Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that there have been incidents of people in Kabul “having some tough encounters” with the Taliban.
Fox News Channel anchor Chris Wallace on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” pressed Secretary of State Antony Blinken over President Joe Biden‘s “flat wrong” statements on Afghanistan.
Seven people were crushed to death Saturday as massed crowds fell against concrete barriers outside Kabul airport as they gathered to try to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban took control, according to Britain’s Ministry of Defence.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that “nobody predicted” the Afghan government would “fall in 11 days.”
Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo got “rolled” Taliban,” which set up the U.S. military withdrawal of Afghanistan to fail.
Representative Liz Cheney (R-WY) said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that former President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s “surrender agreement with the Taliban” led directly to the unfolding situation of the Taliban taking over Afghanistan as the U.S. military withdraws.
Representative Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that those in the Republican Party or right-wing media calling Afghan refugees as invaders are either “evil” or charlatans.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that he did not believe that al Qaeda in Afghanistan, represented a threat to the United States homeland even though the September 11 terror attacks were planned by al Qaeda in Afghanistan.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the Biden administration still did not know the precise number of Americans waiting to be evacuated from Afghanistan.
The Pentagon on Sunday ordered a string of American commercial airlines to join its chaotic evacuation of tens of thousands of Afghans and foreigners fleeing Kabul after its fall to Taliban terrorists.
French President Emmanuel Macron lectured President Joe Biden on the “moral responsibility” their two nations owed to Afghanistan during a call with the president on Thursday.
Tony Blair, the former prime minister who took Britain into Afghanistan alongside George W Bush in 2001, has blamed the West’s botched withdrawal from the country on an “imbecilic” election pledge by Joe Biden.
President Joe Biden will use an address to the nation on Sunday afternoon to provide updates on the administration’s evacuation efforts in Afghanistan as scenes of chaos and despair at Kabul airport continue to define his response to the crisis.
Vice President Kamala Harris touched down in Singapore early Sunday morning to begin her tour of Asia, with traveling officials saying she will offer reassurances of Washington’s commitment to the region against a backdrop of the chaotic U.S. retreat from Afghanistan and Taliban takeover.
The borders of Greece will be defended, the Minister of Citizen Protection declared as the country announced the completion of a border wall.
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military said Sunday, showing the danger still posed to those trying to flee the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
A German national attempting to escape from Afghanistan has been shot, according to a statement from Germany’s deputy government spokeswoman on Friday.
Jay Collins, who was wounded multiple times in combat in Afghanistan, called the disastrous nature of Biden’s withdrawal “heartbreaking.”
A Central Command spokesman assured the military was taking “all necessary actions” to secure Americans’ safe movement to the airport.
President Joe Biden could activate the Civil Reserve Air Fleet (CRAF). United States airline companies have been put on alert since Friday that the CRAF is a possibility, according to multiple reports.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, the New York Democrat, was caught on camera by a New York mayor’s press secretary, dancing around outside. At the same time, thousands of Americans are trapped in Afghanistan with Afghan allies.
Army National Guard veteran Alek Skarlatos believes the Biden administration failed the American citizens and Afghan allies now stuck in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan by mishandling the U.S. military’s exit from Bagram Airfield.
Derrick Van Orden, a former Navy SEAL and Republican running for an open seat in Wisconsin, told Breitbart News Saturday this weekend that every Secretary and Military Head that had something to do with the botched Afghanistan withdrawal should tender their resignation.
Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal in Afghanistan during his rally Saturday in Cullman, Alabama.
China is “the real winner” of the foreign policy “disaster” currently unfolding in Afghanistan after the Taliban terror group seized full control of the country earlier this week, China’s state-run Global Times argued on Thursday.
Tamika Hamilton, a military sergeant and California Republican looking to unseat Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) in the midterms, told Breitbart News Saturday this weekend that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was “catastrophic.”
Secretary of State Blinken admitted an internal cable from about two dozen diplomats warned of the potential fall of Kabul to the Taliban.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday encouraged world leaders to help foment the Taliban’s “early political transition” in Afghanistan instead of “exerting excessive pressure” on the terror group, which seized control of the Afghan national capital, Kabul, this week.
Shawn Collins, who served in the Navy JAG Corps and in Afghanistan, and is a Republican looking to unseat Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA) in the midterms, told Breitbart News Saturday there is a complete failure in leadership right now by the Commander-in-Chief, President Joe Biden, due to his botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) told Breitbart News Saturday that President Joe Biden must resign following his major foreign policy failure in Afghanistan as thousands of Americans remain stranded, blasting his “arrogant callousness” and false assertions that Americans are able to access the airport in Kabul as the condition in the area, under Taliban rule, worsens.
An elite Taliban unit released propaganda images this week, including one mocking the iconic World War Two photo of U.S. Marines raising the flag on Iwo Jima. In the propaganda image, the Taliban fighters are shown raising their flag while wearing what appears to be U.S. and U.S. ally-made military gear.
On Saturday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports,” House Armed Services Committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-WA) said that completing the evacuation of Afghanistan will clearly extend beyond the August 31 deadline and “We’re going to have to go outside of the
Protesters gathered for a “Free Afghanistan” event in Washington, DC, on Saturday amid growing concern for American citizens and Afghan refugees left in the country after Taliban forces took control of it.
Activist and former Afghan judge Najla Ayoubi alleged that the Taliban burned a woman for her alleged bad cooking.
Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt (R), who has launched a Senate bid in Nevada challenging Democrat Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), told Breitbart News Saturday that the situation in Afghanistan serves as a snapshot of what a “leftist-led United States looks like” and expressed hope it offers the American people a stark contrast showing “just what the leftist idea of American leadership on the globe looks like in action.”
President Joe Biden’s administration has started its fast-tracking of Afghans into the United States as reports indicate arrivals have begun in Virginia, Missouri, South Carolina, and Connecticut.
American citizens are being physically harmed by the Taliban behind enemy lines in Kabul, Afghanistan, the Pentagon confirmed Saturday.
President Joe Biden has only saved a total of 2,500 Americans behind enemy lines in Afghanistan since the country’s collapse. Media reports suggest 7,500 to 40,000 Americans remain.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” Rep. Mike Garcia (R-CA) stated that the situation in Afghanistan is “a massive hostage crisis” and “a hot war,” and called for the U.S. to use troops and air assets
On Friday’s “Mark Levin Show,” Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) said the Taliban has already interrupted U.S. operations in Afghanistan by obstructing access to the Kabul airport, and despite President Joe Biden’s vow that interruptions of American operations would be responded
