Taliban jihadists confirmed the death on Thursday of Sheikh Rahimullah Haqqani, a Taliban cleric known for confronting the terrorist organization on its anti-women’s education stance, at the hands of a suicide bomber reportedly packing explosives in his prosthetic leg.
Deposed Afghan President Mohammed Ashraf Ghani insisted in his first television interview since fleeing the country that he remains its legitimate head of state.
MADRID (AP) – A plane provided by the Spanish government has brought 294 more Afghan refugees via Pakistan to Spain, authorities said Thursday, bringing to 3,900 the number evacuated by Madrid since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year.
During an interview with Hugh Hewitt released on Thursday, Writer for The Atlantic and author Elliot Ackerman said that the “incredible display of weakness” in the handling of the withdrawal from Afghanistan “certainly” weighed into Vladimir Putin’s choice “about whether to act
The Afghan news organization Pajhwok reported Wednesday that drivers throughout Afghanistan are attempting to remain in the good graces of the repressive Taliban by frantically decorating their cars with Quranic verses and affirmations of the Islamic faith.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of CNBC’s “The News with Shepard Smith,” Writer for The Atlantic and author Elliot Ackerman said that a year after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, there still “really is no method to get those Afghans who are still
A Communist Party propaganda organ called the “China Society for Human Rights Studies” published a report on Tuesday accusing America of “barbarity, cruelty and perniciousness” and a particular hostility to “Islamic civilization.”
Taliban “interior minister” Sirajuddin Haqqani, who several reports claim may have owned the home where a U.S. airstrike eliminated al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri a little over a week ago, launched a tour of remote Helmand province this weekend to applaud the “jihadi achievements” of its people.
Republican Brady Duke, a Christian minister and former Navy SEAL sniper, running in Florida’s Seventh Congressional District, said President Joe “Biden’s been wrong on every major foreign policy and national security issue for nearly four decades,” including Afghanistan.
During the “Overtime” segment of Friday’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that in Afghanistan “terrorists are running wild. The Taliban are completely back in charge and they reneged on everything.”
President Joe Biden’s federal agencies knowingly resettled almost 400 Afghans listed as “potential threats to national security” across the United States over the last year, a whistleblower alleges.
A parade of impoverished, repressive socialist regimes lined up on Wednesday and Thursday to condemn Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) for visiting Taiwan — an attempt to court Chinese investment and political support as their economies sink and popular discontent reaches a fever pitch.
Taliban jihadists claimed in an official statement on Thursday that they had “no information” on the very conspicuous presence of now-former al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, Afghanistan, where a U.S. airstrike eliminated him last weekend.
Leaders of Afghanistan’s Taliban terror group allegedly met on Wednesday to discuss “how to respond” to a recent U.S. airstrike that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Kabul, three Taliban sources told Reuters anonymously.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Wednesday on FNC’s “The Story” that terrorists are “welcomed in Afghanistan when reacting to the U.S. drone strike that killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry and Chinese government media commentary scolded the administration of leftist American President Joe Biden on Tuesday for executing a successful airstrike against al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri in Afghanistan, claiming the move violated the “sovereignty” of the reigning Taliban terrorist organization.
Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former Obama administration Defense Secretary Leon Panetta weighed in on former al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s reported killing in Kabul, Afghanistan.
During an interview aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of PBS’ “NJ Spotlight News,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) said that former al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s presence in Kabul “confirms that al-Qaeda’s safe haven is still alive and well in
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby stated that the one-year anniversary of the withdrawal from Afghanistan is “an opportunity to look at the lives we saved” through the “completely
Al-Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahiri reportedly met his end on Sunday morning while enjoying the view from the balcony of his safe house, which was located in an upscale Kabul neighborhood inhabited by top Taliban officials. A U.S. drone blew Zawahiri off the balcony with a precision missile that left the other occupants of his home uninjured.
An exchange of fire between Taliban militants and Iranian border guards on Sunday allegedly caused one death among the Taliban, a southern Afghan police official told Reuters, though Iranian state media reports confirming the border clash made no mention of the alleged casualty.
Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement late Monday “strongly condemning” an American drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, that leftist President Joe Biden announced had killed the leader of al-Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Al-Zawahiri had evidently felt comfortable enough in Kabul, following the chaotic U.S. withdrawal last August, to return to Afghanistan.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Don Lemon Tonight,” Senate Majority Whip Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) said that he “was not one of the critics of the withdrawal from Afghanistan.” And “the President did the right thing. He might have done
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” White House National Security Council Spokesperson John Kirby responded to a question on whether the Taliban knew of al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s presence in Kabul by stating that “some senior leaders of the
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “AC360,” CNN Chief International Correspondent Clarissa Ward reported that an official told CNN that “senior Haqqani Taliban figures were not only aware of” al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s presence in Kabul, but “even took steps in
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Beat,” NBC News Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell reacted to reports that a U.S. drone strike killed al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri by stating that the fact that Zawahiri was reportedly
Top Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement on Friday claiming assessments that the Islamic State is a growing threat in Afghanistan are “incorrect” – a response to concerns following Taliban “foreign minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi confirming that 1,800 Islamic State terrorists had escaped prisons last year.
Rep. Ted Budd (R-NC) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin on Wednesday urging him to release any after-action reports on the botched Afghanistan withdrawal.
At least 27 people committed suicide in Afghanistan between May and July, the Kabul-based Tolo News reported on Tuesday.
Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the international jihadist terror organization Al-Qaeda, “is confirmed to be alive,” a United Nations report revealed on Tuesday.
Several Afghan refugees living in Madagascar staged a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Antananarivo, the African island nation’s capital, on Monday to protest what they described as stalled efforts by the embassy to process their refugee visa applications, Al Jazeera reported.
An Afghan migrant still in Britain despite being convicted of 23 offences including a sexual assault has received a short sentence for trying to slaughter a teen boy like an animal on the floor of a public bus in Runcorn, England.
“The Middle East Biden will be visiting is more stable than the one we inherited,” Sullivan claimed, ignoring Afghanistan.
President Joe Biden’s average approval rating crashed to an all-time personal low on Sunday as it dwindled to an abysmal 37.7 percent, according to RealClearPolitics.
The Taliban terrorist organization, which currently rules Afghanistan, offered condolences to the “people of Japan” and its government on Friday following the assassination of former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo.
An Afghan illegal immigrant was arrested in the French city of Bordeaux last Friday after attempting to stab several people on the street while yelling “Allahu Akbar.” The 22-year-old Afghan national living in France illegally was arrested shortly after 2
China’s Ambassador to the Taliban Wang Yu announced on Tuesday that the Communist Party had invested $37.4 million in the success of the jihadist terrorist government since it took power in August.
Taliban Supreme Leader Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada made a surprise appearance at an ongoing conference of Islamic clerics in Kabul, Afghanistan, declaring Islam “the religion of peace” while declaring that the Taliban “hopes for martyrdom” and celebrates the success of “our jihad.”
A poll released by Gallup on Tuesday found the world “sadder, more worried, and more stressed-out” in 2021 than the year before, pushing its “negative experience index” to a record high of 33 points in the first year of U.S. President Joe Biden’s term.
