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Pentagon leaders testify on the botched Afghanistan withdrawal in front of the House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday commencing at 9:30 a.m. ET.

Senate Republicans on Tuesday forced Pentagon leaders during a hearing to admit they recommended to President Joe Biden that he leave 2,500 troops in Afghanistan, despite the president claiming no one told him to do so.

Milley on Tuesday addressed for the first time publicly allegations from a recently published book, Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.

The Biden White House issued a statement in support of dishonorable discharges for troops refusing to get a now-mandatory COVID-19 vaccine.

The House Freedom Caucus is urging its members to vote against the yearly NDAA that authorizes Pentagon programs and policies.

A failed United States military drone strike that killed as many as 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children, is casting doubt over President Joe Biden’s “over the horizon” plan to keep terrorists at bay in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon said Austin asked the Air Force secretary to appoint a general to examine the U.S. drone strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians.

Bad news for President Joe Biden piled up right after he left the White House early on Friday for a long weekend at the beach.

Austin admitted that the United States military may have killed up to 10 people, including seven children, in a drone strike in Kabul.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby refused to address allegations contained in a new Bob Woodward and Robert Costa book that chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told his Chinese counterpart if then-President Donald Trump ordered an attack on China he would give advance warning.

A spokesman for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley on Wednesday confirmed some allegations contained in a new book that the chairman, allegedly fearing then-President Donald Trump would order a nuclear strike, had a meeting with other uniformed leaders and two phone calls with his Chinese counterpart.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) on Tuesday became the second senator to call for the removal of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark Milley if allegations that he tried to undermine then-President Donald Trump and promised to alert China in the case of a U.S. attack are true.

Trump castigated Milley after a new book alleged he had taken secret action to limit the president’s authority in the wake of January 6.

The Army announced its plan to implement a mandatory coronavirus vaccine for soldiers, which was ordered by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin.

President Joe Biden’s federal agencies are dodging on whether or not Afghans arriving in the United States are mandated to receive one of the three available coronavirus vaccines that millions of Americans are now being required to take. 

Blinken on Monday during a House hearing claimed that the Trump administration did not leave them a plan for withdrawing from Afghanistan.

The Defense Department hosted a ceremony on Saturday morning to honor the 184 lives lost in an attack on September 11, 2001, at the Pentagon.

Biden has dubbed his presidential agenda “Build Back Better,” but so far, he has only succeeded in building the Taliban back better.

House Democrats defended the teaching of critical race theory in the military during a markup of the massive defense policy bill.

The Pineapple Express is moving to the next phase of their operations — getting out hundreds of Americans left behind in Afghanistan.

Trump announced his endorsement of Green Beret veteran and Gold Star husband Joe Kent, who is running on an America First platform.

The Pentagon said it is possible that the military will coordinate with the Taliban on future airstrikes against the Islamic State in Afghanistan.

A leaked transcript and audio recording of a call between President Joe Biden and then-Afghan President Ashraf Ghani two weeks before Kabul fell showed that as the Afghan president warned of a Taliban “invasion,” Biden pressed him to change the “perception.”

Former President Donald Trump, nearly four years ago, warned against the exact consequences of a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan.

SPCAI hit the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) for being a “terrible impediment” to efforts to evacuate dogs from the Kabul airport.

While addressing the nation, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was unable to say how many Americans were left in Afghanistan after the military finished withdrawing from the country.

President Joe Biden announced Monday evening he would speak Tuesday afternoon regarding the end of the war in Afghanistan even as the last American troops had already left the country.

Members of the U.S. media appeared confused on Monday as the Pentagon announced that the U.S. had left Afghanistan at midnight Aug. 31, local time in Kabul — which was only 3:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Aug. 30 in Washington, DC.

The Pentagon announced the completion of the evacuation mission in Afghanistan, the end of the U.S. military presence after nearly 20 years.

The Pentagon said Monday that about 5,400 Americans were evacuated from Afghanistan out of more than 122,000 evacuees, as it wraps up its evacuation mission by the end of the month.

The Pentagon on Monday said it was “continuing to assess” whether it killed Afghan civilians in a drone strike on Sunday.

Scheller on Sunday announced in a video that he was resigning his commission as a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps.

Members of Congress said Saturday evening that the Biden administration was not allowing Americans into the Kabul airport.

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.

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.

The Pentagon on Saturday morning announced the names of the 13 American servicemembers killed in the August 26 Kabul airport attack.