How the Taliban retook half of Afghanistan – BBC News
The Taliban are advancing rapidly across large parts of Afghanistan. They are now in control of more territory than at any time since they were ousted from power in 2001. Emboldened by the withdrawal...
View ArticleBiden restates commitment to Afghan drawdown amid Taliban offensive – POLITICO
President Joe Biden showed no sign of backing away from his decision to withdraw all troops and a significant portion of the diplomatic corps from Afghanistan, restating his determination to leave the...
View ArticleTaliban take over Afghanistan: What we know and what’s next – ABC News
The Taliban have seized power in Afghanistan two weeks before the U.S. was set to complete its troop withdrawal after a costly two-decade war. The insurgents stormed across the country, capturing all...
View ArticleProtest outside White House as Taliban seizes Afghan cities | wusa9.com
5,000 troops are being sent to Afghanistan to evacuate U.S. Diplomats and Afghan allies. WASHINGTON — People with ties to Afghanistan are pleading to President Joe Biden to step in and help as hundreds...
View ArticleAfghanistan: striking image appears to show 640 people fleeing Kabul in...
The picture obtained by US defence and security news site Defense One is believed to show 640 people crammed into a C-17 Globemaster III, among the highest number of people ever carried in such an...
View ArticlePence claims Biden broke Trump administration’s deal with Taliban
Former Vice President Mike Pence claimed Tuesday that President Joe Biden reneged on the cease-fire deal his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, agreed with the Taliban in February 2020,...
View ArticleAfghan resistance fighters take back territory from Taliban
The fight for Afghanistan may not be entirely over. A high-ranking former Afghan government official said Friday that resistance fighters — mainly made of about 300 battle-ready mujahideen members and...
View ArticleBritish military: 7 Afghans killed in chaos at Kabul airport
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A panicked crush of people trying to enter Kabul’s international airport killed seven Afghan civilians in the crowds, the British military said Sunday, showing the danger...
View ArticleHarris laughs at, shuts down questions as she says Afghanistan is her highest...
Vice President Kamala Harris chuckled at and cut off a reporter to say that Afghanistan is the administration's top priority. Harris, who is currently traveling through South Asia, was asked about the...
View ArticleSeth Moulton, a Democrat who is speaking the truth about Afghanistan — and...
Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., and Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich flew unannounced into Kabul airport in the middle of the ongoing chaotic evacuation Tuesday, stunning State Department and U.S. military...
View ArticleKabul airport explosions: US troops, Afghans killed – CNN
(CNN)Twelve US service members and dozens of Afghans have been killed in two bombing attacks outside Kabul's airport, according to the Pentagon and Afghanistan's Ministry of Public Health. The deadly...
View ArticleBiden admits admin may have given Taliban ‘kill list’ of Afghans who aided US
A potentially deadly blunder by President Joe Biden’s administration effectively handed the Taliban a “kill list” to target Afghans who aided the US, according to a report Thursday — and admitted it...
View ArticleUS airstrike targets Islamic State member in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States military struck back at the Islamic State on Saturday, bombing an IS member in Afghanistan less than 48 hours after a devastating suicide bombing claimed by the...
View ArticleU.S. drone strikes an ISIS-K vehicle packed with explosives in Kabul
WASHINGTON – The United States carried out a military strike on Sunday against an ISIS-K target in Kabul, a development that comes in the final days of an immense humanitarian evacuation mission. “U.S....
View ArticleJoe Biden’s call to Afghan president is impeachable: Devine
Reuters has a bombshell report about a July phone call between Joe Biden and then-Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani, in which the US president promises military aid in return for lies
View ArticleWomen join protests on Kabul streets in defiance of Taliban rule
By Jennifer Jett Hundreds of Afghans, many of them women, protested in Kabul on Tuesday, chanting slogans against neighboring Pakistan and expressing support for rebels in the last part of the country...
View ArticleKabul strike killed US aid worker and family, not ISIS bombers
A US airstrike in Kabul against a supposed ISIS bomber reportedly killed an innocent man who worked for a US aid group and his family, according to newly published testimony and footage.
View ArticleIsraeli jets strike Gaza after 2nd rocket attack in 24 hours | The Times of...
The Israel Defense Forces overnight Saturday-Sunday carried out another round of retaliatory airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, following two rocket attacks on southern Israel in less than 24 hours. The...
View ArticleWoodward/Costa book: Milley took secret action to protect nuclear weapons – CNN
Right after Trump lost the election, Milley discovered the President had signed a military order to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by January 15, 2021, before he left the White House.
View ArticleUS military admits it killed 10 civilians and targeted wrong vehicle in Kabul...
The military based the strike on a reasonable certainty standard to launch the strike on the vehicle. Tragically, it was the wrong vehicle. Source: US military admits it killed 10 civilians and...
View ArticleKabul: At least 16 wounded in hospital blasts – CNN
(CNN)At least 16 people were wounded in two blasts at a military hospital in the Afghan capital on Tuesday. It was unclear if there were fatalities in the blasts at the Daoud Khan Military hospital, a...
View ArticleYemen: Airstrikes kill 70 people and knock out internet – CNN
At least 70 people were killed and more than 130 injured when an airstrike hit a detention center in Yemen on Friday, Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said, as the Saudi-led coalition continued to ramp up...
View ArticleU.S. special forces raid in Syria kills ISIS leader, Biden says
Local residents and first responders described a dramatic overnight incident that left a number of people dead, including women and children. By Chantal Da Silva, Ammar Cheikh Omar, Courtney Kube and...
View ArticleUS takes out al Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri in ‘successful’ Afghanistan...
The United States killed the leader of al Qaeda, Ayman Al Zawahri in a “successful” counterterrorism operation in Afghanistan over the weekend that senior Biden administration officials say “deals a...
View ArticleTaliban: Car bomb near Kabul mosque kills 7, wounds 41
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A car bomb went off Friday as worshippers were leaving a Kabul mosque, killing at least seven people and wounding 41, including several children, a Taliban official said. No...
View ArticleMore than 500 Pennsylvania National Guard soldiers deployed to Middle East
The soldiers will serve as part of Operation Spartan Shield with missions throughout southwest Asia. It's the second time they've answered the call to duty in that area.
View ArticleSix killed as Israel targets militants in West Bank raid
Six Palestinians, including a militant commander, die in one of the biggest operations in months. Five Palestinians, reportedly all gunmen, have been killed in a major Israeli raid against a militant...
View ArticleTwin blasts shake Jerusalem, killing teen and wounding 18
Two blasts have gone off near bus stops in Jerusalem at the height of rush hour, killing a teenager and injuring at least 18, in what Israeli police said were suspected attacks by Palestinians. Source:...
View ArticleNearly 220 million people in Pakistan without power after countrywide outage...
A nationwide power outage in Pakistan left nearly 220 million people without electricity on Monday, threatening to cause havoc in the South Asian nation already grappling with fuel shortages in the...
View ArticleDrones attack military plant in Iran, Tehran says | CNN
Drones attacked a military plant in Iran’s central city of Isfahan, Tehran said on Sunday. “An explosion has occurred in one of the military centers affiliated to the Ministry of Defense,” the deputy...
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