The State Department and Department of Defense said in a statement Sunday that there are “thousands” of Americans stranded in Afghanistan after the Taliban declared victory over the U.S.-backed government earlier in the day.
The fall of Afghanistan has shocked Obama’s former ambassador to such a degree that he is now questioning President Joe Biden’s ability to lead the nation.
Even with the withdrawal agreement in place, there was no reason to pull out this heedlessly and incompetently, to disastrous results.
David was thrilled to be uninvited as he feared he would be asked to perform a comedy routine
President Joe Biden promised Americans that the Taliban would not storm the U.S. Embassy in Kabul resulting in a helicopter airlift reminiscent of Saigon in 1975. The opposite just happened.
Press Secretary Jen Psaki is taking a break from her duties as the crisis unfolds in the Middle East
Videos uploaded from Kabul on Sunday showed chaos at the international airport as panicked people rushed to board aircraft ahead of the Taliban’s advance.
Afghanistan’s president appears to have relinquished power to the Taliban after fleeing the country, providing a pathway for Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar. Born in Uruzgan province in 1968 Baradar was a member of the Afghan mujahideen “freedom fighters” in the 1980s during the battle over control of Afghanistan with the Soviet Union.
President Joe Biden plans to remain hidden at his presidential retreat at Camp David until Monday, according to the White House, as the Taliban swiftly seized control of Afghanistan.
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have avoided going on camera as Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, fell to the Taliban on Sunday.
Recent developments may spur the Chinese government to expedite the process of recognition
Fears are growing that the Taliban will move to reimplement Sharia Law with their trademark brutal enforcement
Biden remarked on July 8 that a Taliban takeover of Afghanistan was ‘not inevitable’
‘will first declare victory over … the Americans who were in Afghanistan for 20 years’
‘Canadians deserve their say’
Taliban fighters were ordered to enter the capital on Sunday after briefly holding back on the outskirts of the city.
His departure comes as the U.S. takes steps to evacuate its remaining embassy staff and other personnel from Afghanistan.
The group said in a statement that its fighters would not take the city by force, and were negotiating with ‘the other side’ to enter without bloodshed.
People are not mere tools. Not for entertainment, and not for propaganda.
Groups against President Biden’s extension of the coronavirus eviction moratorium appealed one day after a federal judge ruled it could stand, according to reports.
A California city councilman and five other people are facing election fraud charges following a June vote-by-mail runoff in which the councilman won re-election by one vote.
Taliban fighters have conquered the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, ransacking the palatial home of General Rashid Dostum, a U.S.-aligned warlord, as President Joe Biden “braces for a brutal loss,” in the words of Axios, a D.C. political news website.
Sandra Lee has gotten engaged to her boyfriend Ben Youcef, and the beaming couple hit the town in Paris to celebrate, with a besotted Lee showing off her dazzling new diamond engagement ring, multiple sources sources told The Post.
Former President Donald Trump slammed President Joe Biden in a statement Saturday night, saying that “Biden gets it wrong every time on foreign policy,” and because of that, the Taliban no longer fears or respects America.
Amidst some of the worst days of the Chinese coronavirus crisis in 2020, former Trump administration officials were seeing firsthand the impact of the United States’ dependence on foreign imports as a result of decades-long free trade policies.
Republican Sen. Tom Cotton (AR) slammed President Joe Biden for his “ill-planned” failed withdrawal out of Afganistan in an intense statement Saturday night.
Antifa agitators clashed with anti-mask protesters outside Los Angeles City Hall on Saturday afternoon resulting in multiple injuries.
Former CIA Director and retired Army general David Petraeus called the deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan “disastrous” and “catastrophic” — not only for the U.S. but the world, in a Friday interview.
The president said he had the choice of either following through with Trump’s withdrawal plan or sending more troops back into Afghanistan to secure the country.
The Biden administration sent a letter to Republican governor Ron DeSantis warning of the potential policy.