Biden on Wednesday that they plan to investigate his withdrawal from Afghanistan.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) told Breitbart News on Wednesday that the Biden administration essentially advised Americans in Afghanistan to make a dangerous journey to Kabul if they hope to receive the U.S. government’s assistance in evacuating the failed state.

Canadian Minister for Gender Equality Maryam Monsef referred to the Taliban as “our brothers” during a press conference Wednesday.

Swedish climate correspondent Erika Bjerström has claimed that climate change has helped the Taliban take over Afghanistan as rural farmers saw increasing hardships. Bjerström states that climate change has shrunk glaciers in the country which has interfered with crops and livestock

Some Afghans at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan are using American passports that do not belong to them in an attempt to be approved for resettlement in the United States, NBC News reports. 

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) says President Joe Biden’s administration must resettle at least 200,000 Afghans across the United States as part of its withdrawal from Afghanistan. 

President Joe Biden’s administration is planning to bring about 50,000 Afghans to the United States who do not qualify for visas and who have not completed their immigration processing.

While speaking on the United States’ chaotic withdrawal out of Afghanistan, President Joe Biden attacked former President Trump for reducing refugee resettlement to the U.S. after decades of mass migration. 

The Biden administration’s policies towards acceptance of Afghan migrants and refugees may invite a terrorist attack, Monica Crowley warned.

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.

UK Islamic Sharia Council (ISC) scholar Khola Hasan told the BBC that “every Muslim” she knows is celebrating the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan.

Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said Afghans being evacuated from Afghanistan and resettled in the United States by President Joe Biden’s administration are “welcome” in his neighborhood. 

Americans in Afghanistan cannot reach the airport in Kabul before the August 31 deadline set by Joe Biden, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said.

Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said White House officials are “trying to find levity and joking around” Americans remain imperiled in Afghanistan.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby on Monday refused to give the specific number of Americans evacuated from Afghanistan.

Poland is following Hungary, Lithuania, and Greece in building a “wall” to stop a surge of predominantly African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian migrants, thought to have been orchestrated by the Lukashenko regime in neighbouring Belarus.

The British are pleading with the Biden administration to extend the American presence in Afghanistan so that evacuations can be completed, with government ministers saying they cannot finish the job alone.

Anjem Choudary called for the Taliban to impose Sharia in Afghanistan including the stoning adulterers and other extreme forms of ‘justice’.

Tony Blair, the former prime minister who took Britain into Afghanistan alongside George W Bush in 2001, has blamed the West’s botched withdrawal from the country on an “imbecilic” election pledge by Joe Biden.

The borders of Greece will be defended, the Minister of Citizen Protection declared as the country announced the completion of a border wall.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military said Sunday, showing the danger still posed to those trying to flee the Taliban’s takeover of the country.

A German national attempting to escape from Afghanistan has been shot, according to a statement from Germany’s deputy government spokeswoman on Friday.

Jay Collins, who was wounded multiple times in combat in Afghanistan, called the disastrous nature of Biden’s withdrawal “heartbreaking.”

MADRID (AP) — The President of the European Commission has urged the international community to open arms for Afghan refugees.

The Greek government has begun fortifying its northern land border with Turkey and the Greek coast guard is expected to be on alert to deploy into the eastern Aegean ahead of a possible surge of migrants from Afghanistan.

Joe Biden’s veneer of foreign policy expertise has collapsed given his handling of the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, Sean Spicer said.

Following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan and a possible wave of migrants fleeing the country, Swedish prime minister Stefan Lofven has vowed there will be no repeat of the 2015 migrant crisis.

Haunted by a 2015 migration crisis fueled by the Syrian war, European leaders desperately want to avoid another large-scale influx of migrants from Afghanistan.