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Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Breitbart News exclusively on Friday that President Joe Biden’s “tragic” failure in his withdrawal from Afghanistan “didn’t have to be this way.”

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.

Secretary of State Blinken was wrong about a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan being unlikely after the withdrawal of all foreign forces.

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. 

Intelligence agencies are pushing back Wednesday against the White House narrative that the sudden fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban caught the administration off guard.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi lectured American Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone call Monday for the allegedly “hasty” American withdrawal from Afghanistan and warned him not to seek help from Beijing on the issue while working to “contain and suppress China.”

Hundreds of Afghans gathered in front of the White House Sunday to ask President Joe Biden to act in response to the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Frustrated protesters chanted, “Biden, you betrayed us!”

Establishment media on Monday compared President Joe Biden’s evacuation of the United States’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan to the 1975 humiliation of evacuating the United States’ embassy in Saigon, Vietnam.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that the Biden administration had to abide by the deal struck by President Donald Trump on a 2021 withdrawal when pressed on the disastrous evacuation of U.S. personnel from the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that while video shows military helicopters facilitating the rapid evacuation of U.S. personnel from the U.S. embassy in Kabul, it was “manifestly not Saigon.” Guest host Jon Karl said,

Following an Iranian drone attack on an Israel-operated oil tanker in international waters off the coast of Oman that left two dead last week, Iranian advocacy group Iranian Americans for Liberty released a statement blasting the Biden administration’s “weak” response and calling on the president to “get tough.”

The U.S. announced that it is broadening eligibility criteria to allow more Afghans and their families to qualify for U.S. refugee status.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday while he was rallying other countries to respond collectively to an Iranian attack on an Israeli-operated oil tanker off the coast, his country could act alone if needed.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged a “collective response” to an Iranian attack on an Israeli-operated oil tanker off the coast of Oman on Thursday that killed a Briton and a Romanian. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has described the drone assault as “outrageous” and promised “consequences.”

Blinken announced a new program to help resettle Afghan refugees in the U.S. as part of Biden’s plans to end U.S. military involvement there.

The U.S., UK and Romania said Sunday they believed Iran carried out an attack on an Israeli-owned oil tanker off the coast of Oman on Thursday that killed a Briton and a Romanian, with the UK corroborating Israel’s claim a day earlier that there is proof of Tehran’s culpability.

Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Sunday said Iran was “absolutely” to blame for an attack on an Israeli-operated ship off the coast of Oman that killed two people, adding the regime had made a “grave mistake” in doing so.

After a swastika was found etched into the wall at the State Department building, President Joe Biden said Tuesday there was no place for antisemitism in his administration.

Even as U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman was heading to China on a diplomatic mission, the Chinese imposed retaliatory sanctions against several American people and entities, including former U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the Cuban regime has not improved its behavior in response to recent U.S. sanctions, and Cuba’s regime “tends to double down in these situations.” Co-host Mika Brzezinski

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken argued that the message that there’s a new sheriff in town on cyber warfare “has been sent” to countries like Russia and China, “and, as necessary, will be

The Biden administration on Thursday announced sanctions against Cuban security minister Gen. Alvaro Lopez Miera and a security unit of the Cuban Interior Ministry for their role in cracking down on protesters. The sanctions were denounced as “unfounded and slanderous” by the Cuban regime, and as “symbolic but meaningless” by critics such as Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), who noted Miera is already under sanctions.

Members of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) slammed Secretary of State Antony Blinken for his unbalanced emphasis on abortion and LGBT rights in his human rights diplomacy.

Members of the Republican Study Committee (RSC) slammed Secretary of State Antony Blinken for inviting a pro-Critical Race Theory (CRT) United Nations envoy to investigate human rights abuses in America, Breitbart News learned Monday.

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) added her voice to a group of Democratic lawmakers Tuesday calling on Secretary of State Antony Blinken to appoint a special U.S. international envoy tasked with ending “Islamophobia” wherever it is found.

Secretary of State Blinken is telling American diplomats to admit their country’s failures when promoting human rights and democracy.

Cuban-born pop star Gloria Estefan demanded Joe Biden take the lead in condemning the Communist dictatorship in Havana for its suppression of mass protests.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) slammed Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday for inviting the United Nations to investigate racism in American while not doing “squat to get” the U.N. to prevent “state sponsored murder just 90 miles off our shores” in Cuba.

The shocking assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise by a squad of gunmen on Wednesday left two people claiming to be the interim prime minister and dueling for power: neurosurgeon Ariel Henry, former minister of the interior, and former foreign minister Claude Joseph.

The Islamic regime in Iran hosted members of the Taliban “political office” in Qatar on Wednesday for negotiations with the legitimate government of Afghanistan, an attempt to elevate Iran’s influence in the country as American troops withdraw.

President Joe Biden has “legalized corruption” by placing more than 15 former WestExec members in key places within his administration, the Intercept revealed Wednesday.

President Joe Biden’s White House is being pressured to ease travel restrictions that stemmed from the start of the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

The U.S. State Department is expected to announce a major passport policy change on Wednesday, allowing passport applicants to select their sex without any sort of certifying medical documents, thereby erasing the concept of biological sex in favor of gender ideology.

Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid officially inaugurated Israel’s embassy in the UAE on Tuesday, thanking former president Donald Trump as well as former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu for bringing the two countries to this “historic moment.”

ROME — Pope Francis granted U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken a 40-minute private audience Monday in which the pontiff expressed his “affection” for the American people.

New Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid told U.S. Secretary of State Tony Blinken on Sunday that “mistakes were made” by the previous Israeli government in the U.S.-Israel relationship, appearing to take the blame for an Obama-era rift and for U.S. Democrats’ shift against Israel.