WASHINGTON – President Joe Biden gave a full-throated defense of his decision to end the U.S. war in Afghanistan after 20 years of conflict, saying the era of large U.S. military deployments to rebuild other nations has ended. Biden’s address Tuesday came just 11 days before the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist
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Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a press conference announcing a class action lawsuit against big tech companies at the Trump National Golf Club Bedminster on July 07, 2021 in Bedminster, New Jersey. Michael M. Santiago | Getty Images Several of the Republican Party’s biggest and most influential donors are signaling that they don’t
A handout photo of a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul. Handout | Getty Images News WASHINGTON — America’s longest war is over. The United States finished its withdrawal efforts from Kabul’s airport, the Pentagon said Monday, effectively ending a two-decade conflict that began not long after the terrorist attacks of
A U.S. Marine provides assistance during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Afghanistan, August 22, 2021. US Marines | Reuters WASHINGTON – The United States is a day away from ending its evacuation mission in Kabul, marking the apparent end of a 20-year Western attempt to create a stable democracy in Afghanistan. As of
Former U.S. President Barack Obama hosts a pre-election drive-in rally to campaign on behalf of Democratic presidential nominee and his former Vice President Joe Biden in Orlando, Florida, October 27, 2020. Eve Edelheit | Reuters WASHINGTON — Former President Barack Obama on Friday issued a formal statement on Afghanistan, his first since the U.S. military
In this article GME HOOD Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler testifies at a U.S. Senate Banking Committee hearing on systemic risk and market oversight on Capitol Hill in Washington May 22, 2012. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters The Securities and Exchange Commission said Friday it is stepping up its inquiry into so-called gamification
U.S. Capitol Police officer Lieutenant Michael Byrd, who fatally shot Ashli Babbitt as she tried to force her way into the House of Representatives during the Jan. 6 attack, speaks with Lester Holt during an interview with “NBC Nightly News” that aired on August 26, 2021, in this undated handout photo. NBC Nightly News with
Security personnel stand guard outside the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan as members of the World Health Organization (WHO) team investigating the origins of the COVID-19 coronavirus make a visit to the institute in Wuhan in China’s central Hubei province on February 3, 2021. Hector Retamal | AFP | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden was warned Friday that another terror attack in Kabul is “likely,” one day after a suicide bomber outside the city’s airport killed at least 113 people, including 13 U.S. service members. The stark warning from the president’s national security team came as the United States entered the final days of
Afghan people who want to leave the country continue to wait around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 26, 2021. Haroon Sabawoon | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images The U.S. and its allies have warned that more terrorist attacks in Kabul are likely, as the deadline for military withdrawal from Afghanistan draws
President Joe Biden clasps his hands as he holds his first formal news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., March 25, 2021. Leah Millis | Reuters WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden Thursday vowed to complete the evacuation of Americans and their allies from Afghainstan after a deadly terror attack
People who want to flee the country continue to wait around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan on August 25, 2021. Anadolu Agency | Anadolu Agency | Getty Images WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Thursday confirmed an explosion at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, where Western forces are rushing to evacuate as many
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, display the Covid-19 Hate Crimes Act after the signing during a bill enrollment ceremony at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., May 19, 2021. Samuel Corum | Bloomberg | Getty Images WASHINGTON — House Democrats
A still image taken from video shows crowds of people near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan August 23, 2021. Asvaka News | via Reuters LONDON — The World Bank has become the latest international organization to pause aid disbursements to Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover. The Islamic militant group has controlled the Afghan capital of
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden told G-7 leaders during an emergency meeting on Tuesday that he will keep the timeline previously set for the full U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, though the U.S. is also making contingency plans should an extension proves necessary. “We are currently on pace to finish by August the 31st,” Biden said
Why are thousands of Afghans trying to flee Taliban rule? Because of the Taliban’s track record. One of the most chilling track records on the planet. Hafiz Sadiqulla Hassani, a former member of the Taliban’s secret police, reported that he received the following instructions from his boss, the secret police commandant: “You must become so
Members of the UK Armed Forces continue to take part in the evacuation of entitled personnel from Kabul airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan August 19-22, 2021, in this handout picture obtained by Reuters on August 23, 2021. U.K. M.O.D. | via Reuters British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will host an emergency meeting of G-7 leaders Tuesday
A member of Taliban forces keeps watch at a checkpost in Kabul, Afghanistan August 17, 2021. Stringer | Reuters WASHINGTON — The United States is in close coordination with the Taliban as it works to evacuate tens of thousands of people out of the Kabul airport before President Joe Biden’s Aug. 31 deadline to withdraw