Britain’s Defence Secretary has defended General Sir Nick Carter, Chief of the Defence Staff, after he claimed that the Taliban are honourable “country boys” who “want an Afghanistan that is inclusive for all”.
State Department spokesman Ned Price hailed the “unprecedented effort he said the Biden administration had undertaken to rescue Americans trapped behind Taliban enemy lines in Afghanistan.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday slammed President Joe Biden for his “lack of leadership” on multiple fronts.
Home Secretary Priti Patel has said that the number of Afghan contractors and interpreters brought over could be double the number predicted, and could be even higher.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has called on the European Union to protect the bloc’s external borders in the wake of the crisis in Afghanistan, as some predict a possible wave of migrants.
Friday on CNN’s “New Day,” White House communications director Kate Bedingfield said the President Joe Biden administration is doing everything it can to evacuate every American out of Afghanistan who wants to get out.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen urged the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to release funds frozen following the jihadist group’s ouster of the government of Afghanistan in an interview with the Chinese government broadcaster CGTN on Friday.
The U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command issued a revised statement on Friday that confirmed one of the first C-17s to carry refugees out of Afghanistan’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on Sunday had over 800 passengers packed into its cargo hold. The flight established a new record for the C-17 aircraft.
President Joe Biden on Friday is reportedly waiving coronavirus test requirements from potentially infected evacuees in Afghanistan, a “hotspot” for the Chinese coronavirus.
Friday, White House communications director Kate Bedingfield was asked how many Americans are still in Afghanistan following the recent withdrawal of troops and the ensuing Taliban takeover.
A senior administration official defended the trip, promising that the vice president would continue to focus on the situation in Afghanistan
President Joe Biden is struggling Friday to evacuate all Americans from Afghanistan before the August 31 deadline. Extending the deadline would require “the Taliban’s acquiescence,” according to the Associated Press (AP).
China and Tajikistan completed a two-day joint military drill in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe on Thursday designed to test the two nations’ anti-terrorism preparedness along their respective land borders with Afghanistan, the state-run China Daily reported.
During an appearance on Mobile, AL radio FM Talk 106.5’s “Midday Mobile,” Rep. Jerry Carl (R-AL) called on people to be aware that the pullout could have an emotional impact on military personnel that served in Afghanistan and urged listeners to be aware of any potential challenges those individuals could be facing.
Thursday on FNC’s “Hannity,” House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) voiced his frustration over the Biden administration’s mishandling of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
Europe’s had enough of Joe, the man whose arrival in the Oval Office they were treating like the second coming of the Messiah.
Taliban teams are going door-to-door across Afghanistan looking for people who either worked for NATO forces or the former national government, a U.N. report outlined Friday.
In a few short months, President Joe Biden has destroyed a military deterrent that took nearly 50 years to rebuild after the end of the Vietnam War.
The president is scheduled to deliver remarks at 1:00 p.m., specifically about the process of evacuating American citizens, SIV applicants, and “vulnerable Afghans,” the White House announced.
On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Fox Business Tonight,” RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel said the media are also responsible for the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan because they allowed President Joe Biden to be “the basement Biden, the bunker Biden
A bipartisan majority of senators sent a letter to President Joe Biden calling on him to “immediately evacuate” Afghan allies who helped the United States while the military was in the country.
A recently resurfaced video showing late Senator John McCain warning colleagues of an “unqualified” and “dangerous” Antony Blinken, who served as deputy national security advisor under President Barack Obama at the time, specifically blasting Blinken’s desire to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) announced Thursday she will draft legislation that will prohibit the United States government from charging Americans for flights to evacuate Afghanistan after President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal.
Ten Republican governors thus far have asked President Joe Biden’s administration to resettle Afghans in their states as the State Department plans to bring thousands to the U.S. for permanent resettlement.
Over a dozen Republican lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to use “all means necessary” to evacuate Americans from Afghanistan as administration officials admit they have no idea how many American citizens are currently stranded in the country.
President Joe Biden’s administration may balloon the number of Afghans set to be resettled across the United States following the withdrawal of U.S. Armed Forces from Afghanistan.
Secretary of State Blinken was wrong about a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan being unlikely after the withdrawal of all foreign forces.
On Thursday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Deputy National Security Adviser Jonathan Finer said that a State Department cable that was first reported on by The Wall Street Journal warning about a rapid collapse of Afghanistan’s government after the withdrawal of U.S.
Al-Qaeda in Yemen congratulated the Taliban terror group on Wednesday for its successful takeover of Afghanistan this week, vowing to continue its own jihad on the Arabian Peninsula.
A 33-year-old woman named Khatera who claimed to have been brutalized by the Taliban said in their eyes, “women are not living, breathing human beings, but merely some meat and flesh to be battered.”
In the course of hectoring the United States for its “bungled and embarrassing withdraw from Afghanistan” on Thursday, China’s state-run Global Times admitted Beijing has a rapacious interest in Afghanistan’s vast rare-earths mineral resources, and snarled it was none of America’s business if China makes deals with the Taliban to get what it wants.
A leaked State Department memo from July shows that Secretary of State Antony Blinken was warned that Kabul would fall into Taliban hands by the August 31 troop withdrawal deadline.
President Joe Biden’s State Department is charging Americans stranded in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to be evacuated from Kabul’s chief airport, according to a report.
The former captain of the Afghanistan Women’s National Soccer Team is warning her fellow players still in Afghanistan to delete all social media, burn uniforms, and discard their soccer gear to avoid retaliation by the radical Islamist Taliban.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Wednesday that it will block Afghanistan from accessing $460 million in emergency monetary reserves that were scheduled to be disbursed next week.
A female Afghan journalist denounced Thursday that, despite assurances to the international community that they would allow women to work, Taliban jihadists are banning women from leaving their homes in Kabul and personally banned her from doing her job.
Italy’s former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has called for dialogue with Afghanistan’s “new regime” following the violent Taliban takeover of the country.
President Joe Biden says his deputies are predicting they will extract up to 65,000 Afghans from Afghanistan.
Pentagon correspondent Jeff Schogol of Task & Purpose posted video on Thursday of the impenetrable “gauntlet” of checkpoints the Taliban has created around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
CNN’s counterterrorism analyst Phil Mudd said Thursday on “Newsroom” that State Department spokesperson Ned Price was “pathetic” for being unable to give the exact numbers of Americans and Visa holders who have been flown out of Afghanistan.
