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China’s state-run Global Times on Sunday said the Biden presidency “is looking increasingly like a sleepwalk” and linked Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan to almost every U.S. policy China dislikes, beginning with the latest American intelligence report on the origins of the Wuhan coronavirus.

ITV News on Saturday reported that two Taliban jihadists raped and beat a gay man in Kabul after they used social media to trick him into a meeting.

Hundreds of people took to the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan, to protest an ongoing, months-long closure of banks in the national capital and across the country on Saturday, Afghanistan’s Khaama Press reported.

The Washington Post reported that Jiennah McCollum met with Biden, but was disappointed by Biden’s words to her, finding them “scripted and shallow” according to one of McCollum’s sisters.

A missile defense system in Kabul on Monday intercepted five rockets fired at the international airport. No casualties were reported.

The chaos in Afghanistan could have reportedly been avoided altogether if President Joe Biden had accepted the Taliban’s initial offer for the U.S. to have full control of Kabul and the airport. 

Scheller on Sunday announced in a video that he was resigning his commission as a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Corps.

Boris Johnson has released a video praising the “colossal exertions” of British servicemen and officials during the Kabul airport, but some senior figures have accused his government of having been “asleep at the watch”. 

A U.S. over-the-horizon missile strike Sunday destroyed a vehicle carrying Islamic State – Khorasan (ISIS-K) terrorists heading for Kabul airport.

Several news sources Sunday reported a rocket attack and explosion hitting a building near Kabul’s main international airport.

LONDON (AP) – A former British Royal Marine who waged a high-profile campaign to leave Afghanistan with almost 200 rescued dogs and cats has flown to safety — with the animals, but without his charity’s Afghan staff, who were left behind in Kabul.

President Joe Biden began a solemn journey Sunday to honor the 13 U.S. troops who paid with their lives in the suicide attack near Kabul airport as their remains are repatriated from Afghanistan to U.S. soil.

French officials allegedly met with representatives of the Taliban in Qatar on Thursday in their first official meeting since Afghanistan fell to the Islamist group.

TIRANA, Albania (AP) – Two more planes have brought Afghans fearing the Taliban to Albania, bringing the total number of evacuees to 457

A French newspaper has published an article arguing that Afghan migrants with Taliban ties may not be a terror threat as the group “are not destined for international jihad.”

Members of Congress said Saturday evening that the Biden administration was not allowing Americans into the Kabul airport.

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.

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.

The Pentagon said as of August 14, about 117,000 people have been evacuated from Kabul, including 5,400 Americans.

On Friday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Fox Across America,” Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) blamed the attack on the Kabul airport on President Joe Biden’s desire for “a photo op” on September 11. Donalds said, “Let’s be very clear on

LONDON (AP) – Britain ended evacuation flights from Kabul airport on Saturday and began bringing troops home, even as the UK’s top military officer acknowledged “we haven’t been able to bring everybody out.”

Actor Gary Sinise, who portrayed Lt. Dan Taylor in the 1994 film “Forrest Gump,” posted a video tribute to the U.S. military personnel killed and wounded in Thursday’s suicide bombing attacks in Afghanistan on his social media profiles.

LONDON (AP) – Britain is starting to bring its troops home from Afghanistan as the country’s evacuation operation at Kabul airport ends.

ROME (AP) – Italy’s final evacuation flight of refugees from Afghanistan has landed at Rome’s Leonardo da Vinci airport. The Italian Air Force C-130J with 58 Afghan citizens aboard arrived Saturday morning, some 17 hours after it departed from the

Central Command announced late Friday the U.S. had conducted an “over-the-horizon” counterterrorism strike against an ISIS planner in Afghanistan.

The suicide bombings in Afghanistan may have been the worst events for U.S strategic interests since Pearl Harbor, Sebastian Gorka said.

United States Marine Hunter Lopez, 22-years-old, has been identified as one of 13 U.S. service members who was killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.

The father of a United States Marine, killed in Thursday’s Kabul, Afghanistan terrorist attacks, says Americans ought to “be afraid” of U.S. government leadership “or the lack thereof.” 

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) argued that the attack on the Kabul airport couldn’t have been prevented and a more organized exit from Afghanistan “wasn’t going to happen.” Host Jake Tapper asked, “Do you

United States Marine Jared Schmitz, 20-years-old, has been named as one of 13 U.S. service members who was killed in Thursday’s terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan. 

The Pentagon said it expected more terrorist attack attempts at the Kabul airport, where there are more than 5,000 American troops stationed.

A report claims the Taliban is bragging about using American-built equipment to identify and hunt down Afghans who assisted the United States and other nations in the war-torn country.

The father of a United States Marine who was killed, along with 12 other U.S. service members, in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday says President Joe Biden “turned his back” on his young son. 

United States Marine Kareem Nikoui has been identified as one of the 13 U.S. service members who was killed in Thursday’s Islamic terrorist attacks in Kabul, Afghanistan.

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA), an Iraq War Marine veteran, slammed President Joe Biden’s handling of withdrawing U.S. forces from Afghanistan as a “f***g disaster” following a whirlwind trip to observe the evacuation at Kabul’s airport.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Craig Melvin Reports,” Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) said the U.S. has to go after those who attacked the Kabul airport, and “I’m not looking forward to that. Because I don’t want to see continued military