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Aug 30 2021
News
With last plane out of Kabul, America's 20-year war in Afghanistan is over
The final U.S. troops in Afghanistan flew out of Kabul Monday at 3:29 p.m. EDT, ending a costly 20-year occupation that started after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and leaving a war-torn country now run by the Taliban.
The retreat, announced by the Pentagon, came one minute before Aug. 31 Kabul time, keeping the U.S. in the country right up until a deadline set by President Joe Biden's
USA TODAYAug 30 2021
News
US Military Allegedly Blocked American Citizens From Entering Kabul Airport, Top GOP Senator Demands To Know Why
The top Republican member on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations demanded the Biden administration address a report that a U.S. military commander blocked a group of 25 American citizens from entering the Kabul airport.
Former Force Recon Marine Chad Robichaux told the Daily Caller News Foundation that his nonprofit organization had organized bus transport to the Kabul
The Daily CallerAug 30 2021
News
Rockets target U.S. troops as Afghanistan withdrawal enters final stage
U.S. anti-missile defences intercepted as many as five rockets fired at Kabul's airport early on Monday, a U.S. official said, as the United States rushed to complete its withdrawal from Afghanistan to end its longest war.
Afghan media said the attack was launched from the back of a vehicle. The Pajhwok news agency said several rockets struck different parts of the Afghan capital.
ReutersAug 22 2021
News
Poll Shows 81% Of Americans Support Taking In Afghans Who Assisted U.S.
The vast majority of Americans in both parties support taking in Afghans who assisted the U.S. military during the war in Afghanistan, a new poll found, as more than a half dozen Republican governors express support for taking in Afghan refugees.
KEY FACTS
A CBS News/YouGov poll released Sunday found 81% of the 2,142 U.S. adults surveyed said the U.S. should “help those Afghans
ForbesAug 22 2021
Analysis
‘They Seem To Be Afraid’: Refugee Advocates Say Biden Must Do More
Refugee advocates are running out of patience with President Joe Biden’s administration, as their high hopes for progress after four years of hostility from former President Donald Trump curdle into a belief the Biden White House is more concerned with avoiding GOP attacks than with helping vulnerable people overseas.
The ongoing chaos surrounding Kabul Airport has driven home the
HuffPostSep 02 2016
News
Hurricane Hermine makes landfall in Florida and is downgraded to a tropical storm
Hermine slammed into Florida’s Gulf Coast early Friday as a Category 1 hurricane, the strongest storm to hit the state in more than a decade, bringing heavy rain, powerful winds and storm surges that forced some evacuations as the system began its crawl up the Atlantic Coast.
Washington PostSep 21 2021
News
Biden steps into global spotlight at U.N. seeking to repair strained alliances
President Joe Biden will use his biggest moment so far on the international stage at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to defend his decision to pull troops from Afghanistan, and seek to re-establish America’s alliances and role in the international community.
The speech will be his first as president at the meeting, which will look much different from past gatherings with
NBC News DigitalMay 19 2019
News
Trump, Europe increasingly at odds on Iran
Escalating tensions with Iran have laid bare President Trump’s split with the United States’ traditional European allies. Several times this past week, the United States appeared out-of-step with European countries on whether Iran is presenting enough of a new threat to justify a military buildup and the partial evacuation of U.S. diplomats from neighboring Iraq. Trump and European leaders
The HillAug 24 2021
Opinion
The Media’s Finest Hour
Amid the Afghanistan debacle, Team Biden is caught flat-footed as, for once, a typically compliant press holds him to account.
Poor Ron Klain.
It’s not a good sign when a White House chief of staff to a Democratic president wants to retweet favorable news coverage and all he can find is the least credible and most slavishly loyal commentators on the Internet.
The
Rich LowryAug 23 2021
News
Biden’s ‘transformative vision,’ Democrats’ plans unfazed by meltdown in Afghanistan
The chaos in Afghanistan may have changed global headlines, but it has done little to shake Democrats from their course at home. House members return to Capitol Hill on Monday to begin advancing the party’s $3.5 trillion makeover of the American social safety net.
Debates about welcoming tens of thousands of Afghan migrants did nothing to derail Democrats’ hopes of approving an amnesty
Washington Times