Afghanistan does not currently pose the biggest terrorist threat to the United States and is further down the priority list following the U.S. withdrawal and subsequent Taliban takeover, Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said on Monday. The top intelligence official’s comments came on the same day that President Joe Biden defended his decision to withdraw U.S. troops…
Top Terrorism Threats Not From Afghanistan: DNI
September 14, 2021
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Analysis: As the West Ponders Aid for Afghanistan, China and Pakistan Are Quick to Provide Relief
ISLAMABAD—As international donors gather in Geneva on Monday to discuss humanitarian relief for Afghanistan under the rule of the Taliban terrorist group, neighbors China and Pakistan have already reached out with aid and discussions of future assistance. The economy in the war-torn country is in crisis and a humanitarian crisis is looming, experts say. Yet…
Taliban: Women Can Study in Gender-Segregated Universities
KABUL, Afghanistan—Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the higher education minister for the ruling Taliban terrorist group said Sunday. The minister, Abdul Baqi Haqqani, laid out the new policies at a news conference, several days after Afghanistan’s new…
France Refuses to Recognise Taliban: Foreign Minister
PARIS—The Taliban are lying and France will not have any relationship with its newly-formed government, Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said late on Saturday before heading for talks in Qatar on Sunday to discuss future evacuations from Afghanistan. “They said they would let some foreigners and Afghans leave freely and (talked) of an inclusive and…
Rescuers Ran Toward the Falling Towers: Heroism Amid the 9/11 Tragedy
Jeffrey Smith was a sales director working just over a block from the Twin Towers when terrorists attacked 20 years ago. He laments the lesser-known death toll that has followed 9/11, such as those caused by the toxicity of the air: “I got a four-element mask, you know, optimized to the dangers … I ended…
UN Employees Face Harassment and ‘Fear for Their Lives’ in Afghanistan
United Nations (U.N.) employees in Afghanistan are being subjected to “harassment and intimidation” at the hands of the Taliban since the terrorist group’s swift takeover of the war-torn nation last month, according to U.N. staff members. “We are, however, increasingly worried by the growing number of incidents of harassment and intimidation against our national staff,” U.N. special…
20 Years After 9/11: Did War on Terror Achieve Its Objective?
Twenty years after the Sept. 11 attack a question remains if the mission in Afghanistan achieved its objective of eradicating terrorism. Allen Weiner, an international legal scholar and senior lecturer at Stanford University, said that the initial goal to destroy al-Qaeda’s base in Afghanistan was largely achieved. “Al-Qaeda’s training camps in Afghanistan were destroyed, many…
Taliban Response to Afghan Protests Increasingly Violent, UN Says
GENEVA—The U.N. rights office on Friday said that the Taliban response to peaceful marches in Afghanistan has been increasingly violent, with authorities using live ammunition, batons, and whips and causing the deaths of at least four protesters. Protests and demonstrations pose a challenge to the Taliban as it seeks to consolidate control after seizing the…
Why NYC Is Vulnerable to Another Terrorist Attack—Feat. Curtis Sliwa
“I ran down to the pit, which had become the world’s largest crematorium … Pictures do not do justice to the devastation, the carnage, the smell, the smoke, the fires, just humans running in and out like ants in an ant colony, desperately trying to find any remnants of life.” —Curtis Sliwa Curtis Sliwa founded…
Kash’s Corner: Honoring the Heroes and the Fallen of 9/11; Is America Safer 20 Years On?
September 10, 2021
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“We need to honor all those who perished on those flights and also honor those that responded and answered the call, not just on 9/11, but in the 20 years since.” In this episode, Kash Patel and Jan Jekielek look back at the harrowing events that led up to the worst terrorist attack in American…
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