The release of Viktor Bout, a Russian warlord known as the “Merchant of Death” for his prolific arms dealing, on Thursday is the latest in a string of similar liberations under President Joe Biden that have seen violent criminals freed in exchange for unjustly imprisoned Americans abroad.
The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the year-end American military funding bill, authorizes probes into President Joe Biden’s Afghan resettlement operation that allegedly brought hundreds, potentially thousands, of Afghans to the United States who were not fully vetted and are considered terrorist threats.
The government of Japan announced on Monday that it had prepared a humanitarian aid project for Afghanistan worth $106.7 million “implemented by the U.N. agencies,” suggesting an attempt to keep the money out of Taliban hands.
The German government has announced plans to boost the number of migrants arriving in the country in the hopes of bolstering its ageing workforce.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby said he doesn’t think the handling of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was a gift for China’s propaganda machine, and,
On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby maintained that the Biden administration has said that al-Qaeda would return to Afghanistan after the U.S. withdrew its forces from
On Monday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) said he would support an investigation of the withdrawal from Afghanistan that House Republicans have pledged to hold and it’s important to do so “because so many Americans have forgotten
Rep. Steve Scalise said Republicans will investigate “the origins of COVID,” “Afghanistan withdrawal,” and Hunter Biden’s “laptop scandal.”
The Biden administration’s $38 billion request for Ukraine would bring the 2022 total to twice as much spent on roads and bridges.
Former President Donald Trump announced his third campaign for the White House here Tuesday night at his luxurious seaside resort Mar-a-Lago in front of thousands of fans and hundreds of media outlets.
In an interview with independent journalist Tera Dahl, Afghan resistance leader Ahmad Massoud denounced the Taliban as no less extreme than the Islamic State and faulted both Western nations and the ousted government of Afghanistan for errors that allowed the Taliban to return to power.
The EU´s border agency said the number of illegal migrants spiked to more than 275,000 in the January through October period this year.
The Taliban regime in Afghanistan issued an edict on Friday banning women from amusement parks and gymnasiums, purportedly because they were not obeying the extremist government’s orders to wear hijabs and remain segregated from men in public areas.
Derrick Van Orden said the final moment of a military comrade’s life was both the best and worst experience of his military service.
State Sen. Tom Barrett (R-MI), the Republican nominee to represent Michigan’s 8th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives, linked Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-WY) endorsement of his opponent Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) to what he said was a shared obsession with foreign military operations held by both Cheney and Slotkin.
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) revealed in a report on Tuesday that prices in Afghanistan for opium products “soared” in the past year and 32 percent more territory nationwide has been dedicated to cultivating the narcotic – statistics that reveal a booming industry under Taliban rule.
Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) said Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) promised him an investigation of the Biden administration’s “withdrawal” from Afghanistan.
The Taliban was notoriously brutal in purging female police officers when it overthrew the elected government of Afghanistan in August 2021.
A Swedish court has found an Afghan migrant guilty of raping a woman and pushing her down a mine shaft, sentencing the 41-year-old to “life” for rape and attempted murder.
The United Nations special rapporteur for human rights in Afghanistan, Richard Bennett, met with senior Taliban leaders on Tuesday to discuss the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in the country, legitimizing the Taliban with treatment as a formal state power.
The Taliban terrorist organization, operating as the de facto government of Afghanistan, signed a major agreement with Russia last week that would significantly reduce pressure on the country’s fuel supply — but at an unclear price, the American outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) noted on Wednesday.
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is announcing Tuesday legislation that would add Afghanistan to the U.S. list of State Sponsors of Terrorism, a little more than a year after the Taliban, a jihadist terrorist organization, took control of the country.
Crimes committed against American citizens at the hands of Afghans ultimately fall on President Joe Biden after reports allege his administration failed to properly vet thousands, Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-NM) says.
On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” Iranian journalist and activist Masih Alinejad stated that she doesn’t have “any hope in the Biden administration” or the Western world after “They abandoned my sisters in Afghanistan.” Alinejad stated, “Across the world,
An Afghan national, brought to the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation over the last year, has been charged with violently attacking and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Democrats have slipped $3 billion into a funding bill for tens of thousands of Afghans brought to the United States by President Joe Biden over the last year as calls mount from lawmakers to investigate the administration’s reported vetting failures.
Congressional appropriators released a stop-gap bill Monday night that would fund the government through mid-December, specifically earmarking $12.3 billion in aid for Ukraine and $3 billion for Afghan resettlement programs.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi lectured the United Nations on Saturday to oppose the use of human rights as a “weapon to achieve political ends” and proclaimed Taliban-ruled Afghanistan as transitioning “from chaos to order.”
Former President Donald Trump revealed in an interview with Fox News’s Sean Hannity that he threatened to “obliterate” Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar during intense talks while he was president and followed up that conversation by sending the Taliban leader a live satellite photo of his house.
During an interview with Bloomberg recorded on September 7 and aired on Wednesday’s edition of “The David Rubenstein Show, Peer to Peer Conversations,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said “there will be time, as I end up looking back and
The Taliban jihadist terror organization confirmed the arrival in Afghanistan on Monday of convicted heroin “kingpin” Bashir Noorzai, a terrorist-affiliated warlord the administration of leftist President Joe Biden freed in exchange for American engineer Mark Frerichs.
Reflecting on the country’s last 15 presidencies, from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Joe Biden, conservative radio legend Michael Savage argued that Biden is
British media organizations confirmed on Wednesday that Venezuela would not receive a formal invite to the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, shutting out socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro and the rightful president of the country, Juan Guaidó.
Oscar-winning Citizenfour filmmaker Laura Poitras has slammed the Toronto and Venice film festivals for hosting Hillary Clinton on their red carpets, saying festival organizers are complicit in whitewashing Hillary’s political record of war mongering.
The Taliban terrorist organization launched a public relations campaign on Monday refuting extensively documented allegations of human rights abuses against women and the imposition of “gender apartheid” under its rule in Afghanistan – claiming women enjoy equal rights while women and girls organize mounting protests demanding to be allowed to go to school.
On Monday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Brian Kilmeade Show,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) said that because of how easy it is to enter the U.S. through the southern border, he tells people who are trying to get out of
China’s Global Times government propaganda outlet marked the 21st anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on America with a column on Sunday condemning America for allegedly causing “tremendous suffering” globally in the aftermath of the attacks.
A 30-year-old Afghan asylum seeker was shot dead in the city of Ansbach, Germany on Thursday after stabbing random people at a railway station, reportedly while yelling “Allahu Akbar!”
During an interview with PBS’ “Firing Line” released on Friday, Writer for The Atlantic and author Elliot Ackerman pushed back against claims that the Biden administration had no choice but to follow former President Donald Trump’s Afghanistan policies and pointed out
During an interview with PBS’ “Firing Line” released on Friday, Writer for The Atlantic and author Elliot Ackerman said that “there was no plan in place for a large-scale evacuation” of our allies from Afghanistan and the blame for this “does
