Commentary The suicide attack that killed 170 people including 13 U.S. troops provides the crowning disgrace for President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and the military leadership going all the way up to Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. This disaster in Afghanistan is worse than Benghazi, worse than…
Scottish Afghan Charity Says Its Trapped Workers Are Still to Be Evacuated
A Scottish Afghan charity has said its staff trapped in Kabul have been forced to return to their homes after a “relentless 46 hours” facing gunfire at the city’s airport. The Linda Norgrove Foundation was set up in memory of a Scots aid worker who was killed after being kidnapped by the Taliban. Norgrove’s parents,…
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A rocket attack on the Kabul airport. The evacuation continues as President Joe Biden redoubles efforts to protect troops on the ground. The service members who died in the bombing at the Kabul airport are now identified. We hear outrage from a military mother over the way the evacuation was carried out, and touching insight…
Americans Not Being Turned Away From Kabul Airport: US Ambassador
American citizens are not being blocked from entering the U.S.-held airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, a U.S. official said Monday. “Claims that American citizens have been turned away or denied access to HKIA by Embassy staff or US Forces are false,” Ross Wilson, the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, said in a statement. U.S. troops hold the Hamid…
Beijing Says Sino–US Cooperation on Afghanistan Conditional on Washington’s ‘Attitude Toward China’
August 30, 2021
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Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi on Aug. 29 said Washington’s “attitude toward China” would decide how the two countries would work together on Afghanistan, during a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Yi not only set the condition for bilateral cooperation, but also accused the United States of “fighting terrorism selectively,” according…
Kabul Airport Operations Uninterrupted by Rocket Attack: White House
The White House said early Monday morning that operations at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport are continuing uninterrupted, amid reports of multiple rockets being fired at the airport. According to Reuters, a U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that as many as five rockets were intercepted by U.S. missile defense systems. “The President was…
US Investigating Civilian Casualties in Airstrike on Vehicle in Kabul: Official
The United States is investigating reports of civilian casualties in Kabul after a U.S. drone strike blew up a vehicle carrying “multiple suicide bombers” from the ISIS-K terrorist group on Sunday, an official said. The U.S.-led counter-terrorism drone attack may have caused “additional casualties” as well as the two Islamic State militants it targeted, Captain…
Graham: Afghanistan War ‘Has Not Ended,’ US to Deal With ‘Catastrophe’ For Decades
The former Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has rebuked the Biden administration’s handling of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, saying that U.S. presidents will be dealing with the “catastrophe” for decades to come. In an interview with CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday, days before President Joe Biden’s…
Live Q&A: Thousands of ISIS Terrorists Escaped Prisons; US Airstrikes Vehicle In Afghanistan
Thousands of terrorists with ISIS-K were allegedly released from prisons in Afghanistan as the Taliban took over the country, raising concerns of more attacks following a suicide bombing at the Kabul airport that killed 13 US troops and over 160 Afghanis. And in other news, a U.S. airstrike has destroyed a vehicle in Afghanistan that…
Biden Pays Respects to US Troops Killed in Afghanistan
DOVER AIR FORCE BASE, Del.—President Joe Biden met in solemn privacy Sunday with the families of the 13 U.S. troops killed in the suicide attack near the Kabul airport as the remains of their loved ones returned to U.S. soil from Afghanistan. Biden and first lady Jill Biden were also to attend the “dignified transfer” of the…
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