European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has promised financial incentives to European Union member states who take in refugees and asylum seekers from Afghanistan. President Von der Leyen made the announcement after a visit to a reception centre for
UK Islamic Sharia Council (ISC) scholar Khola Hasan told the BBC that “every Muslim” she knows is celebrating the Taliban’s victory in Afghanistan.
International pressure is building on President Joe Biden to change his arbitrary decision to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan by August 31, a move that will effectively close Kabul airport and end repatriation hopes for anyone left behind.
Taliban rival group the Islamic State may launch an attack, using the chaos to strike and increase their notoriety, experts have warned.
During a press conference with Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday, Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said America’s image on the world stage now hangs in the balance following the Afghanistan withdrawal.
On Monday, House Intelligence Committee Chair Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) relayed some sobering news about the situation in Afghanistan when he told reporters that evacuations will likely extend past the August 31 deadline.
While justifying the U.S. incursion into Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks, Egyptian-American political analyst Magdi Khalil criticized the “naive” and “unrealistic” American attempt at “nation-building” and bringing democracy and human rights to the “extremist Islamic wasteland” of Afghanistan.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said commanders “have the authorities they need to pursue opportunities to bring people in,” including by helicopter and that we won’t rule out future helicopter missions to
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said that during communications with the Taliban, “we have been making it clear to them what the credentials look like, who we want to see get through
A majority of Americans oppose the resettlement of more than 50,000 Afghans in the United States, according to a survey by Rasmussen Reports.
President Joe Biden urged private businesses to “step up with vaccine requirements” for employees, forcing them to get vaccinated despite looming hesitancy and personal concerns, all while failing to address the crisis in Afghanistan during a public address on Monday.
An internal government document shows that there have only been 3,376 U.S. citizens airlifted out of Kabul, Afghanistan, as of Saturday, according to a report from Yahoo News.
Staff members at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, have expressed anger and betrayal over the government’s evacuation efforts.
President Joe Biden’s administration has already started increasing the number of Afghans that will be resettled across the United States before American citizens have been evacuated from Afghanistan.
Gauging the legitimacy of Afghanistan’s new Taliban rulers based on their women’s rights policy is “impulsive and irrational,” Hu Xijin, the editor-in-chief of China’s state-run Global Times, argued in an op-ed published Monday.
Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan are being tested for the Chinese coronavirus after they arrive in the United States, Pentagon officials said on Monday.
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) wants the Biden administration to first prioritize evacuating American citizens from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and then focus on protecting the Afghan allies who specifically “protected our troops” and saved American lives during the past 20 years, the governor told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Monday.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) said that the withdrawal from Afghanistan shouldn’t have gone the way it has, and “our intelligence community has been appropriately pessimistic about what was going on in Afghanistan.” Himes
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) said he thinks the White House should stop “chest-pounding” about America being the only country in the world that could do what the U.S. is doing with the Afghanistan
Former Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson said Monday on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” that the chaotic situation on the ground at the Kabul airport was “going to get a lot worse before it gets better.”
Appearing Monday on the Fox News Channel’s The Story, former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Ryan Crocker rejected President Joe Biden’s disputed claim that Al Qaeda is no longer operational in Afghanistan, stating the Islamic terror group “is not gone and they will come back.”
The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) on Friday called on “countries neighboring Afghanistan to keep their borders open in light of the evolving crisis.” One of those neighbors is China, which has taken great delight in President Joe Biden’s bungled withdrawal from Afghanistan, but shows very little interest in harboring refugees.
An aide to Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) tweeted Monday that an American woman was stranded in Kabul, beaten by the Taliban, and unable to get out.
The increasingly partisan, Trump-hating former NSA and CIA director Michael Hayden still serves on the board of NewsGuard, the supposedly “neutral” project that claims to fight untrustworthy and “fake” news.
Members of the Taliban terror group posed for photos and selfies at Paghman Hill Castle, a scenic tourist site located northeast of Kabul, Afghanistan, in a video published by the South China Morning Post on Sunday.
Vice President Kamala Harris is being forced to discuss Afghanistan on her trip to Asia as reporters ask questions about the fall of country to the Taliban where thousands of Americans remain stranded and in peril.
President Joe Biden is ignoring that thousands of Afghans are being processed in the United States, without having finalized their applications for visas, instead touting that processing begins in third safe countries outside of Afghanistan.
Monday on Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) sounded off on the August 31 evacuation date set by President Joe Biden to get Americans out of Afghanistan.
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) joined on Monday 13 other elected Republicans who are demanding Biden administration officials to resign over the deadly Afghan evacuation.
Jen Psaki bristled at Fox News reporter Peter Doocy’s use of the word “stranded” during the daily press briefing to describe the Americans still in Afghanistan.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) stated that the U.S. does not have to accept Taliban control of Kabul and President Joe Biden is “timid and fearful of the Taliban.” Cotton
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) commented on House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) calling the House back to vote on their budget plan by saying Democrats want the problems in Afghanistan
Americans in Afghanistan cannot reach the airport in Kabul before the August 31 deadline set by Joe Biden, Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) said.
President Joe Biden again walked away from White House reporters asking him questions about thousands of Americans still stranded in Afghanistan on Monday.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan lied about what President Biden told the American people in his April and July speeches on Afghanistan.
“China and Russia are keen to recognize Afghanistan’s new government,” the Afghan news outlet Pajhwok reported Monday, referring to the Taliban regime that stormed into power in Kabul on August 15.
Jason Miller said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) tried to get his wife a job at the White House before turning hostile toward former President Donald Trump.
Monday, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) urged President Joe Biden to quit “bowing down” to the Taliban when it comes to evacuating Americans out of Afghanistan.
A female Afghan refugee using the name “Muskan” told India’s News18 on Saturday that Taliban fighters are raping both live women and the dead bodies of their victims.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “At This Hour,” Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL) said that his office has “about 20 to 30 people” that they’re trying to get out of Afghanistan and had a family that was turned away at the gate
