U.N. Rights Chief Shocked by Taliban’s ‘Outrageous’ Repression of Women in Afghanistan
The Taliban are repressing Afghan women and girls with unprecedented restrictions that will put the country's future at risk, a shocked UN high commissioner for human rights warned on Monday. Volker Turk said the new Islamic morality law, which bans women from speaking or showing their faces in public, and repressive restrictions on education and […]
Even The Feds Can’t Get Biden’s Pentagon To Say How Many People Were Actually Evacuated During Afghanistan Withdrawal
Three years later, pressing questions remain, and even federal investigators have been unable to get the Biden administration's Defense Department to answer how many troops have actually been evacuated from Afghanistan during the 2021 withdrawal. The Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan was a chaotic operation that initially left 13 service members dead and thousands of […]
House honoring 13 US service members killed in 2021 Abbey Gate bombing during Afghanistan withdrawal
House Speaker Mike Johnson, Republican of Louisiana, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York, will host a gold medal ceremony to honor the 13 U.S. soldiers killed at Abbey Gate during the withdrawal from Afghanistan. President Johnson will posthumously award Congress' highest honor, the Gold Medal, to the 13 Americans killed in […]
Congress Honoring The 13 Service Members Killed In Afghanistan Withdrawal
Photos of the 13 U.S. service members killed in the suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan are displayed ahead of a Gold Medal ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., on September 10, 2024. Senate and House leaders will attend the ceremony along with the families of the 13 service […]
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 […]