Former President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai, whose post-9/11 tenure was marked by extreme corruption, met with senior Taliban leaders Wednesday to discuss the creation of an “inclusive” government following the Taliban’s conquest of the nation this weekend.
Congressional offices have been flooded with phone calls over the past several days from Americans desperately attempting to escape Afghanistan as the Taliban begin their reign of terror.
Intelligence agencies are pushing back Wednesday against the White House narrative that the sudden fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban caught the administration off guard.
Several establishment media outlets on Wednesday kept ripping the White House with what one outlet called “exceedingly bad” coverage continuing to bash President Joe Biden’s failures in withdrawing from Afghanistan.”
Rep. Jared Golden (D-ME) offered his views on the Taliban takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, telling a local radio station “it’s a building” and he does not have “strong emotions about the embassy” itself.
The Afghan ambassador to Tajikistan for the former government of President Ashraf Ghani said Wednesday that he is seeking help from Interpol to arrest the ex-head of state over the embezzlement of tens of millions of dollars.
The British Prime Minister said he was looking for the Taliban to respect “internationally agreed standards on human rights and inclusivity”.
Hundreds of civilians in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, took the streets on Wednesday to protest the replacement of the national flag in public spaces with the emblem of the Taliban, prompting Taliban jihadists to open fire into the crowd.
The Taliban terror group on Tuesday claimed Afghanistan “will no longer be a hub for poppy cultivation or for the drug business” now that the jihadist group has gained control of the country, Afghanistan’s Tolo News reported Tuesday.
Van (Turkey) — Underwear, an empty bottle and fresh footprints betray signs of migrants sneaking around a new wall along the Turkey-Iran border and stirring worries in Europe following the Taliban’s rise in Afghanistan.
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News on Tuesday, Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA) slammed President Joe Biden for seeking to deflect blame for the “epic failure” on the president’s part in Afghanistan, stating that Biden now “owns” all the recent scenes reminiscent of Saigon and adding that, unlike under Biden’s presidency, the Taliban feared former President Donald Trump.
During an interview with San Francisco’s KPIX on Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) responded to concerns that military equipment falling into the hands of the Taliban might increase the likelihood of future terrorism by stating that President Joe Biden’s
Former President Donald Trump said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” the Taliban did not kill American soldiers for the last year and a half because he told them he would hit back very hard.
Taliban leaders have made it clear they are in no mood for a lecture from the West on the issue of free speech.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News on Tuesday that President Joe Biden prioritized “symbolism” security by choosing to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan by September 11.
China’s state-run Global Times celebrated the Taliban conquest of Afghanistan on Monday, painting an idyllic picture of a happy land where the clouds literally parted over Kabul after the U.S.-backed civilian government surrendered to the extremist insurgency.
Twitter said in a statement on Tuesday that the Taliban will be allowed to stay on its social media platform, as long as they don’t get overly violent. The company claims it will “proactively enforce our rules” but stopped short of saying it would blacklist the Taliban, as Facebook did today.
Mustapha Ben Messaoud, chief of Afghanistan field operations for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), said on Tuesday he was “quite optimistic” about working with the Taliban after the Islamist conquerors allegedly “expressed support” for allowing girls to continue attending school.
President Biden’s approval rating sunk to another historical low on Tuesday following the Taliban’s seizure of Afghanistan, according to a Reuters/Ipsos survey released Tuesday.
The Taliban is killing people in Afghanistan they find with copies of the Bible on their mobile phones, a Christian non-profit announced on Tuesday.
The U.S. sent a notice to Americans trying to escape Afghanistan to go to the Kabul airport, but it could not guarantee their security there.
House Armed Services Committee Republicans fired off a letter to President Joe Biden asking him what his plan is for Afghanistan.
Afghanistan’s first Vice President Amrullah Saleh claimed Tuesday to be the de facto “President” of the collapsed country while the Taliban terrorists held their first press conference.
Former President George W. Bush is urging the United States to resettle Afghans “who have been on the forefront of progress inside their nation” now that the Taliban has taken control of the country.
National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told reporters Tuesday that the Biden administration had planned for “all contingencies” in Afghanistan, repeating a line that President Joe Biden used in his remarks to the nation on Monday.
Left-wing CBS late night host Stephen Colbert has equated the January 6 rioters in Washington, D.C. to the Taliban in Afghanistan, suggesting U.S. forces should be deployed to fight those Trump supporters who stormed Capitol Hill.
The Taliban, a jihadist terrorist organization, vowed during a press conference Tuesday to prevent “discrimination against women” now that it had taken over Afghanistan.
A group of women in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, organized a protest on Tuesday demanding the radical Islamist Taliban respect their rights.
Multiple reports have identified the Taliban commander who led a gloating press conference from the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday as Gholam Ruhani, a suspected intelligence operative arrested by U.S. forces in 2001 and held at Guantanamo Bay until 2007.
The Washington Post on Tuesday quoted unnamed U.S. officials who said human remains were found in the wheel well of a heavily-loaded C-17 transport plane that took off from the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday.
NBC anchor Chuck Todd said Tuesday on “MSNBC Live” that the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan will damage President Joe Biden’s image of competency.
Support for America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan has plummeted by double digits over the last few months, particularly in the wake of the Taliban seizing control over the U.S.-backed Afghan government, a Politico/Morning Consult survey found.
Facebook has banned official Taliban accounts and any content promoting the terrorist group from all of its platforms including Instagram, and WhatsApp. A Facebook spokesperson said: “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under U.S. law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous Organization policies.”
Pentagon press secretary John Kirby estimated between 5,000 and 10,000 Americans are stuck near Kabul after the rapid takeover of Afghanistan by the Taliban, in an interview on CNN on Tuesday morning.
Former Afghan President Hamid Karzai is reportedly cooperating with the Taliban in building a new government and securing the peaceful transition of power.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi lectured American Secretary of State Antony Blinken in a phone call Monday for the allegedly “hasty” American withdrawal from Afghanistan and warned him not to seek help from Beijing on the issue while working to “contain and suppress China.”
The UK will send more aid cash to Afghanistan, but has promised this money won’t find its way into the hands of the Taliban.
The far-left Stop the War Coalition has called for the British taxpayer to pay “reparations” to the Taliban to “rebuild Afghanistan”.
President Joe Biden repeatedly condemned the idea of “nation-building” in Afghanistan during his speech on Monday, but in 2003 he defended the idea of standing with the Afghan people.
Biden’s empty words about taking responsibility are a familiar tactic used by other Democratis to deflect criticism during a crisis.
