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On Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) defended the strike on Qasem Soleimani and called for Congress to “revisit” the AUMFs in Iraq and Afghanistan and vote on a new one. Roy said,

People from around the country who oppose war with Iran will speak out Thursday evening in a series of protests beginning around 5 p.m. local time.

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk sparred with Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Thursday’s episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, where he told Crenshaw that he believes “it’s long past time to end the war in Afghanistan,” and asked, “do you think we should ever end the current war in Afghanistan?” to which the congressman responded, “No.”

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday President Donald Trump and his administration’s Iran strategy has spared American lives.

An anonymous Taliban official told the Associated Press on Monday that the terrorist group had agreed to a “peace deal” that would result in the release of 5,000 jihadists. The next day, an official Taliban spokesman denied that they were close to signing any deal with the government of Afghanistan.

Afghanistan politician Razaq Ahmadzai, a close ally of President Ashraf Ghani, has been accused of actively collecting pension payments from the Swedish government for his mother who died in 2017. According to the accusations, the Afghan’s mother was not reported to the

The remains of an American soldier who was killed in Afghanistan earlier this week were transported home to the U.S. on Christmas morning.

An American service member was killed in action in Afghanistan on Sunday, just two days before Christmas, the Pentagon announced.

Pentagon leaders pushed back against the idea that the department’s leaders have not been transparent on progress in the Afghanistan War.

A 27-year-old migrant man was given a short five-year term by a Finnish court for sex attacks against six victims, including an underage girl.

The Afghanistan military is getting more than three times the American taxpayer funding than the construction of a wall on the United States-Mexico border, thanks to a Republican-Democrat spending package.

In a recent podcast interview, Buttigieg said that he would not set a timeline for withdrawal, insisting that it was not responsible.

The U.S. goal of reinventing Afghanistan into a Western-style centralized democracy and a free-market economy from a tribal society that was unsuited for either by throwing billions of American-taxpayer dollars was doomed to fail, the Washington Post revealed Monday in a multi-series investigation.

The New York Police Department’s (NYPD) K9 units gathered supplies Wednesday for military dog units deployed to the Middle East during Christmas. 

Newsweek recently demoted an editor — news which follows the firing of a reporter behind a highly inaccurate story which stated that President Trump was “tweeting” and “golfing” on Thanksgiving when he was actually en route to Afghanistan to surprise U.S. troops.

Newsweek has fired the journalist who was responsible for the false story that President Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving “tweeting” and “golfing,” when in fact the president was secretly traveling to Afghanistan to surprise U.S. troops for the holiday.

On Friday’s “MSNBC Live,” Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL) stated that President Trump’s statement about re-opening peace talks with the Taliban is “a ploy” by the president and “I just don’t trust why he does the things that he does.” Kelly

A group of 62 Islamic State fighters, including 30 Pakistanis and two Turkish nationals, surrendered to Afghan military forces in the Nangarhar area on Tuesday. The Afghan government, which is busy arranging extradition for captured foreign nationals, said the latest in a series of surrenders indicated ISIS is losing its ability to effectively resist the national military.

Friday on “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) weighed in on the peace talks with the Taliban, which President Donald Trump revealed on Thursday have been resumed. Cotton said the Taliban needs to renounce violence, renounce its ties to

President Donald Trump mocked Newsweek after they reported Thursday he spent Thanksgiving golfing and tweeting. In fact, the president was secretly traveling to Afghanistan to visit deployed American troops.

“Together, we will succeed,” he said. “We will never forget that 9/11 brought us, and we will never permit the repetition of 9/11 again. God bless you. God bless the President.”

President Donald Trump has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to address U.S. troops on Thanksgiving Thursday. 

Over Thanksgiving, thousands of Green Berets will be deployed in Afghanistan, as the war continues in its 18th year.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump traveled to Dover Air Force Base on Thursday to participate in a military dignified transfer of two soldiers killed overseas.

An Afghan migrant is facing trial for sexual abuse of a child after a five-year-old girl claimed that he lured her into his bed.  

The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) in Sydney, Australia, on Wednesday published the 2019 edition of its Global Terrorism Index.

The Taliban released two Western professors, an American and an Australian, on Tuesday after more than three years in captivity. In exchange, the Afghan government released three Taliban jihadists and flew them to Qatar.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) unveiled his foreign policy vision Tuesday that would “keep Americans safe and prosperous,” while ending America’s decades-long wars in the Middle East.

Quraysh Media, a media organization that supports the Islamic State, is encouraging ISIS followers to start wildfires in the U.S. and Europe as a new way of “waging jihad.”

Syrian and Afghan asylum seekers attacked a village disco in a small German village armed with machetes after two were kicked out by a bouncer.

The Chinese government is trying to organize peace talks between rival factions in Afghanistan, including the Taliban, which sent a delegation to Beijing last month to meet with Chinese officials.

The United States military under President Donald Trump has reduced America’s force in Afghanistan, according to the top commander in the region.

European Union officials called Sunday for a ceasefire in Afghanistan, saying the breakdown in talks between the US and the Taliban presented an opportunity to push anew for a truce.

Austrian police say a 32-year-old social worker has died days after suffering serious stab wounds during an attack at a refugee shelter.

Former President George W. Bush, who led the United States into war across the Middle East, attacked President Trump on Wednesday night, saying U.S. intervention is necessary “for the sake of peace” around the globe. 

“Scars are a truly beautiful thing,” said Ret. Lance Cpl. William Kyle Carpenter, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran of the War in Afghanistan and Medal of Honor recipient, in a Monday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.