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Jesse Jensen, a former Army Ranger and current Task Force Argo president looking to unseat Rep. Kim Schrier (D-WA) in the midterms, told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Saturday that President Joe Biden has embarrassed America on the international stage.

With 150,000 Britons offering their homes to Ukrainian refugees since a new scheme was launched on Monday, the government is drawing up plans to capitalise on British hospitality by looking to resettle other refugees people’s homes, too.

Boris Johnson has railed against Putin following his rally celebrating 8 years of Russian occupation of Crimea.

The U.N. Security Council (UNSC) voted on Thursday to establish a formal presence in Afghanistan to perform “crucial” humanitarian work, effectively establishing a working relationship with the barbaric Taliban regime, although the resolution was careful not to name the Taliban or expressly recognize it as the legitimate ruling power of Afghanistan.

The United Nations Security Council voted Thursday to expand support and financial aid in Afghanistan – despite it being controlled by the hardline Islamist Taliban terrorist group.

Representative Ilhan Omar (D-MN) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that she hoped the “compassion and generosity” that Ukrainians were offered translated to policy changes to accommodate other refugees from places, including Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq.

President Joe Biden’s Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is giving temporary quasi-amnesty status to nearly 75,000 Afghans in the United States, including those fast-tracked into the U.S. over the last seven months despite vetting failures. 

A number of Afghans allegedly paid bribes to a Commander in the United States Navy Reserves in the hopes of securing Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs) to the U.S. as part of President Joe Biden’s ongoing resettlement operation out of Afghanistan, federal prosecutors allege.

Taliban spokesman Inamullah Samangani issued a Twitter statement on Thursday in which he said Taliban leaders met earlier that day with U.N. representatives to discuss women’s rights in Afghanistan to mark the occasion of International Women’s Day, which took place on Wednesday.

Democrats failed to include in a spending package green cards for tens of thousands of Afghans brought to the United States by President Joe Biden’s administration since mid-August 2021.

A U.S. nonprofit group, comprised of “mostly special operation veterans,” is conducting rescue and humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.

President Joe Biden is planning to continue resettling Afghans in American communities at least through August even as the federal government admits that its vetting protocols failed to properly vet tens of thousands already resettled in the United States.

Fifty-six percent of Americans blame President Biden’s deadly Afghan evacuation for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, which many fear could devolve into the use of nuclear weapons, a Monday I&I/TIPP Poll revealed.

Former prime minister Tony Blair has said in an interview that he thought his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were the “right thing” to do at the time.

In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Thursday in light of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan

The World Bank on Tuesday approved a request by the Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF) to release more than $1 billion in aid to Afghanistan, India’s WION news site reported Wednesday.

During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” State Department Special Representative and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Afghanistan Thomas West reacted to an Afghan interpreter stuck in the country saying he feels he was left behind because he did

Joe Biden’s only mention of Afghanistan or the troops during his speech was his criticism of the “burn pits” outside military bases, which he asserted “put them in a flag-draped coffin.”

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) interrupted President Joe Biden during the State of the Union speech Tuesday night after he began talking about service members in Afghanistan.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) stated that poor decisions in the past by the Biden administration have put us in a bad spot in the crisis in Ukraine and remarked that it

Why can’t we all get along? That was the plea from the Taliban terrorist-controlled Afghanistan government Friday as it expressed concern over the progress of the Russia-Ukraine war, cautioning respect for civilians is vital while urging restraint from all combatants.

President Joe Biden’s Administration is using the little-known, small-scale, emergency parole process to allow many thousands of migrants to enter the country.

Unvetted Afghans allowed entry into the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation out of Afghanistan must be immediately deported, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) says.

During a report aired on Monday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” NPR Correspondent Quil Lawrence reported that the State Department told him that people in Afghanistan who have “urgent” needs for protection, like those who are being hunted by the

Joe Biden signed an executive order earlier this month seizing $7 billion in U.S.-held Afghan central bank reserves, claiming half ($3.5 billion) will be used for Afghan humanitarian aid and the other half ($3.5 billion) will go toward 9/11 victims.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), running for the United States Senate, is calling out “weak-kneed, debt junkie … America Last” Republicans who helped fund President Joe Biden’s limitless Afghan resettlement operation that has brought unvetted Afghans to the U.S. who pose “significant security risks,” according to the Defense Department.

President Joe Biden’s unlimited resettlement of Afghans has brought “dozens of suspected bomb-makers and terrorists” to the United States, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says.

An explosive report conducted by the Department of Defense’s (DOD) Inspector General reveals that President Joe Biden’s administration brought dozens of Afghans to the United States without properly vetting them and many of whom deemed “significant security concerns” have since gone missing. 

The Danish Asylum Commission has ruled that deportations of illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers from Afghanistan can resume.

Authorities in Germany said they are investigating whether one of the drivers involved in a fatal collision this week ran a stop signal.

President Joe Biden, with help from former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, has resettled more than 74,400 Afghans across American communities since mid-August 2021.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) stated that if there is an invasion of Ukraine, Americans will “absolutely” be stuck there, and some will have “the same problem we had in Afghanistan,

The number of people using heroin under Kabul’s notorious Pul-e-Sukhta bridge — long synonymous with hard drug use — has increased since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, people living near the bridge told Deutsche Welle (DW) on Thursday.

The Taliban terrorist group is reportedly holding two foreign journalists and locals working with them in Afghanistan, according to VOA.

During a portion of an interview with NBC aired on Thursday’s edition of “NBC Nightly News,” President Joe Biden dismissed the accounts in an Army report that the administration wasn’t prepared for the withdrawal from Afghanistan but denied he was

Lt. Gen. Erik Kurilla — U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominee to oversee U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia — “is floating the possibility of co-operating with the Taliban” in Afghanistan, the National, a U.A.E.-based newspaper, reported on Tuesday.