March 29, 2024

Massive Earthquake Kills over 2,400 in Northwest Afghanistan

Afghanistan was struck by its deadliest earthquake in years on Sunday, with more than 2,400 casualties reported at last count from the northwestern city of Herat and its surrounding province. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) rated the quake at magnitude 6.3 and said its epicenter was in the rural district of Zindajan, about 20 miles

China Ramped up Harassment of the U.S. Military After Joe Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal

China’s military dramatically increased its harassment of U.S. aircraft in the Asia-Pacific region after the Biden administration’s botched Afghanistan withdrawal, a newly released Pentagon report indicates. The yearly report on China’s military said that between the fall of 2021 and the fall of 2023, the United States tracked more than 180 instances of People’s Liberation Army

Afghanistan Gold Star Mom: I Don’t Believe Pentagon on Kabul Attack, They’ve Misled Us

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “The Lead,” Alicia Lopez, whose son, Corporal Hunter Lopez, was killed in the 2021 Kabul airport attack, reacted to a Pentagon statement on the ability to prevent the Kabul attack by stating that “if their statement that they released today is anything like the DOD report that we received at

House Foreign Affairs leadership offered viewing of Afghanistan cable

Ranking member, Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) (right) asks questions as Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) (left) listens during the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. | Mariam Zuhaib/AP Photo The State Department has offered to let House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas) and Ranking Member Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.) see a dissent cable related

Dem Rep. Crow: Biden ‘Could Have Gotten More Folks out’ of Afghanistan, He’s Taken Sufficient Responsibility

On Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO) stated that if the Biden administration started evacuating people from Afghanistan earlier, “We could have gotten more folks out.” And the administration has taken sufficient accountability for the events in Afghanistan. Host Alex Marquardt asked, “You were critical of the Biden administration during that

Defense Secretary Austin: ‘No regrets’ over chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Why China is Arming Russia

With these incompetents in the Pentagon and with a semi-demented president, our national security is in great danger. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and General Millie need to be fired or America may lose a future war.  – Frank de Varona Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin testifies before the House Armed Services Committee on the […]

‘Lord of the Rings’ Star Nazanin Boniadi Accuses Taliban-Controlled Afghanistan and Iran of ‘Gender Apartheid’

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Actor Nazanin Boniadi on Wednesday urged the world to back the protests in her native Iran calling for women’s rights and political change, saying despots fear nothing “more than a free and politically active woman.” Speaking on the sidelines of the Forbes 30/50 Summit in Abu Dhabi, Boniadi

Exclusive — Steve Scalise: Investigation Priorities Are ‘Afghanistan Withdrawal,’ ‘Origins of COVID,’ ‘Laptop Scandal’

Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) said on Monday’s edition of SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow that House Republicans’ priorities for the incoming 118th United States Congress include investigations of “the origins of COVID,” “the Afghanistan withdrawal,” and “the laptop scandal” involving President Joe Biden’s second son, Hunter Biden. Scalise, who was elected as the

‘Ripple Effect’: Military Families Pay For Biden’s Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal

One year after the Biden administration’s military withdrawal from Afghanistan resulted in the deaths of 13 U.S. soldiers, Dakota Halverson, the brother of one of the Marines killed, took his own life. The family says President Joe Biden has refused to take responsibility for mistakes made in the withdrawal, a factor that may have influenced…

Milley alleges Trump ordered troops withdrawn from Afghanistan, Somalia

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As Taliban Takeovers Paints Gloom In Afghanistan, Biden Vows To Stay Out Of It

President Joe Biden vowed Thursday not to send troops back into Afghanistan, despite reports of Taliban takeovers, amid the ongoing withdrawal process from Afghanistan. As the Taliban continues taking over more and more territories – and amid reports that the Afghan military has at times waved the white flag during these takeovers – Biden declared…

Iran: U.S. ‘Terrorist Regime’ Responsible for Afghanistan School Massacre

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), a designated terrorist organization, issued a statement on Monday describing the bombing attack on a girls’ school in Kabul, Afghanistan, as part of a “plot by Americans” to bring “terrorism, war, and insecurity to Afghanistan.” Saturday’s bombing in Kabul targeted young girls emerging from a school with multiple explosive…

US Military Destroying Equipment They’re Leaving Behind In Afghanistan

As the U.S. military prepares for its withdrawal from Afghanistan on Sept. 11 of this year, it is destroying vehicles and military equipment that won’t be making the trip back home and selling it as scrap metal, according to The Associated Press (AP). Military equipment used in Afghanistan by the U.S. military is now going…

Cindy McCain on Afghanistan Withdrawal: ‘I Believe in’ President Biden

Cindy McCain, the spouse of the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that she believed in President Joe Biden on his proposal to withdraw from Afghanistan. Anchor Jake Tapper said, “I want to ask you about President Biden’s decision and announcement to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. Senator…

