Afghanistan Gold Star father surprised by GOP report: ‘No more question’ on Biden’s failure
The father of a Marine killed during the U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan expressed astonishment at the extent of the Biden administration's failures after a scathing House Republican report was released on Sunday. The 350-page report details numerous failures in the 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, including the lack of an evacuation plan […]
Democrats Have Politicized Afghanistan, Biden-Harris Admin. ‘Lied’
During Monday's broadcast of Fox News Channel's “America Report,” Steve Nikoui, the father of Corporal Kareem Nikoui, who was killed in the 2021 Abbey Gate bombing, reacted to the release of the House Republican report on Afghanistan withdrawal, saying, “The administration lied. If it's not Kamala Harris, it's Jen Psaki, if it's not her, it's… […]
Democrat says Trump 'out-negotiated' by Taliban on Afghanistan
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) said former President Trump “lost the negotiating table” to the Taliban when he reached an agreement to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan within a specific deadline. “What went wrong with Donald Trump's administration is that he lost the negotiations to the Taliban in Doha and locked both himself and the next […]
Congress to Honor 13 Service Members Killed in the Afghanistan Withdrawal
Congress will honor 13 American service members killed in the Biden-Harris administration's botched Afghanistan withdrawal at a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony on Tuesday. The ceremony is scheduled for 11 a.m. ET in the Capitol Rotunda, just hours before the first debate between former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, who has sought to […]
White House pushes back against scathing report on Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan
The White House dismissed a report released Sunday by Republican lawmakers criticizing President Biden's chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 as partisan and containing “little to nothing new.” The committee's Republican chairman, Rep. Mike McCaul of Texas, released a Republican-led report that disputed claims that President Biden is bound by an agreement between former President […]
State Department denies lack of planning for withdrawal laid out in GOP-led Afghanistan report
In a new statement, the State Department backed a hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 after Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a scathing 350-page report detailing dysfunction and lack of planning leading up to the withdrawal. A statement from a State Department spokesman said Republicans have “issued partisan statements, cherry-picked facts, suppressed […]
Retired generals defend Harris, blame Trump on Afghanistan withdrawal: report
A group of retired generals is coming to the defense of Vice President Kamala Harris against criticism over the Biden-Harris administration's handling of the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan this week. The group of 10 former generals and admirals includes Navy Adm. Steve Abbott, a former adviser to President George W. Bush, Gen. Lloyd […]
House Dems issue response to GOP report on Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan
Democrats on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released their own memorandum on President Biden's chaotic 2021 withdrawal from Afghanistan after Republicans on the committee released a report criticizing the president for what happened at the time. The committee's Republican chairman, Rep. Mike McCaul of Texas, released a Republican-led report that disputed claims that President Biden […]
Biden was hellbent on leaving Afghanistan – ignoring military advice, NATO objections and Afghan pleas: House report
WASHINGTON — President Biden has stuck to his guns and rejected any advice to the contrary, ignoring the pleas of the Afghan government and ignoring objections from U.S. allies. That was one of the main conclusions from a more than two-year House Foreign Affairs Committee investigation into the chaotic and deadly Afghanistan withdrawal, according to […]
GOP releases critical report of Biden withdrawal from Afghanistan
Long-awaited Republican Report An analysis of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan paints a picture of President Biden determined to leave the country but fumbling around with his preparations, setting the stage for a chaotic and deadly withdrawal from the longest war in American history. Three years after the U.S. withdrawal from Iran, a report released […]