On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” host Jake Tapper read from a statement CNN received from the Pentagon on Friday afternoon about claims that the Kabul airport attack could have been prevented where the Pentagon said it didn’t pass
Following Taliban mass celebrations marking the two-year anniversary of the U.S.’s withdrawal from Afghanistan, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL) accused the Biden administration of having caved to “terrorists” and taken no accountability for the ensuing disaster.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” White House National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby stated that the Taliban killing the ISIS-K mastermind of the 2021 Kabul airport attack doesn’t show the limits of American capabilities in Afghanistan, but
On Tuesday’s edition of NBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” NBC News Chief Washington Correspondent and Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell reacted to the announcement by U.S. officials that the Taliban killed the mastermind of the ISIS-K suicide
On Thursday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America,” Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said that after the suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate outside the Kabul airport in August 2021 and President Joe Biden’s promise to hold ISIS-K accountable for
On Monday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “Wake Up America,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) stated that President Joe Biden has repeatedly broken his promises on Afghanistan and noted that despite Biden’s promise to avenge the deaths of American servicemembers killed in
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is pressing Democrat President Joe Biden directly for answers on the anniversary of the terrorist bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport that left 13 American servicemen and women dead and their families’ lives forever changed.
Top Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid issued a statement on Friday claiming assessments that the Islamic State is a growing threat in Afghanistan are “incorrect” – a response to concerns following Taliban “foreign minister” Amir Khan Muttaqi confirming that 1,800 Islamic State terrorists had escaped prisons last year.
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.
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
During an interview aired on Thursday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Commander of United States Central Command Gen. Frank McKenzie said that the military is continuing to look for ISIS-K and al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal
U.S. Special Representative to Afghanistan Thomas West on Monday hoped the Taliban would be “successful” in its battle against the Islamic State, and hinted the new rulers of Afghanistan needed to sever their ties with al-Qaeda if they desire international recognition.
A Taliban spokesman confirmed a major attack on a military hospital in Kabul on Tuesday, blaming the Islamic State on the same day that a colleague told reporters the jihadist organization “does not exist” in Afghanistan.
On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the U.S. is “relying upon the Taliban to help us prevent an attack by ISIS on the United States.” Because of the inability to conduct
ISIS-K, the Afghanistan affiliate of the terrorist group ISIS, could generate the capability to attack the United States in as early as six months, the top Pentagon policy official told senators on Tuesday.
Multiple suicide bombers attacked a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province during Friday prayer services. Local health officials said at least 33 people were killed and 73 wounded in the incident with casualty rates expected to rise further.
Three U.S. officials on Wednesday confirmed the suicide bomber who killed 13 American servicemembers plus at least 169 Afghans at the Kabul airport on August 26 was released from prison by the Taliban eleven days earlier.
The Taliban announced on Monday that an Islamic State cell in Kabul was “completely destroyed” and all members of the cell were “killed” in an operation by Taliban “special forces.”
A spokesman for the Taliban’s interior ministry said at least five civilians were killed by a bomb at the Eid Gah Mosque in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, on Sunday. At least four people were also wounded in the bombing, which apparently targeted a funeral service held at the mosque for the mother of Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND) noted Commander of United States Central Command Gen. Frank McKenzie testifying that ISIS-K aspires to attack the United States and said that in order to do so, they
ISIS-K has claimed responsibility for a series of deadly bombings that killed or injured more than 35 Taliban fighters in eastern Afghanistan over the weekend, Fox News reported Monday.
The Pentagon appears to think the “tragic mistake” was legal. But there are several questions that still remain about the Aug. 29 strike.
This month marks the 20th anniversary of America’s largest terrorist attack and yet many of the 9/11 Commission’s national security recommendations remain unimplemented.
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) reacted to a New York Times report that the American drone strike that was supposed to target ISIS-K actually killed an aid worker by stating we could have
The New York Times published the results of an investigation on Friday that suggests the Biden administration targeted an innocent man who worked for a U.S. organization in a drone strike that killed several civilians. If true, the airstrike could constitute a violation of international law governing such targeted killings in wartime — in other words, a war crime.
A majority of likely U.S. general election voters think President Joe Biden’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal has made America more vulnerable to terrorist attacks, according to a Trafalgar Group/Convention of States survey released on Tuesday.
Hartzler called for a commission on the botched Afghanistan withdrawal that led to the death of 13 American service members.
The Tunnel to Towers Foundation is giving the family of one of the 13 fallen servicemembers who was killed in the Kabul airport suicide bombing on August 26 a mortgage-free home, the non-profit’s chairman and CEO told Breitbart News Saturday.
U.S. weaponry and military equipment abandoned in Afghanistan be will be reverse-engineered by China and Russia, Oliver North said.
Now Britain is at peace with the Taliban, attention has shifted to splinter group ISIS-K, which claimed responsibility for the Kabul bombing.
The Pentagon on Monday said it was “continuing to assess” whether it killed Afghan civilians in a drone strike on Sunday.
Multiple Afghan news organizations reported on Monday that an airstrike in Kabul ordered by President Joe Biden appeared to have killed at least ten civilians, including several children.
A missile defense system in Kabul on Monday intercepted five rockets fired at the international airport. No casualties were reported.
President Joe Biden refused to answer questions about Afghanistan, just two days before the August 31 withdrawal date.
He compared people who exercise their freedom to make health decisions regarding the Chinese coronavirus to Kabul airport suicide bombers.
United States Marine Sgt. Johanny Rosario Pichardo, 25, has been identified as one of the 13 U.S. service members who was killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Beijing on Friday called for a “crackdown” on the East Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM), a group China claims is a Uyghur terror organization active in eastern Afghanistan, following a deadly terrorist attack at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on Thursday.
United States Marine Sgt. Nicole L. Gee, 23, has been identified as one of the 13 U.S. servicemembers who was killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.
On Saturday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) stated that the drone strike against ISIS-K isn’t going to stop further attacks and warned that ISIS-K will end up in possession of U.S. military
On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) reacted to the drone strike against an ISIS-K member by stating that the strike is “too little, too late.” And won’t undo the botching of the
