Planes evacuating Americans and Afghan refugees are reportedly departing Kabul Airport in Afghanistan below full capacity. United States Air Force C-17 transport planes are being used to evacuate thousands of individuals, but flights departing Thursday were only at about 60% capacity, according to Fox News.
A recently resurfaced video showing late Senator John McCain warning colleagues of an “unqualified” and “dangerous” Antony Blinken, who served as deputy national security advisor under President Barack Obama at the time, specifically blasting Blinken’s desire to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
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Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) announced Thursday she will draft legislation that will prohibit the United States government from charging Americans for flights to evacuate Afghanistan after President Joe Biden’s botched withdrawal.
Fifty-seven Democrats had traveled to Washington, D.C., last month to boycott and delay GOP voting legislation.
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At the completion of the training, the student employees were sent an email discouraging them from sharing the training materials with others.
A leaked State Department memo from July shows that Secretary of State Antony Blinken was warned that Kabul would fall into Taliban hands by the August 31 troop withdrawal deadline.
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The Afghan national soccer team shared news of Zaki Anwari’s death in a post on Facebook.
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The State Department claims that 6,000 people are at the Kabul airport fully processed and waiting to board planes.
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As many as 15,000 American citizens may remain inside Afghanistan, struggling to get out, days after the Asian nation fell to control of Taliban terrorists, President Biden said Wednesday.
Less than a week has passed since the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan following the U.S. withdrawal and the emerging portrait is anything but peaceful.
President Joe Biden did not take questions during a Wednesday appearance, nor did he say anything about Afghanistan, but the White House produced a junior official in a pink tie to explain which part of the “mission was accomplished” thus far.
President Joe Biden continued to struggle with his response to the crisis in Afghanistan after days of hunkering down and seemingly waiting for the storm to blow over.
The bottom line is that Biden didn’t leave enough troops in Afghanistan for an evacuation.
During his interview with George Stephanopoulos, President Joe Biden contradicted statements he made in July when he deflected blame for the debacle in Afghanistan by saying chaos after U.S. withdrawal was inevitable.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell sent a letter to President Biden requesting a “Gang of 8” briefing on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan where the U.S. military is attempting to evacuate Americans from the Taliban controlled capital.
