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Afghan media published harrowing images on Thursday of the immediate aftermath of at least one bombing at Kabul’s international airport, showing bloodied victims carried to the closest airport on wheelbarrows and panicked civilians swarming the capital’s Emergency Hospital.

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.

Ethnic Uyghurs from China’s Western Xinjiang region currently residing in Afghanistan told Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Tuesday they fear the Taliban terror group may deport them to China now that the group has seized control of the country.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has said that America, Britain, and Australia, among others, “must be held accountable” for the “suffering” caused by their “military interventions in sovereign states”, particularly Afghanistan.

The UK and U.S. have warned of credible intelligence of an “imminent” attack against Kabul airport, where thousands of people continue to crowd.

A senior member of the Spanish populist party Vox has wanted of the potential threat from Jihadist extremists among Afghan refugees after the Taliban released prisoners across the country. Vox vice president Jorge Buxadé spoke Tuesday on the issue of settling

The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan has issued a security alert advising stranded Americans to either avoid the airport in Kabul or “leave immediately” if they are waiting at the gates.

With all this equipment that President Biden has left behind, the question on everyone’s mind is: can the Taliban actually use it? 

Canadian Imam Younus Kathrada in a recent sermon attacked Jews and Christians as “our enemies,” accusing them of funding a failed war against Islam while calling on fellow Canadians to support the Taliban and its efforts to impose Islamic sharia law — which includes death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality — in Afghanistan.

Up to 100 Afghans evacuated from Afghanistan and seeking to resettle in the United States have been “flagged” by Defense Department terrorism watch lists, according to a new report. 

The White House on Wednesday defended their negotiations with the Taliban to ensure Americans can continue to evacuate Afghanistan beyond the August 31 deadline for troop withdrawal.

The Taliban terrorists will allow Afghans with proper legal papers to travel after the August 31 deadline for troops to evacuate the remaining Americans and Afghan allies, according to Potzel Markus, the German Envoy on Afghanistan.

VOA and Radio Azadi journalists are still trapped in Afghanistan as the August 31 withdrawal of U.S. troops from the country draws closer. 

The World Bank announced on Tuesday that it will halt financial aid to Afghanistan following the Taliban’s overthrow of the elected government in Kabul.

The Turkish National Defense Ministry said on Wednesday it has begun withdrawing its forces from Afghanistan, where they have been stationed since 2002 under authorization from the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Multiple senior Chinese officials warned on Tuesday against any proposed “wanton sanctions” on the Taliban, a jihadist terrorist organization, by the United States in the aftermath of the group’s takeover of Afghanistan.

During Biden’s failed withdrawal from Afghanistan, Mexico — not the U.S. — helped New York Times journalists escape from Taliban-run Kabul.

President Biden is paying more attention to “arbitrary timetables than to reality” in addressing the crisis in Afghanistan, where thousands of Americans remain stranded as the Biden administration sticks to the Taliban’s August 31 deadline, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said on Tuesday.

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) told President Biden in a letter on Wednesday that the United States must make it clear it will not withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan until Americans who remain stranded are evacuated. He presented a series of questions that the American people deserve answers to, requesting Biden offer his plans to hold the Taliban accountable over reports of the jihadist organization beating Americans near the Kabul airport.

In the nearly two weeks since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, it has endeavored to convince the world that it plans to be a functional national government – yet the jihadists have offered no indication they plan to address the largest public health crisis facing the world today, the Chinese coronavirus pandemic.

Videos out of Kabul show Afghans trudging through a ditch filled knee-deep with sewage on Wednesday to reach the capital’s Hamid Karzai International Airport, waving their travel papers and signs begging for help at the journalists filming their plight.

China’s state-run Global Times boasted on Tuesday that Chinese state enterprises in Afghanistan are enjoying special treatment from the Taliban, which is taking steps to “stabilize the situation and pursue international recognition.”

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Craig Melvin Reports,” Rep. Colin Allred (D-TX) stated that “our mission is not going to end on August 31, in terms of trying to help people in Afghanistan who want to leave.” And there will

Thousands of Americans remain stranded in Afghanistan with the Taliban-enforced withdrawal deadline in five days looming over the Biden and Harris Administration.

Swedish climate correspondent Erika Bjerström has claimed that climate change has helped the Taliban take over Afghanistan as rural farmers saw increasing hardships. Bjerström states that climate change has shrunk glaciers in the country which has interfered with crops and livestock

CNN, a far-left propaganda outlet that spreads conspiracy theories and encourages violence against Trump supporters, could not even average a million viewers during the unfolding crisis in Afghanistan.

With His Fraudulency Joe Biden now taking orders from the Taliban and doing so publicly. a plurality of 41 percent believe (accurately) the terrorists are winning the War on Terror.

Notoriously corrupt former President Hamid Karzai and political partner Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, popularly known as the “Butcher of Kabul,” will reportedly govern Afghanistan as part of a Taliban ruling council, Afghan media reported on Wednesday.

CBS News has blamed “climate change” for abetting the Taliban in their rise to power in Afghanistan, insisting that global warming has forced farmers into debt and into the arms of the Taliban.

Video footage of a U.S. Marine providing water for Afghan children outside Kabul airport — which has circulated on social media in recent days — is “too histrionic,” China’s state-run Global Times complained on Monday.

The last known Jew in Afghanistan, Zebulon Simentov, refuses to leave because he does not want to give his estranged wife a divorce.

The Barnabas Fund, which monitors Christian persecution around the world, warned Tuesday that Christians remaining in Afghanistan face “great danger” following the Taliban takeover.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken did not deny that the U.S. must ask the Taliban for permission to get Americans out of Afghanistan during an interview over the weekend, days before President Joe Biden caved to the jihadis’ August 31 evacuation deadline.

Former George W. Bush campaign strategist Matthew Dowd said Tuesday on CNN’s “OutFront” that President Joe Biden has “done an extremely good job” on Afghanistan.

Video captured an angry Afghan man raging at reporters outside the British Embassy in Kabul this week, screaming “go to hell, Biden!” amid the chaos unfolding as the Taliban take over the country.

After President Joe Biden reportedly caved to Taliban threats Tuesday and pledged to honor the August 31 withdrawal deadline for U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, Republicans blasted Biden’s “weakness” and “incompetence,” accusing the president of allowing “barbaric” Islamic Taliban terrorists to “call the shots” by “dictating foreign policy,” while calling for his immediate resignation.