Afghanistan War

Republican presidential nominee and Marine veteran Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) on Wednesday had some pointed words for Vice President Kamala Harris over the botched U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan under her and President Joe Biden’s administration.

U.S. Central Command has concluded that the sniper team at Kabul did not have the terrorist in its sights before the attack.

A U.S. Marine Corp veteran has been reunited with a bomb-sniffing dog he served with in Afghanistan after she was kidnapped by the Taliban.

An Islamic hate preacher reportedly called for Muslims to target British troops in response to the claimed war kill count of Prince Harry.

Prince Harry should face justice for war crimes, the militant Taliban demanded after he admitted to killing 25 people in the Afghan war.

Afghan refugees have reportedly refused to move to Scotland or Wales for fear that the countries are “too cold” and don’t speak English.

MADRID (AP) – A plane provided by the Spanish government has brought 294 more Afghan refugees via Pakistan to Spain, authorities said Thursday, bringing to 3,900 the number evacuated by Madrid since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan last year.

Military leaders claimed that the August 26, 2021, attack in Afghanistan that killed 13 American service members at the Hamid Karzai International Airport’s Abbey Gate was “not preventable.” However, sources who were on the ground, as well as a recently released Army investigative report, say that President Joe Biden’s order to evacuate as many people as possible contributed to the attack.

Former prime minister Tony Blair has said in an interview that he thought his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq were the “right thing” to do at the time.

President Joe Biden spent his first year as president making one embarrassing mistake after another on issues important to Americans and while representing the United States.

Some of the thousands of Afghan refugees who have been resettled in the UK since the Allied withdrawal pose a security risk. It could be a few of them or it could be a lot of them but we don’t know how many because, we learn from a Freedom of Information request made by Breitbart’s Jack Montgomery, the Home Office is apparently too embarrassed to tell us, claiming it would not be in “the public interest”.

The British government has told Breitbart London it knows how many Afghans airlifted to the UK as evacuees were on watch lists or had previously been deported from the country — but insists it is not in the public interest to reveal it.

The government of Bulgaria has announced that it will be sending 350 troops to the border with Turkey, as the number of mostly Afghan migrants crossing illegally has tripled this year.

An email written by a U.S. diplomat and published online by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) appeared to show there was no security vetting of those allowed to board United States military aircraft and evacuate Kabul as part of the Biden administration’s hastily called non-combatant evacuation operation.

What some U.S. forces thought would be 96 hours on the ground in Afghanistan evacuating U.S. embassy staff turned into 16 days.

MADRID (AP) – Spain’s defence ministry has completed the evacuation of another 160 Afghans who had initially been left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) – Greece will increase the number of border guards on the country’s border with Turkey, fearing a spike in illegal migration linked to the crisis in Afghanistan, officials said Monday.

MADRID (AP) – Spain has started a new evacuation operation to extract more Afghans and their families left behind following the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

Former British defence minister Johnny Mercer has warned that Boris Johnson’s government has evacuated some Afghans “we really should have”, while many deserving cases have been abandoned.

Last week’s hearings were a discouraging reminder that the Democrats who lead Congress aren’t interested in doing much that would make a Democratic president look bad.

Austin admitted that the United States military may have killed up to 10 people, including seven children, in a drone strike in Kabul.

The European Union needs to build the “political will” to craft an Amry of its own, President Ursula von der Leyen said on Wednesday.

Afghan interpreters airlifted to Britain are having to be guarded because of “Taliban sympathisers” among the evacuees, reports have revealed. 

Joe Biden is campaigning with Gavin Newsom after abandoning Californians in Afghanistan, Jessica Patterson, the California GOP chairwoman, said.

Blinken testifies on the botched Afghanistan withdrawal on Monday at 2 p.m. ET in front of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

After 9/11, it seemed that we were in a battle against evil. And without a doubt, Osama Bin Laden was evil. And yet strangely, the American government chose not to focus on him or even on al Qaeda. 9/11 was a test, some of which America passed and some of which it flunked. Here are five lessons to learn.

Greg Ebben, senior producer for SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily, recalled how 9/11 contributed to “a little bit of a 180” in his life.

The strategic failure by Joe Biden to withdraw from Afghanistan in an orderly fashion and the subsequent collapse of the expensively groomed Afghan state will give a confidence shot to “lone wolf” terrorists in the West, the director-general of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency has said.

Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has marked the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks by saying that it proved “Christian civilisation” must be defended at all times, and vowing to stop mass migration from facilitating further terror.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has published a slightly bizarre video message to mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11, claiming Joe Biden’s disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan will “only strengthen our determination to remember those who were taken from us”.

The European Union border agency Frontex is preparing for a surge of Afghan asylum seekers to make their way to Europe.

A former Afghan special forces commando airlifted to Britain has been arrested in a dawn raid on a Manchester quarantine hotel, according to reports. 

Attorney General Ken Paxton (R-TX) warned that Texas is unable to verify what screening measures, if any, were applied to Afghan migrants and refugees seeking resettlement in America.

EU President Charles Michel said Brussels will seek to increase “strategic autonomy” in the wake of Joe Biden’s botched Afghan withdrawal.

Hartzler asked for the House to scrap the partisan investigation on January 6 and investigate the botched Afghanistan withdrawal instead.

The Taliban said they want Islamic law both at home and abroad and warned Western forces they will face another 20-year quagmire in an impromptu meeting with The Telegraph.