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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres pleaded for the world to unite as one Thursday and engage the Taliban in dialogue that included a “feeling” of solidarity with the Afghan people now ruled by the hardline Islamic terrorist group.

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.

The former U.S. Army major behind the 2009 massacre at Fort Hood applauded the Taliban terrorist group’s takeover of Afghanistan in a recent letter.

Two Afghan journalists suffered a severe beating and were detained by the Taliban for covering a protest in Kabul, according to Agence-France Presse (AFP).

A Taliban official has announced that the terrorist takeover of Afghanistan will include banning women from taking part in sports.

The Taliban reportedly agreed on Thursday to allow some 200 Americans and other foreign citizens depart from Kabul on chartered flights to Qatar.

Afghanistan’s last remaining Jew, 62-year-old Zebulon Simantov, has finally fled the country after years of withstanding threats from the Taliban.

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.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) argued that if the issue with getting flights to depart Afghanistan is with State Department paperwork, we should take people to a third location and then worry about paperwork,

White House staffers are reportedly playing Harry Potter, trying to find each other’s “patronus” while hundreds of Americans are trapped in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

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.

Taliban terrorists in Kabul have started painting over murals that adorn the capital’s streets, including one of George Floyd, with “victory slogans” applauding the establishment of their Islamic Caliphate.

A Christian persecution watchdog group warned Tuesday that Afghanistan’s new Taliban government considers the country’s remaining Christians to be apostates, whose punishment is the death penalty.

President Joe Biden said Tuesday he was confident the Taliban would work with neighboring dictatorships, including China.

The Taliban announced its “caretaker” government on Tuesday, and the list of top officials included some familiar names: four of the five Taliban leaders released from prison by President Barack Obama in exchange for kidnapped U.S. Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl in 2014.

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

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

A large protest against the Taliban regime, organized and led primarily by women, was violently dispersed by Taliban thugs on Tuesday. Demonstrators were whipped, beaten with clubs, and driven away by gunfire.

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.

A majority of likely U.S. voters support using military force to rescue the Americans President Joe Biden left behind in Afghanistan.

Sen. Lindsey Graham said in an interview with the BBC that the Taliban takeover means the U.S. military will be redeployed in Afghanistan.

United Nations officials said Sunday they have obtained pledges from the Taliban to protect humanitarian aid workers operating in Afghanistan and to give relief agencies full access to Afghans in need of food, shelter, and medical treatment.

At least 500 Americans are reportedly stranded in Afghanistan, contradicting President Joe Biden’s estimate of between 100 and 200, according to the Associated Press (AP) on Sunday.

The BBC reported on Sunday that a pregnant Afghan police officer in the provincial capital of Firozkoh was shot dead by Taliban fighters in front of her family.

The Taliban on Monday claimed to have captured Panjshir Valley, stronghold of the anti-Taliban resistance movement headed by Ahmad Massoud and former Afghan vice president Amrullah Saleh. The National Resistance Front (NRF) disputed the Taliban’s claims and vowed to continue fighting.

Between Americans being forced to swim through raw sewage and the Taliban blocking pregnant women outside the Kabul airport, President Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan was a living nightmare that is far from over, according to one U.S. Marine who aided in the operation.

The Tunnel to Towers Foundation is giving the family of one of the 13 fallen servicemembers who was killed in the Kabul airport suicide bombing on August 26 a mortgage-free home, the non-profit’s chairman and CEO told Breitbart News Saturday. 

J.D. Vance, author of Hillbilly Elegy and 2022 Ohio U.S. Senate candidate, said he is worried President Joe Biden’s botched foreign policy could put the United States at risk of future terror attacks.

A pregnant woman who is from California and currently trapped in Afghanistan claimed the Taliban was “hunting” Americans following the U.S. military’s withdrawal. 

The Taliban said they want Islamic law both at home and abroad and warned Western forces they will face another 20-year quagmire in an impromptu meeting with The Telegraph.

Representative Michael McCaul (R-TX), the top Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, said on this week’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday” that the Taliban were holding American citizens and Afghan allies “hostage.”

Pope Francis launched an appeal for Afghan refugees Sunday, calling for prayers and generous reception of those seeking asylum.