Trump Urges Biden To Reconsider 9/11 Afghanistan Withdrawal

Former President Donald Trump called on President Joe Biden Sunday to reconsider extending the United States’ deadline for a full withdrawal from Afghanistan. “I wish Joe Biden wouldn’t use September 11th as the date to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan, for two reasons. First, we can and should get out earlier. Nineteen years is enough,…

Nearly All Lawmakers at House Armed Services Committee Hearing Opposed Afghanistan Troop Drawdown

Nearly all lawmakers present during a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Friday expressed opposition to President Trump’s troop drawdown in Afghanistan from 4,500 troops to 2,500 troops by January 15, despite little public appetite for keeping U.S. military involvement going. Both Republicans and Democrats at the hearing expressed reservations about the decision, which was…

U.S. Redeploying Troops from Iraq to Afghanistan Following Islamic State Defeat.

The United States has begun to diminish its military presence in Iraq in response to Baghdad’s declaration of victory over the Islamic State, a move that marks a shifting of priorities as America redeploys the forces and equipment to Afghanistan. Saad al-Hadithi, a spokesman for the Iraqi government, told the Associated Press (AP), “The battle […]

TRUMP WAS RIGHT: Gold Star Widow Releases Trump’s Call After Husband Was Killed In Afghanistan

“Say hello to your children, and tell them your father, he was a great hero that I respected.” In response to a claim by a Florida congresswoman this week claiming that President Donald Trump is disrespectful to the loved ones of fallen American soldiers, an African-American Gold Star widow released a video of a phone […]

Trump Makes the Right Decision on Afghanistan… and Pakistan

Immediately after Donald Trump’s Afghanistan speech, Lindsey Graham — not always the president’s biggest fan — praised the address and noted Trump was smart to leave the actual  direction of day-to-day conduct of warfare to those trained to do it: the generals. He contrasted Donald with Obama, whom Graham called a “bad general.” True enough, […]

‘Mother of all bombs’ kills 36 Islamic State militants, Afghanistan officials say

Afghanistan officials said 36 Islamic State militants were killed when the U.S. dropped the “mother of all bombs” on a tunnel complex Thursday. The Afghanistan Ministry of Defense added in a statement Friday that there were no civilian casualties and that several Islamic State caves and ammunition caches were destroyed. The GBU-43B, a 21,000-pound conventional […]

Why the US dropped the ‘mother of all bombs’ in Afghanistan.

The U.S. military dropped a massive non-nuclear bomb on ISIS targets in Afghanistan Thursday – using the weapon for the first time ever partly to send the enemy a message, according to a U.S. Central Command spokesman. Operation Resolute Support dropped a GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB) on “a huge beehive” of ISIS tunnels […]

BREAKING: US drops largest non-nuclear bomb on IS target in Afghanistan.

A GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast weapon on display outside the Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida (Wikipedia/Fl295/public domain) In first combat use of weapon, 11-ton ‘Mother Of All Bombs’ used in strike on jihadist cave complex The Pentagon said Thursday US forces in Afghanistan dropped the military’s largest non-nuclear bomb on […]

Woman Beheaded By Taliban In Afghanistan For Leaving Her House Without Her Husband

A 30 year old woman was beheaded on Monday in Afghanistan by several members of the Taliban. Zabiullah Amani, the spokesman for the Provincial Governor said the woman was beheaded for leaving her house to visit the city without her husband, because he was in Iran. In Afghanistan, there is widespread support for Shariah law, which deems women […]

BREAKING: 4 Americans killed in suicide bombing at US base in Afghanistan

Afghanistan’s National Army soldiers guard blocking the main road to the Bagram Airfield’s main gate after a suicide bombing attack Saturday  (AP Photos/Massoud Hossaini) Four Americans were killed Saturday in an attack at a U.S. airfield in Afghanistan carried out by a suicide bomber. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the explosion inside Bagram Airfield took […]

6 NATO soldiers killed in Afghanistan suicide attack were Americans

Six American troops were killed Monday in a suicide car bombing near the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan, officials said. Taliban insurgents claimed responsibility for the bombing near Bagram Airfield in northern Afghanistan, saying in a statement that their target was a joint Afghan-NATO security patrol. “We’re deeply saddened by this loss,” U.S. Army […]

A message to President Obama: Iran Involvement Killed 500 US Troops In Iraq And Afghanistan

Intelligence estimates place the number of U.S. troops killed as a result of Iranian support for militants in Iraq at approximately 500, though the amount, many suspect, is much higher. Iranian involvement behind the scenes dates back to President George W. Bush’s decision to ship thousands of troops to Iraq, Military Times reports. The idea […]

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