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On Wednesday’s broadcast of Bloomberg’s “Balance of Power,” Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) said that the Taliban has “been reasonably effective in counterterrorism” and “reasonably responsive to Western needs to have signals and human intelligence about counterterrorism threats.” But they have

China’s top diplomat in Afghanistan effusively praised the Taliban in an interview published Tuesday to mark the end of the U.S. military presence in the country, crediting the terrorist organization with engaging in “practical measures” that have brought the country “positive improvements.”

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends First,” Mark Schmitz, whose son, Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, was killed in the Kabul airport attack in 2021, stated that the withdrawal from Afghanistan could have been done much

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Cheryl Rex, whose son, Lance Corporal Dylan Merola, was killed in the Kabul airport attack in 2021 reacted to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley saying that he

On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Darin Hoover — whose son, Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover Jr., was killed during the Kabul airport attack during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 reacted to reporting by NewsNation that Pentagon documents

During an interview with the “Fox News Rundown” podcast released on Monday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) previewed his meeting with the families of the 13 American soldiers killed in the suicide bombing at the Kabul

The Taliban’s Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice banned women from Band-e-Amir National Park this weekend – one of Afghanistan’s largest and most beautiful parks – on the grounds that some women had worn hijab inappropriately and that “sightseeing is not a must for women.”

Mark Schmitz, whose son, Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, was killed in the Kabul airport attack in 2021, said that he hasn’t gotten answers on whether the Kabul suicide bomber could have been taken out before the attack and accused the Biden administration of covering up evidence on the issue.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Mark Schmitz, whose son, Lance Corporal Jared Schmitz, was killed in the Kabul airport attack in 2021, blasted President Joe Biden for his handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan by

Mike Pence told Breitbart News that he hopes future 2024 GOP presidential primary debates focus more on issues that matter to voters.

An asylum seeker from Afghanistan has been jailed for twice raping a 12-year-old girl with learning disabilities in a London migrant hotel.

Taliban Ministry of Vice and Virtue spokesman Molvi Mohammad Sadiq Akif explained on Thursday that his extremist regime forces women to cover their faces because the “value” of a woman “decreases” when men look at her.

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby responded to charges from Gold Star parent Kelly Barnett that the Biden administration lied about how her son died and a question

On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said that, “barring any decision that could have impacted mission success, there wasn’t much that could have been done to prevent” the

Four men are being held by French authorities on suspicion of involvement in the fatal smuggler boat crossing to England that killed six.

Competition for the lucrative human trafficking trade between ethnically-based gangs operating in northern France is driving rising violence.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Rob Schmitt Tonight,” Darin Hoover — whose son, Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover Jr., was killed during the Kabul airport attack during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 — stated that the Biden administration

Tuesday marked the second anniversary of the fall of Kabul, certainly the worst of President Joe Biden’s unforced errors in foreign policy and arguably among the worst in the history of the American presidency.

Following Taliban mass celebrations marking the two-year anniversary of the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) accused the Biden administration of having caved to “terrorists” and taken no accountability for the ensuing disaster. 

Today marked two years since the beginning of the Biden administration, and nearly two years since the Pentagon promised condolence payments to an Afghan aid worker’s family that it accidentally killed.

The Chinese Foreign Ministry celebrated the two-year anniversary of the Taliban conquering Afghanistan on Tuesday.

Jerry Dunleavy, author of the new book “Kabul: The Untold Story of Biden’s Fiasco and the American Warriors Who Fought to the End,” discusses today’s anniversary of America’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan and the lessons learned.

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul says he is “prepared to put a hold on funding” for Afghanistan due to Taliban theft.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Tuesday that Afghan journalism is “still resisting after two years of Taliban persecution,” but that resistance is sadly muted.

The Taliban “Ministry of the Interior” announced on Monday that it had held meetings with senior executives from the Chinese telecommunications company Huawei to discuss the potential of installing a high-end surveillance system in every province of Afghanistan – potentially granting the jihadist terror outfit unprecedented repressive capabilities.

The Taliban marked two years as the uncontested government of Afghanistan on Tuesday, the anniversary of its takeover of Kabul.

Two years after the fall of Kabul, the Biden administration has failed to shake the Taliban’s iron grip on Afghanistan.

Girls in Afghanistan are bypassing the fanatical Taliban’s cruel ban on education for young women by attending secret schools, some of them run by female teachers — an occupation the Taliban also banned after President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal two years ago.

The Taliban terror leaders running Afghanistan celebrated their expanding international influence on Sunday, claiming to control 16 embassies around the world representing the “Islamic Emirate.”

Swedes abroad and businesses linked to Sweden “should observe increased vigilance and caution,” following protests in Muslim world.

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” he will put a hold on funding to Afghanistan until he gets assurances it is not going to the Taliban.

For the media, Gold Star families are only there to be exploited. If they criticize Democrats, they can be written off and ignored.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” former Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA), who also served as Secretary of the Army in the Obama administration, stated that the families of the American troops killed at the Kabul airport

The office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), a federal watchdog agency, revealed in a report published Tuesday that America “remains the largest donor” to Afghanistan nearly two years after the Taliban’s conquest of the country – and the Taliban is taking credit for much of that aid.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) argued that the families of the 13 American soldiers killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack during the 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan deserve to

Cheryl Rex, the mother of fallen Marine Lance Cpl. Dylan R. Merola, has claimed that President Joe Biden told her that his late son, Beau, came “home in a flag-draped coffin,” an impossibility.