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The Associated Press (AP) on Wednesday retracted a story that incorrectly quoted a Taliban official denying that Afghanistan’s Internet access has been deliberately shut down.

A massive Internet blackout struck Afghanistan on September 29, evidently imposed by the Taliban regime to “prevent immoral activities.”

President Donald Trump has signed a proclamation declaring Tuesday, August 26, 2025, a day commemorating the fourth anniversary of the Abbey Gate bombing during then-President Joe Biden’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal. 

An affidavit released Wednesday revealed that an alleged architect of the 2021 Abbey Gate suicide bombing that killed 13 American service members in Afghanistan was released from prison just two weeks before the attack — which coincides with when thousands of prisoners were released from the Bagram Air Base after the Biden administration abandoned it.

The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Monday released its 300-page report on the disastrous Biden-Harris withdrawal from Afghanistan.

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have embraced a policy of abandonment, Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT), a former Navy SEAL, said.

Gold Star Family members ripped Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal on Monday.

On the third anniversary of the Kabul airport bombing that killed 13 American service members and 170 Afghans during President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal from Afghanistan, Vice President Kamala Harris put out a statement praising Biden’s “courageous” decision to withdraw and insisted he made no mistakes worth mentioning.

Investigator Jerry Dunleavy resigned to protest the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s probe of the Biden-Harris disaster in Afghanistan.

Canada’s Globe and Mail dropped another bombshell on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s faltering government on Thursday, revealing that Trudeau’s former Defense Minister Harjit Sajjan prioritized rescuing Afghan Sikhs ahead of Canadians after the Taliban stormed Kabul in August 2021.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Washington Post Associate Editor and MSNBC host Jonathan Capehart denied that President Joe Biden’s threat to withhold certain weapons from Israel if they invade Rafah’s population centers was motivated by politics because Biden has “done a lot of

The Taliban junta is putting some effort into reviving tourism in Afghanistan, and “adventure tourism” companies say it is working.

U.S. Central Command has concluded that the sniper team at Kabul did not have the terrorist in its sights before the attack.

A spokesman for the Taliban told Reuters on Monday that his regime is thinking about repurposing an abandoned U.S. plan for increased electronic surveillance in the cities of Afghanistan, and has “consulted” with Chinese telecom giant Huawei about the equipment that would be needed.

On Friday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Darin Hoover — whose son, Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover Jr., was killed during the Kabul airport attack during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 — stated that the Pentagon’s announcement on Friday

China named a new ambassador to Afghanistan, the first country to make an ambassadorial-level appointment to the brutal Taliban regime.

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Alicia Lopez, whose son, Corporal Hunter Lopez, was killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack, reacted to a Pentagon statement on the ability to prevent the Kabul attack by stating that “if their

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

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” host Jake Tapper stated that after spending days refusing to specifically answer questions on camera on whether the Kabul airport attack could have been prevented by either taking out the bomber or striking

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Cheryl Rex, whose son, Lance Corporal Dylan Merola, was killed in the Kabul airport attack in 2021 reacted to Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley saying that he

On Monday’s broadcast of NewsNation’s “Elizabeth Vargas Reports,” Darin Hoover — whose son, Staff Sgt. Darin Taylor Hoover Jr., was killed during the Kabul airport attack during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 reacted to reporting by NewsNation that Pentagon documents

During an interview with the “Fox News Rundown” podcast released on Monday, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) previewed his meeting with the families of the 13 American soldiers killed in the suicide bombing at the Kabul

House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul says he is “prepared to put a hold on funding” for Afghanistan due to Taliban theft.

Two years after the fall of Kabul, the Biden administration has failed to shake the Taliban’s iron grip on Afghanistan.

Gold Star family members of some of the 13 U.S. service members killed during the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan nearly two years ago spoke at a public forum in California on Monday, with one father calling on President Joe Biden and members of his cabinet to resign. Similarly, a mother accused a colonel of giving her false information after her son was killed. 

The Taliban regime on Monday ordered hundreds of beauty salons across the country to close by the end of July, marking the Islamist regime’s latest offense against the rights and dignity of women in Afghanistan.

Rush to evacuate embassy staff amid struggle for power in Sudan intensifies but some feel abandoned as western civilians get left behind.

The Biden White House on Thursday blamed Trump for the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal after recently completing an internal review.

House Republicans will deliver a subpoena to Blinken Tuesday to turn over classified cables related to the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal.

Tajmir Jawad, deputy minister of intelligence for the Taliban junta in Afghanistan, boasted in a national television interview on Saturday that he organized a bloody 2018 suicide bombing in Kabul that killed more than a hundred people, including women and children.

Afghanistan’s Khaama Press on Monday reported the Taliban junta is having trouble protecting Chinese business interests from attacks by the Islamic State, which seeks to both wrest control of Afghanistan from its rival Islamist extremists and punish China for its oppression of the Uyghur Muslims.

The Islamic State on Wednesday took credit for a suicide bomb attack near the Afghan Foreign Ministry in Kabul that killed at least five people and wounded 40 more.

A group of about fifty women gathered in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Thursday to protest the Taliban banning women from universities. Taliban thugs used force to disperse the protest, beating and arresting some of the women while others fled.

Gunmen attacked a hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, causing at least three deaths and 21 injuries. Islamic State forces took credit for the assault, which targeted a guest house used by Chinese nationals working with the Taliban regime.

The Taliban regime in Afghanistan issued an edict on Friday banning women from amusement parks and gymnasiums, purportedly because they were not obeying the extremist government’s orders to wear hijabs and remain segregated from men in public areas.