Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani issued a decree on Monday to release 400 “hardcore” Taliban prisoners as a condition to initiate peace talks with the jihadi terror group, Reuters reported.
Axios reported on Sunday that Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) has become a “GOP Trump critic” ahead of the 2020 elections.
A Swedish Foreign Ministry employee faces prison after being arrested for granting over 100 visas on fraudulent grounds to migrants from Afghanistan.
During an interview broadcast on Monday’s edition of “Axios on HBO,” President Trump stated that the United States will decrease its troop levels in Afghanistan down to 4,000 troops “very soon.” And stated that on Election Day, the United States
Afghan security forces ended a nearly 20-hour-long attack on a prison and nearby shopping mall in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, killing ten assailants, Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday he did not speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin about intelligence claiming Russia was offering bounties to the Taliban for American soldiers killed in Afghanistan.
India welcomed 11 members of Afghanistan’s Sikh and Hindu minority community on Sunday, including one Sikh “recently released from captivity after a month of torture,” the Times of India (TOI) reported Monday.
A teenage Afghan girl gunned down three Taliban jihadists with an AK-47 after they killed her parents over their support for the government.
An Afghan migrant and his two sons have been arrested following an incident on a public transit bus that saw a 21-year-old man stabbed to death.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) said on Thursday that continuing the war in Afghanistan is “not worth one more Gold Star family.”
Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Matt Gaetz (R-FL) introduced an amendment to the NDAA on Tuesday that would end America’s war in Afghanistan and provide for the orderly withdrawal of troops therefrom.
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) told Breitbart News Tonight that the Republican and Democrat proposal to tie President Donald Trump’s hands from withdrawing from Afghanistan is “egregious” and “exactly the opposite of what we should do.”
On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” former Secretary of State Gen. Colin Powell criticized the “almost hysterical” media coverage of intelligence reports that Russia may have placed bounties on U.S. soldiers and stated that military commanders “did not
Defense Secretary Mark Esper announced Thursday he has ordered an investigation into intelligence leaks to the media.
Reps. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) wrote a letter to President Donald Trump, urging him to withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan “immediately.”
Fazal Hadi Muslimyar, the head of the Afghan Senate, said during a parliamentary address on Tuesday that many of the Taliban prisoners freed as part of the “peace process” have already returned to the battlefield.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” Sen. Doug Jones (D-AL) stated that the intelligence reports on Russia putting bounties on U.S. soldiers “are a little bit mixed. We’re not sure if all the intelligence can agree,” and President Trump should be “getting answers and letting the American people know that he is getting answers and he will take the appropriate action, should he find that it was absolutely true.”
An Afghan migrant has died after being stabbed in a brawl in central Stockholm. Another two Afghans were knifed as well.
Rep. Liz Cheney co-sponsored an amendment with Rep. Jason Crow to restrict Donald Trump’s ability to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.
During a press conference on Thursday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that she did not know about intelligence on potential Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers, and “it was of a consequential level that the intelligence community should have brought it to us in that way.”
We need to ask who benefits from an intelligence official releasing classified information alleging that the Russians are paying bounties for the Taliban to kill American soldiers.
The Trump administration recently appointed Simone Ledeen as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East, the first woman in the position for at least 10 years.
Rep. Adam Schiff’s aides first learned of allegations that a Russian military intelligence unit offered bounties for American troops in February.
Republicans are backing Trump against allegations a Russian intelligence unit offered bounties to the Taliban for troops in Afghanistan.
McEnany slammed the leak that alleged a Russian military intelligence unit had offered bounties on American forces as “irresponsible.”
Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) told Breitbart News Tonight that the New York Times story alleging that a Russian military spy unit paying Taliban-linked militants to kill Americans is the swamp’s way of fighting back against President Donald Trump’s America First agenda, including putting an end to America’s longest war.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Cuomo Primetime,” Rep. Chris Stewart (R-UT), who was briefed on the intelligence about Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers, stated that the intelligence “isn’t something that just popped up in the last few weeks or the last
The Pentagon said in a statement late Tuesday evening that it had no corroborating evidence that Russian operatives offered bounties to the Taliban for American soldiers stationed in Afghanistan.
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), who was briefed on the intelligence about Russian bounties on U.S. soldiers, said he understands that President Trump “was not briefed” about the matter, but the intelligence might have
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” House Armed Services Committee member Michael Waltz (R-FL) stated that if Russia has put bounties on American troops, Russia should pay, and it’s possible to “get to the bottom of
Media outlets have pounced on old, controversial tweets from Tata. However, these same outlets have ignored controversial remarks from Biden.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan outraged the nation’s political opposition and baffled global observers on Thursday with an impassioned speech in the nation’s parliament in which he referred to late al-Qaeda boss Osama bin Laden as a “martyr.”
Sean Parnell — a retired Army Ranger captain who served in the “Outlaw Platoon” in Afghanistan and is running for the 17th congressional district in Western Pennsylvania — told Breitbart News he aims to actually represent the district, unlike Democrat Conor Lamb who has done Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bidding in Congress.
Trump will be announcing an executive order to sanction those seeking to investigate Americans under the International Criminal Court.
The Supreme leader of Afghan terror group the Taliban may have recently died from the coronavirus, Afghanistan’s Khaama Press reported on Tuesday, citing information from a report by the American magazine Foreign Policy.
The Afghan government will release 900 Taliban terrorists by the end of Tuesday, sources in Afghanistan’s National Security Council told Khaama Press on Tuesday.
Kent has taken on a new role as coalition board member of Military Families for Trump to get President Donald Trump re-elected.
Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani on Sunday issued a statement that he will respond to a ceasefire “gesture of goodwill” from the Taliban by expediting the release of 2,000 Taliban prisoners.
An Afghan woman was detained by Turkish authorities after attempting to enter Europe using the passport of a well-known pro-migration activist. She claimed her passport was stolen during a trip to Iran.
In his address for the Eid al-Fitr holiday, Mullah Hibatullah Akhundzada – supreme leader of the Taliban as well as one of its top clerics – promised equal rights for men and women under fundamentalist Taliban rule after the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan. He also offered a general amnesty to the Taliban’s enemies, provided they “end their opposition” to the “establishment of an Islamic government.”
