During the hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) grilled Blinken about the numbers, citing data form the World Health Organization that over 50 percent of wives in Afghanistan were married as child brides.
Ron Johnson (R-WI) blasted Secretary of State Antony Blinken as delusional at a Senate panel hearing Tuesday for painting a rosy picture of the Biden administration’s fatally flawed withdrawal from Afghanistan in written testimony.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken says some Afghans “for understandable reasons” are committing visa fraud to try to get to the United States.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken acknowledged Tuesday he has not submitted a resignation over the deadly Afghan evacuation that left 13 troops dead and billions of dollars worth of U.S. gear in the hands of the Taliban.
Senate Republicans on Tuesday questioned Secretary of State Antony Blinken on who is really in charge of making decisions at the White House amid multiple feeds of President Biden being cut off by a “puppeteer” in mid-conversation at public events.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken admitted Tuesday in testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that he did not know whether an Afghan who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in August was a terrorist or a U.S. aid worker.
The Taliban on Monday were reportedly looking for a Washington, D.C. lobbyist to gain legitimacy from President Joe Biden.
Three Republican congressmen told Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday he should resign over the Biden administration’s deadly U.S. withdrawal that plunged Afghanistan into chaos.
On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox News @ Night,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling the Taliban the “de facto government” of Afghanistan and aid money going into the country are essentially
Rep Brian Mast excoriated Blinken, telling him that families of the killed 13 service members deserve real answers over what happened.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken refused to deny Monday that U.S. President Joe Biden pressured his then-Afghan counterpart, Ashraf Ghani, during a phone call in July to mislead the public and say Kabul was winning its war against the Taliban.
The key questions remain unanswered: How can Blinken continue with his credibility in ruins? And who is responsible for the so-called intelligence failure on Afghanistan?
On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Menendez (D-NJ) said he’s unsure about whether the U.S. will deliver on Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s vow to hold the Taliban to its counterterrorism promises, and
Blinken on Monday during a House hearing claimed that the Trump administration did not leave them a plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan.
United States Secretary of State Secretary Antony Blinken said Monday “about 100 Americans in Afghanistan” remain hostage to the Taliban since President Biden’s deadly evacuation on August 31.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified Monday at the House Foreign Affairs Committee that he still wants the Taliban to have a “genuinely inclusive and representative government” despite naming one that includes terrorists and excludes women.
On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA) reacted to Secretary of State Tony Blinken’s opening statement before the House stating that the Biden administration inherited a flawed SIV situation by stating that members of Congress reached
Blinken testifies on the botched Afghanistan withdrawal on Monday at 2 p.m. ET in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
On Monday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA) said he hasn’t gotten a response from the State Department to his query on how many Americans are left in Afghanistan and he doesn’t know how many Americans are left. Connolly stated
Anthony Blinken’s testimony will be the first opportunity for elected representatives to hold the Biden administration accountable for the disastrous pullout from Afghanistan.
In a Monday appearance on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) previewed the upcoming hearing from Secretary of State Antony Blinken over the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Republicans are planning to capitalize on their first shot to grill Secretary of State Antony Blinken over President Joe Biden’s botched U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan when he testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Monday afternoon and the panel’s Senate counterpart Tuesday.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken praised the Biden administration’s evacuation efforts in Afghanistan as “extraordinary” this week even as Americans remained stranded in the country now ruled by a Taliban interim government as a sharia-compliant Islamic emirate.
The top spokeswoman for a prominent Democrat senator reportedly disputed some of the reasons Secretary of State Antony Blinken provided this week for not clearing privately organized evacuation flights out of northern Afghanistan faster.
Defiant Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Wednesday warned the U.S. and Europe not to take a “counterproductive approach” at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), or Iran will halt even the tiny amount of grudging cooperation it has been providing to nuclear weapons monitors.
President Joe Biden’s deputies are delaying the privately organized flight of some Americans and additional Afghans into the U.S.-run air base in Qatar, says Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who insists he is “furious.”
Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday expressed concern over the interim Taliban government, calling it not inclusive enough.
The Taliban on Wednesday are reportedly blocking 143 American citizens from leaving Afghanistan, fomenting a “hostage” crisis amid denials from the Biden administration.
The Biden administration and European leaders reacted with “concern” to Tuesday’s announcement of a Taliban government filled with mullahs and terrorists, but none of them seemed to rule out working with – or perhaps even formally recognizing – a regime whose interior minister is wanted by the FBI.
The Biden team is working to provide health insurance to Afghan evacuees granted “humanitarian parole” to enter U.S.
President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was confident the Taliban would work with neighboring dictatorships, including China.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said there is “a hostage situation” in Mazar-e-Sharif and reacted to Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s claims that the Taliban isn’t holding hostages, but won’t allow people who
Yemen’s Houthi insurgency once again attacked multiple civilian targets in Saudi Arabia on Saturday, reportedly injuring two children with shrapnel when a Houthi ballistic missile was intercepted by Saudi defense forces.
The latest Golden/TIPP poll shows nearly two-thirds (63 percent) of Americans believe the Biden administration’s way of withdrawing from Afghanistan was a mistake.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday he accepted the Taliban’s repeated promises of safe passage for anyone seeking to flee the country.
Americans involved in the private evacuation of U.S. citizens, green card holders, and Afghan allies left stranded in Afghanistan by the Biden administration reportedly blame baffling delays from the U.S. State Department for preventing rescue flights from leaving the country.
The Biden administration is sending Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to the Middle East to discuss the future and safety of the region following a butchered exit from Afghanistan.
Many of the same officials in charge of the Biden-Harris administration’s Afghanistan policy today were in similar positions of authority when the Obama-Biden administration failed in Benghazi.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), flanked by veterans from the House Republican caucus, hammered the Democrats and President Joe Biden in a press conference after being blocked from introducing a bill that would give the American people accountability on Afghanistan.
Twenty-nine California students are reportedly stranded in Afghanistan at the hands of President Biden’s administration — five more than initially reported on Tuesday — days after the administration withdrew the last U.S. troops from the country to meet the Taliban-approved deadline.
