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Unvetted Afghans allowed entry into the United States as part of President Joe Biden’s massive resettlement operation out of Afghanistan must be immediately deported, Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-MT) says.

Joe Biden signed an executive order earlier this month seizing $7 billion in U.S.-held Afghan central bank reserves, claiming half ($3.5 billion) will be used for Afghan humanitarian aid and the other half ($3.5 billion) will go toward 9/11 victims.

Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL), running for the United States Senate, is calling out “weak-kneed, debt junkie … America Last” Republicans who helped fund President Joe Biden’s limitless Afghan resettlement operation that has brought unvetted Afghans to the U.S. who pose “significant security risks,” according to the Defense Department.

President Joe Biden’s unlimited resettlement of Afghans has brought “dozens of suspected bomb-makers and terrorists” to the United States, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) says.

The Danish Asylum Commission has ruled that deportations of illegal immigrants and failed asylum seekers from Afghanistan can resume.

Authorities in Germany said they are investigating whether one of the drivers involved in a fatal collision this week ran a stop signal.

President Joe Biden, with help from former Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, has resettled more than 74,400 Afghans across American communities since mid-August 2021.

The number of people using heroin under Kabul’s notorious Pul-e-Sukhta bridge — long synonymous with hard drug use — has increased since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, people living near the bridge told Deutsche Welle (DW) on Thursday.

The Taliban terrorist group is reportedly holding two foreign journalists and locals working with them in Afghanistan, according to VOA.

During a portion of an interview with NBC aired on Thursday’s edition of “NBC Nightly News,” President Joe Biden dismissed the accounts in an Army report that the administration wasn’t prepared for the withdrawal from Afghanistan but denied he was

Lt. Gen. Erik Kurilla — U.S. President Joe Biden’s nominee to oversee U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia — “is floating the possibility of co-operating with the Taliban” in Afghanistan, the National, a U.A.E.-based newspaper, reported on Tuesday.

Wednesday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) argued it has become “increasingly clear” that President Joe Biden and his administration are “simply not telling the truth to the American people” about the Afghanistan withdrawal.

Abdallah bin Laden, the son of Osama bin Laden — the former leader of the Al-Qaeda terrorist group — allegedly traveled to Afghanistan in October 2021 to meet with the Taliban, India Today reported on Sunday citing a United Nations (U.N.) report published February 3.

An Afghan refugee, brought to the United States by President Joe Biden’s administration, has been arrested for alleged sexual assault.

House Democrats, along with Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL), are urging President Joe Biden to fast-track thousands more Afghans into the United States.

Former senior Trump administration official and Epoch Times contributor Kash Patel told Breitbart News on Monday that during his exclusive interview with Donald Trump, he got the sense the 45th president is “gearing up” for a presidential run in 2024.

Republican Jim Bognet, running against Democrat Rep. Matt Cartwright in Pennsylvania’s 8th congressional district, says President Joe Biden has turned a “beautiful, rural area” into a “dumping ground” for hundreds of “unvetted Afghan refugees.”

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN Newsroom,” Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) said that ISIS is “very present in Afghanistan with our withdrawal.” And that the group has “an opportunity there to reconstitute themselves.” Malinowski also said that while he does appreciate

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America Reports,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) stated that conducting raids like the one that took out ISIS leader Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi is possible because we have resources around Syria that we don’t

On Thursday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Your World,” Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said that ISIS-K, “particularly in Afghanistan, is trying to re-constitute. They are trying to grow their capability.” And that while America does have over-the-horizon counterterrorism

The unelected Taliban government currently ruling Afghanistan envisages a softer, gentler imposition of Islamic Sharia law in return for global funding and diplomatic recognition.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) reacted to reporting in Axios on leaked notes from a White House meeting on the exit from Afghanistan and the National Security Council’s dismissal of the report by stating

Taliban terrorist fighters were firmly told Wednesday they can no longer carry weapons on visits to carnivals in Afghanistan, nor can they arrive in military-grade transport or wear uniforms.

The Joe Biden White House was unprepared in the days leading up to the fall of Kabul in Afghanistan, according to leaked documents obtained by Axios.

Retired U.S. Marine Mark Geist warned of the dangers of bootlicker military leadership while calling the Afghanistan withdrawal “appalling.”

Charlotte Bellis, a 35-year-old pregnant New Zealand journalist abandoned in Afghanistan by her own left-wing government due to its coronavirus quarantine rules, said on Saturday she had no alternative but to ask the Taliban for help.

A pregnant journalist who was forced to rely on the Taliban’s charity in Afghanistan has finally been allowed to return home to New Zealand.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” George Packer, a staff writer at The Atlantic, discussed his article about the exit from Afghanistan and said that, according to estimates, “90% of SIV applicants” are still in the country and that the “terrible”

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” George Packer, a staff writer at The Atlantic, talked about his article on the exit from Afghanistan and said that the Biden administration’s claim that fewer than half of the Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) holders

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” George Packer, a staff writer at The Atlantic, discussed his article about the exit from Afghanistan and stated that “there were many things” that the Biden administration could have done to handle the evacuation

The Associated Press, citing a U.N. report it claims to have obtained, reported on Monday that the international agency has evidence documenting the deaths of over 100 former Afghan officials or members of the defunct Afghan military since the Taliban jihadist group took over the country.

Some Afghans starving amid Afghanistan’s dire economic fallout — a direct byproduct of the Taliban’s seizure of the country’s government last August — have been forced to sell their “children and kidneys” in desperate bids to earn money for food, Sky News reported Friday.

Pentagon leaders insisted it would be prepared for an evacuation of Americans out of Ukraine if called to do so.

Humanitarian activists and U.N. officials are calling for sanctions against the Taliban to be eased so aid can be rendered to the sick, starving, and soon-to-be freezing Afghan people – but Radio Free Europe (RFE) on Tuesday documented how the Taliban is looting aid programs to pay its officials, and even withholding food to force Afghan civilians into slavery.

Syrian photographer Ali Haj Suleiman on Thursday blew the whistle on China’s Foreign Ministry for fraudulently presenting photos he took in Idlib as if they were snapshots of Afghanistan devastated by the U.S. invasion. 

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Wednesday that much of Afghanistan’s population is “hanging by a thread” after the brutal Taliban takeover – and asked member nations to lift sanctions on the very same Taliban, to facilitate humanitarian aid.