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President Joe Biden refused to answer questions about Afghanistan, just two days before the August 31 withdrawal date.

United States Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25, has been identified as one of the 13 U.S. service members who was killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Beijing on Friday called for a “crackdown” on the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a group China claims is a Uyghur terror organization active in eastern Afghanistan, following a deadly terrorist attack at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday.

United States Marine Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23, has been identified as one of the 13 U.S. servicemembers who was killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) reacted to the drone strike against an ISIS-K member by stating that the strike is “too little, too late.” And won’t undo the botching of the

“This is the deadliest attack on Americans in Afghanistan in a decade. And she’s tweeting about spending money — it’s outrageous,” he said.

Three days before the deadly twin bombings at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) called on President Joe Biden to resign for threatening the lives of American troops and “our integrity on the world stage” in what he called a “botched withdrawal.”

Maxton William Soviak, a Navy Corpsman, died at the hands of Islamic terrorists on Thursday in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Fox News anchor Chris Wallace said Friday on “America’s Newsroom” that  Joe Biden’s presidency would be in jeopardy “if there is an attack on the U.S. homeland from Afghanistan after the withdrawal of all of our troops.”

The British Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary has confirmed that two British citizens and the child of a British citizen were murdered in the Kabul airport bombing. 

The number of people known to have died in the Kabul bombing attack rose overnight to at least 95 Afghans and 13 U.S. personnel.

BEDMINSTER, New Jersey — Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively that his successor President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan is the “single most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.”

Rep. Elise Stefanik condemned Biden as an “unfit” leader who “has blood on his hands” after two bombings occurred in Kabul on Thursday.

At least 13 people, including children were killed in a reported suicide bombing outside the Hamid Karzai International Airport.

U.S. officials on Wednesday evening warned of an imminent terrorist threat at the Kabul airport and instructed American citizens to leave several of the crowded airport gates immediately. The Biden administration and Taliban spokesmen both claimed the threat came not from the Taliban or its terrorist allies, but from the Islamic State, which has been fighting the Taliban for turf in Afghanistan for several years.

President Joe Biden in an address to the nation on Sunday said, “terrorists may seek to exploit” the United States’ failed withdrawal from Afghanistan as thousands of fearful Afghans and Americans flood the Kabul airport in an effort to escape Taliban violence.

The prospective peace pact between the United States and the Taliban may prompt thousands of members of the narco-jihadi group to defect to the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) faction in Afghanistan, the Times reported Tuesday.

The Afghanistan branch of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has amassed at least 5,000 fighters along the country’s northern border with former Soviet republics in Central Asia, a top Russian security official cautioned on Tuesday, noting that many of them fought in Syria.

Deadly clashes between jihadi rivals the Taliban and the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) have intensified this week in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar and Kunar provinces, reportedly leaving several terrorists dead and displacing hundreds of families.

Afghanistan has provided what it claims to be proof to Islamabad that the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) and Taliban attackers who killed about 200 people on Afghan soil over the last month trained and planned the assaults in Pakistan.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/IS) wing in South Asia is intensifying its presence in Pakistan, particularly in areas along the country’s border with war-ravaged Afghanistan, the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) think tank cautions in a new report.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) wing in Afghanistan has allegedly released a grim video purportedly showing two indoctrinated boys, commonly known as “cubs of the caliphate,” shooting prisoners in the head execution-style.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) branch in Afghanistan has taken responsibility for an attack on a government-controlled television station in the jihadist group’s stronghold of Nangarhar province that left at least six people and an estimated 14 others wounded.

WASHINGTON, DC —Afghanistan will “continue to deteriorate” this year despite U.S-led international support, primarily because of capability lapses among the American-trained Afghan forces and the expected “gains” by a resurgent Taliban that grew stronger under former President Barack Obama, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Daniel Coats warns lawmakers in the most recent Worldwide Threat Assessment.

The U.S. military killed Abul Hasib, the top leader of Afghanistan’s Islamic State branch, in an airstrike targeting the jihadist group in its main stronghold in the region, located in the eastern part of the war-devastated country along the Pakistan border, officials from both countries have conceded.

After dropping a monster bomb on its fighters, then targeting its leader, the US military is looking to destroy the Islamic State group’s Afghan branch before battle-hardened reinforcements arrive from Syria and Iraq.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) alleges that it captured the opium-rich Chaprahr district in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province from the Taliban, following clashes between the two groups that left dozens dead, including a nine-year-old girl.

Two U.S. service members were killed in action Wednesday night in southern Afghanistan during a raid against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s Afghan affiliate, according to a defense official.

The most powerful non-nuclear bomb dropped by the U.S. military on an Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) stronghold along the Pakistan border in eastern Afghanistan killed at least 36 jihadists, according to Afghan officials.

The U.S. military in Afghanistan is stepping up its fight against the growing Islamic State branch in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, vowing the defeat the jihadist group this year, Voice of America (VOA) has learned.