Republican Brady Duke, a Christian minister and former Navy SEAL sniper, running in Florida’s Seventh Congressional District, said President Joe “Biden’s been wrong on every major foreign policy and national security issue for nearly four decades,” including Afghanistan.
President Joe Biden’s average approval rating crashed to an all-time personal low on Sunday as it dwindled to an abysmal 37.7 percent, according to RealClearPolitics.
An Indian governmental delegation met with leaders of the Taliban in Kabul on Thursday for the first time since the group seized control of Afghanistan in August 2021, Asian News International (ANI) reported, noting that the high-level meeting concerned bilateral relations and humanitarian aid.
The latest report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the federal government’s designated watchdog on America’s role in the country, blamed President Joe Biden’s extension of the Afghan war — then abrupt withdrawal from the country — for crushing the morale of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF), paving the way for the Taliban’s swift takeover.
Nigel Farage says it is “crazy” that Donald Trump was banned from Twitter but the radical Islamic extremist Taliban remained on the platform even as it stormed Kabul.
Twin bomb blasts targeted a boys’ secondary school in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, killing at least six people and wounding roughly 24 others, the Kabul-based Tolo News reported.
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.
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.
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
At least 16 Afghan provinces including Kabul province, which contains the nation’s capital city of Kabul, suffered electricity blackouts on Thursday, Afghanistan’s online news service Khaama Press reported.
The Taliban’s “Ministry of Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice” has peppered Kabul with posters mandating women wear hijab but illustrated with the full-body burqa covering, Afghanistan’s Khaama Press reported Monday.
Sohail Ahmadi, the baby handed over a barricade to American soldiers during the chaos at the Kabul airport in August in a famous viral photograph, was reunited with his relatives in Kabul on Saturday.
Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani spoke in a BBC radio interview on Thursday for the first time since he mysteriously disappeared during the fall of Kabul in August.
Volunteers from the nonprofit organization Project Dynamo rescued 39 U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents stranded in Afghanistan on Friday, according to reports.
Chinese state media on Tuesday pounced on the Pentagon report exonerating all U.S. military personnel of wrongdoing for the August 29 drone strike that killed an innocent civilian and nine members of his family in Kabul, including several children.
Some of the thousands of Afghan refugees who have been resettled in the UK since the Allied withdrawal pose a security risk. It could be a few of them or it could be a lot of them but we don’t know how many because, we learn from a Freedom of Information request made by Breitbart’s Jack Montgomery, the Home Office is apparently too embarrassed to tell us, claiming it would not be in “the public interest”.
The British government has told Breitbart London it knows how many Afghans airlifted to the UK as evacuees were on watch lists or had previously been deported from the country — but insists it is not in the public interest to reveal it.
The Taliban-run passport office in Kabul shut down on Tuesday, ostensibly because its biometric equipment and computer systems could not handle the enormous demand for travel documents.
Tickets for international flights out of Kabul’s main airport are prohibitively expensive, meaning most people in Afghanistan are unable to fly abroad, Tolo News reported Thursday.
The Taliban regime, which styles itself as the “Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan” or IEA, on Sunday announced it has appointed 44 of its members as provincial governors and police chiefs. The international community has expressed unease with the Taliban’s practice of suppressing political opposition by reserving most high government offices for its own members.
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.
There was a feeling of danger at the Hamid Karzai International Airport on August 26 when 16 hours prior, the U.S. Embassy warned American citizens to avoid the area, ABC News reported Sunday.
The U.S State Department announced that they had discovered another 76 American citizens stuck in Afghanistan in the past week.
An email written by a U.S. diplomat and published online by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) appeared to show there was no security vetting of those allowed to board United States military aircraft and evacuate Kabul as part of the Biden administration’s hastily called non-combatant evacuation operation.
What some U.S. forces thought would be 96 hours on the ground in Afghanistan evacuating U.S. embassy staff turned into 16 days.
The man known as the last Jew of Kabul could soon be heading to Israel, after agreeing to grant his estranged wife a religious divorce in a Zoom call — a precondition for smooth entry to the Holy Land.
The United States Defense Department announced Friday it is committed to giving condolence payments to the families of the individuals killed during an errant U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, which occurred in August.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on Tuesday reported the Taliban has quietly permitted teenage girls to return to school in four of Afghanistan’s northern provinces, ostensibly because Taliban 2.0 is willing to “shape policy around cultural differences across Afghanistan, unlike in the 1990s, when they imposed harsh social rules on everyone under their rule.”
A Taliban spokesman announced on October 9 that the Taliban would not work with the United States to stave off the extremist Islamic State in Afghanistan.
The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) allegedly used a secret escape gate near Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport to help high-priority evacuees gain entry to the airport and flee Kabul as the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in August, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported Wednesday.
On Wednesday’s broadcast of CNN’s “New Day,” CNN Pentagon Correspondent Oren Liebermann reported that the ISIS-K suicide bomber who carried out the suicide bombing at the Kabul Airport had been released from the prison at Bagram Air Base by the Taliban
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.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley was too busy to come up with an Afghanistan withdrawal plan. He was too busy leaking to a raft of Washington reporters who spent the past year digging up dirt for the library of rabidly anti-Trump books they were writing.
Taliban terrorists on Thursday broke up a women’s rights demonstration and fired shots in the air while pushing away protesters from the scene, according to AFP journalists.
Taliban terrorists have been photographed enjoying fairground rides with AK-47 and M4 assault rifles cradled in their arms while the rest of the country deals with the social strictures imposed by the newly declared Afghanistan Islamic Emirate.
The Taliban terrorists running the newly instituted Afghanistan Caliphate are no fans of male personal grooming and hygeine. To that end the group issued a ban Sunday on shaving beards in the country’s southern province of Helmand, local media reported, with a concurrent end to quiffs, mohawks, and crew cuts.
Former President Donald Trump honored a Marine who helped evacuate children from Afghanistan by inviting him on stage to speak during a rally in Perry, Georgia, Saturday evening.
Mullah Nooruddin Turabi, a founding member of the Taliban, said on Thursday the extremist group will resume executions and amputations as punishments for violating Islamic law, no matter what the international community thinks of its barbaric practices.
