A female Afghan journalist denounced Thursday that, despite assurances to the international community that they would allow women to work, Taliban jihadists are banning women from leaving their homes in Kabul and personally banned her from doing her job.
Italy’s former Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has called for dialogue with Afghanistan’s “new regime” following the violent Taliban takeover of the country.
President Joe Biden says his deputies are predicting they will extract up to 65,000 Afghans from Afghanistan.
Pentagon correspondent Jeff Schogol of Task & Purpose posted video on Thursday of the impenetrable “gauntlet” of checkpoints the Taliban has created around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul.
Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected a request by U.S. President Joe Biden to allow an American military presence in countries near Afghanistan, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) on Thursday demanded President Joe Biden expand the U.S. military’s perimeter at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in order to assist American citizens who may be unable to reach it for evacuation due to the Taliban presence.
Former President Donald Trump explained in a statement Thursday the order in which President Joe Biden should have conducted the Afghan withdrawal: get all Americans out first.
President Joe Biden’s inaction is “allowing the Taliban to attack Americans in Afghanistan,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said Wednesday. Her remarks coincide with the president’s contentious interview with George Stephanopoulos, in which he struggled to adequately address the ongoing crisis in Afghanistan.
A player for Afghanistan’s national soccer team reportedly died in a U.S. plane as he desperately tried to escape the country Sunday.
The president struggled and frequently stammered throughout the interview, contradicting his previous statements and getting basic facts wrong.
An immigration lawyer shares how helpless he feels in assisting clients who have been stuck in Afghanistan since the Taliban took over.
Joe Biden, once hailed as a “breath of fresh air” by a British political class where even the Conservative Party tracks liberal-left, is facing an unprecedented barrage of criticism in America’s mother country for his botched handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal.
CNN chief international correspondent Clarissa Ward on Wednesday delivered a report from the ground of Kabul, Afghanistan, following the Taliban’s takeover of the country.
Senior Taliban leader Waheedullah Hashimi said on Thursday the group would not implement democracy in Afghanistan because Afghan culture and Islamic sharia law do not support such a political system.
The Associated Press revealed Thursday “up to 15,000 Americans remain in Afghanistan” after the country’s collapse Sunday.
British troops in Kabul on Thursday confirmed a horrifying rumor, telling reporters that desperate women in Kabul are throwing their babies over razor-wire barriers in the hope soldiers will catch them and take them out of Afghanistan. Some of the children are landing in the razor wire.
Both the Taliban and the former government of Afghanistan have aided in China’s transnational repression efforts to silence Uyghur dissidents, a joint report from the Uyghur Human Rights Project (UHRP) and the Oxus Society for Central Asian Affairs revealed this month.
Representative John Garamendi (D-CA) said Wednesday on CNN International’s “Hala Gorani Tonight” that it would restart a “firestorm of combat” if the U.S. military attempts to enter the city of Kabul to extract those trying to flee the Taliban.
Former President of Afghanistan Ashraf Ghani resurfaced in a video posted to his Facebook profile late Wednesday confirming he is currently in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) after fleeing the Taliban and claiming reports he stole $169 million on the way out were “completely baseless.”
Spanish populist Vox leader Santiago Abascal has called for Afghan refugees to be “welcomed in Muslim countries” while demanding the Spanish government evacuate citizens.
Fatalities were reported on Thursday after the Taliban opened fire at an Independence Day rally in a regional Afghanistan town where protesters were flying the flag used by the former Western-backed government.
The Taliban believe they are in a position to lecture Silicon Valley, and by extension America, on free speech. Are they wrong?
Less than a week has passed since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan following the U.S. withdrawal and the emerging portrait is anything but peaceful.
President Joe Biden did not take questions during a Wednesday appearance, nor did he say anything about Afghanistan, but the White House produced a junior official in a pink tie to explain which part of the “mission was accomplished” thus far.
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), a veteran of the United States Army who served in the Iraq War, torched the nation’s ruling class for what she calls a “foolish, short-sighted mission to turn Afghanistan into a ‘democracy.'”
China’s state-run Global Times on Tuesday reported Chinese corporations are excited by the business opportunities in Afghanistan, once the Taliban “stabilizes” its conquered land and eliminates the “uncertainty” holding China’s ambitions in check.
During an interview aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of ABC’s “World News Tonight,” President Joe Biden said “there was no consensus” on the intelligence on the Taliban taking over Afghanistan, and that intelligence reports said a Taliban takeover was “more likely
Thousands of Afghans, including recently freed Taliban prisoners, entered Pakistan this week through a border crossing located between the Afghan city of Spin Boldak and the Pakistani city of Chaman, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday.
Catholic League president Bill Donohue has slammed MSNBC for comparing conservative Christians to the Taliban Islamic terror group, calling the comparison “obscene.”
Vulnerable Democrats in tough races are starting to feel the heat build around them while hesitating to criticize President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Photos published by Agence France-Presse (AFP) on Wednesday show schoolgirls in the Afghan city of Herat returning to school this week wearing sanitary masks in lieu of the niqab, a full-face covering the Taliban traditionally required women and girls to wear in public under sharia, or Islamic law.
The U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday announced a “first come, first serve basis” for stranded Americans at the airport.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said at a campaign stop in Ontario on Tuesday that he spoke with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by telephone to discuss their shared “concern for Afghan women and girls” after the Taliban takeover.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) stated that after going to war against the Taliban, “we’re relying on that same Taliban to keep Americans safe,” and “to not start massacring people today.” And he doesn’t see
The Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) warning of a rapid Afghan collapse Sunday raises questions of what President Joe Biden knew and when he knew it.
Taliban leaders have repeatedly used public statements celebrating their takeover of Afghanistan this week to sell themselves as a reformed organization, promising “inclusive” leadership, respect for women, and peace with its neighbors.
Erik Prince said Taiwan should procure nuclear weapons as a deterrence against China following the Joe Biden’s handling of Afghanistan.
Gen. Frank McKenzie, commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), released a statement on Tuesday that said Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul has been secured and is once again open to civilian air traffic. McKenzie warned the Taliban not to interfere with U.S. evacuation efforts, and threatened to respond to any attack with “overwhelming force.”
Uganda on Tuesday agreed to receive and temporarily house 2,000 Afghan refugees at the request of the U.S. government, Reuters reported.
The foreign ministry of Turkey said at a press conference Tuesday it “welcomes” messages from the Taliban, including the terror group’s claims that it will ensure security for foreign embassies in Kabul following its capture of the Afghan national capital Sunday.
