Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) told Breitbart News on Tuesday that President Joe Biden prioritized “symbolism” security by choosing to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan by September 11.
China’s state-run Global Times celebrated the Taliban conquest of Afghanistan on Monday, painting an idyllic picture of a happy land where the clouds literally parted over Kabul after the U.S.-backed civilian government surrendered to the extremist insurgency.
The U.S. sent a notice to Americans trying to escape Afghanistan to go to the Kabul airport, but it could not guarantee their security there.
“Shitshow” infighting has begun to occupy the White House Tuesday as thousands of American citizens are stranded within Afghanistan.
Turkey reportedly canceled its plans to provide security at Kabul airport after Western forces withdraw from Afghanistan but is willing to provide security and technical support “if the Taliban request it,” two Turkish government sources told Reuters anonymously Monday.
Multiple reports have identified the Taliban commander who led a gloating press conference from the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday as Gholam Ruhani, a suspected intelligence operative arrested by U.S. forces in 2001 and held at Guantanamo Bay until 2007.
The Washington Post on Tuesday quoted unnamed U.S. officials who said human remains were found in the wheel well of a heavily-loaded C-17 transport plane that took off from the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday.
French populist party leader Marine Le Pen has criticised the Biden administration after the rapid fall of Kabul to Taliban forces, stating it is unable to defend the free world.
The United Nations Security Council echoed the Taliban’s call for an “inclusive” Afghanistan in a statement on Monday, calling for an “inclusive and representative” new government that includes “the full, equal and meaningful participation of women.” The U.N. also urged the Taliban
The Biden administration chases “white supremacy” and “white rage” as Americans are in peril in Afghanistan, Kash Patel said.
President Joe Biden has abandoned the media in Afghanistan, as the Washington Post publisher reportedly requested help from the White House to evacuate more than 200 journalists in the collapsed country.
“Joe Biden did not have an exit strategy,” Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said. “He had a date he wanted to be out by, which was September 11.”
Fox News obtained a photo Monday of the U.S. Embassy flag reportedly being flown out of Kabul, Afghanistan, in the arms of what appeared to be a member of the military.
MSNBC’s Tehran bureau chief Ali Arouzi reported Sunday on the “The Mehdi Hasan Show” that the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan had been “relatively peaceful” as Americans were evacuating the chaos in helicopters.
McCarthy is calling for a congressional probe into the disaster unfolding in Afghanistan, which has left thousands of Americans stranded.
The Taliban, now in near-total control of the country, are going door to door in newly conquered Kabul searching for journalists and political opponents, according to multiple outlets on the ground.
Uzbekistan’s air defense forces shot down an Afghan military plane on Monday, shortly after it crossed the border, the Uzbek Defense Ministry confirmed.
China quickly offered “friendship and cooperation” to the Islamist extremists in official statements on Monday, contrary to the Biden administration’s frequent threats that the Taliban would become international pariahs if they seized control of Afghanistan by force.
Afghan media reports indicated objects seen falling from a massive U.S. Air Force C-17 after it took off from Kabul International Airport on Monday morning were desperate people plunging to their deaths after they attempted to cling to the departing aircraft.
The UK has been talking to the Taliban, the UK defence secretary has said, as he defended President Biden’s handling of the withdrawal.
Video emerged from Afghanistan early Monday morning showing large crowds of Afghans crossing the tarmac of Kabul International Airport, apparently trying to board a taxiing U.S. Air Force transport plane.
Australia announced Monday it is despatching an “air bridge” to Afghanistan designed to combine military, customs, immigration and consular staff to extract hundreds of people from the volatile capital Kabul.
Larry Chambers, who served as a skipper on the aircraft carrier Midway during the fall of Saigon, said that while the two situations are strikingly similar, they are different in one key respect: Kabul is much, much worse.
In the chaos that has become Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover, stranded Americans and Afghan allies have been pleading for help on social media and through other channels in fear of being left behind.
The State Department and Department of Defense said in a statement Sunday that there are “thousands” of Americans stranded in Afghanistan after the Taliban declared victory over the U.S.-backed government earlier in the day.
Videos uploaded from Kabul on Sunday showed chaos at the international airport as panicked people rushed to board aircraft ahead of the Taliban’s advance.
Taliban officials declared victory and the restoration of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan after occupying the presidential palace in Kabul on Sunday.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) applauded President Joe Biden on Sunday for his handling of the war in Afghanistan, shortly after reports began surfacing that the Taliban had replaced the formal government of the country.
The Biden administration prioritized the LGBT agenda in its foreign policy, including flying the rainbow flag over the U.S. embassy in Kabul.
Inhofe leveled blame squarely on President Joe Biden for the disaster unfolding in Afghanistan as diplomats and Afghan officials fled Kabul.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley told reporters less than four weeks before the Taliban entered Kabul that the local military was fully capable of defending Afghanistan from the insurgent Islamic terrorist militia.
The United States ambassador in Afghanistan has fled the U.S. Embassy in Kabul for the airport, according to multiple news reports.
The leadership of the Taliban ordered its fighters to enter Kabul on Sunday after initially ordering them not to, citing the threat of “thieves and robbers” taking advantage of the flight of the legitimate Afghan government from the capital.
Helicopters busily rescued personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, just weeks after President Joe Biden promised that there was “no circumstance” in which that spectacle, remembered from Vietnam, would recur.
President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan resurfaced publicly on Saturday in a pre-recorded television address to the nation, claiming to be “remobilizing” the barely functional Afghan military forces and vowing to “prevent further instability, violence and displacement of my people.”
A host of reports from Afghanistan early Sunday morning indictated the giant former U.S. Bagram air base has been surrended to Taliban terrorists.
Taliban officials said Sunday they have no plans to take the Afghanistan capital Kabul “by force” even as fighters began entering the besieged city and a host of nations including the U.S. began speeding up the evacuation of nationals, diplomats and local support staff.
The European Union (E.U.) on Thursday warned the Taliban terror group it would be isolated by the international community if it seized power through violence and imposed Islamic rule.
The Pentagon announced Thursday it will deploy three infantry battalions, or roughly 3,000 troops, to assist with the reduction of American civilians at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, and the evacuation of Afghan Special Immigrant Visa (SIV) applicants from the country.
Acting Finance Minister Khalid Payenda on Wednesday resigned his position with the government of Afghanistan and fled the country after the brutal Taliban insurgency gained control of vital border crossings and captured three more provincial capitals, bringing its total to nine.
