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A suspected suicide bombing killed at least 46 people and injured over 150 at an Islamist political event near the Afghan border in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, on Sunday, believed to have been attended by hundreds of people.

Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko said on Thursday his agency has uncovered “some really horrific information about the problems with the U.N. operations in Afghanistan.”

Muslim-majority nations expressed outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. Some prepared for street demonstrations.

Dozens of women made a rare show of defiance against the brutal Taliban regime in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Wednesday, marching against the ban on beauty salons issued early this month by the extremist government.

Tobias Ellwood hailed the accomplishments of the Taliban regime in restoring order to Afghanistan after Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal.

Anas Haqqani, a senior Taliban official and member of the notorious Haqqani Network jihadist organization, endorsed Twitter over its nascent Facebook rival Threads on Monday, celebrating pro-China owner Elon Musk for allegedly protecting “freedom of speech.”

Peruvian officials on Sunday announced they had intercepted 23 Afghans in the custody of migrant traffickers operating along the border with Brazil. The migrants included four children, one of them a two-month-old baby.

Representative Barbara Lee (D-CA) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the United States risked losing its moral leadership by giving Ukraine cluster bombs.

The Taliban regime on Monday ordered hundreds of beauty salons across the country to close by the end of July, marking the Islamist regime’s latest offense against the rights and dignity of women in Afghanistan.

The Biden administration released a State Department review of its botched Afghanistan withdrawal the Friday before the July Fourth holiday weekend, in what Republicans say was an attempt to bury its release.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby responded to claims in a State Department report that there was a failure to plan for worst-case scenarios during the planning of

On Friday’s “CNN News Central,” CNN National Security Correspondent Kylie Atwood said the State Department waited a year to release its report on the withdrawal from Afghanistan on the Friday before the July 4 holiday weekend because the State Department

President Joe Biden on Friday insisted he made no mistakes with the withdrawal from Afghanistan, which left 13 American troops dead and more injured. He made his comments following the State Department’s release of an “after action review” of the bungled exit.

An experienced Army doctor with two Afghanistan tours under his belt claism to have been forced out after saying “men cannot be women”. 

According to U.N. investigators, at least three high-ranking officials in the Taliban regime have strong links to al-Qaeda.

The Taliban’s “acting” central bank governor, Mullah Hidayatullah Badri, met with Chinese Ambassador Wang Yu on Thursday in Kabul to discuss “the economy, banking relations, business, and some related topics.”

Despite widespread vetting failures, President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is offering parole extensions to tens of thousands of Afghan nationals who were resettled across the United States in 2021 and 2022. 

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) called for the dissent cable on the withdrawal from Afghanistan to be made public and argued that the document doesn’t need

Barack Obama called for more gun control and got significant pushback on Twitter on Friday, which was National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

A top Taliban jihadist warned his group would “conquer Iran” if given approval in a video that surfaced this weekend after a deadly shootout between Iranian border guards and the Afghan terrorist group.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) stated that the dissent cable sent by U.S. diplomats in 2021  before the withdrawal from Afghanistan that he was finally able to view after

Chinese state media are touting the China-Central Asia Summit, held on Thursday and Friday in the historic northwestern Chinese city of Xian, as a counter to the Group of Seven (G7) gather of democracies in Japan this weekend.

White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby criticized comparisons between the situation on the border and the withdrawal from Afghanistan and stated that “it’s not chaos down there at the border, at least not right now.”

On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” CNN hosts Brianna Keilar and Jake Tapper stated that the Biden State Department is violating basic principles of oversight by refusing to release the diplomatic dissent cable on the withdrawal from Afghanistan and

Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) warned Secretary of State Antony Blinken that he would move to hold Blinken in contempt of Congress should he not satisfy subpoena requests related to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, according to a letter McCaul wrote to Blinken and published Monday.

The Taliban terrorist organization, which currently functions as the uncontested government of Afghanistan, agreed this weekend to join communist China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher responded to accusations that President Joe Biden’s handling of Afghanistan emboldened Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine by stating that “it wasn’t just all Biden” because prior administration’s appeased Russia, including

During an interview with the “Fox News Rundown” podcast released on Wednesday, Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) stated that he isn’t surprised that Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction John Sopko testified that he cannot guarantee American taxpayer money isn’t going to

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stated that the Taliban killing the ISIS-K mastermind of the 2021 Kabul airport attack doesn’t show the limits of American capabilities in Afghanistan, but

White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby claimed in a statement on Tuesday that Taliban jihadists had killed a senior Islamic State official described as the “mastermind” of the 2021 Kabul airport bombing.

On Tuesday’s edition of NBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” NBC News Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell reacted to the announcement by U.S. officials that the Taliban killed the mastermind of the ISIS-K suicide

Susan Rice announced on Monday she was leaving the White House, amid another unfolding crisis overseas where Americans were left stranded in a war zone.

Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley released an advertisement hammering President Joe Biden on Monday hours after he announced his reelection campaign.

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sam Aronson, a State Department official during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, stated that he arrived to “complete chaos” where “rules on the ground didn’t necessarily match the reality” and he had to learn

Terrorists in Afghanistan apparently did not “get the memo” from President Joe Biden that the war against terror is “over,” according to Rep. Mike Waltz.

President Joe Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan stated Monday that U.S. embassy evacuations happen “from time to time” in the wake of the second evacuation in Sudan.