Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) criticized President Joe Biden’s decision to completely withdraw from Afghanistan, calling it “one of the worst foreign policy decisions” ever made in the nation’s history. “Now we are looking at the exit and over the next two days, our heroic military is doing the best they can with a…

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told Republican members in a letter Sunday that he is pushing Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to convene the House immediately with the goal of getting President Joe Biden’s evacuation deadline extended and then get answers to the many questions about the deadly Afghanistan withdrawal. “Given the grave and immediate…

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said President Joe Biden has lost the trust and confidence of the American people because of his handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal and that “there will be a day of reckoning” for the administration to explain what led to 13 U.S. service members and dozens of Afghan civilians being killed outside the…

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has announced the end of evacuation flights from Afghanistan’s Kabul international airport, with the last C-130 Hercules safely departing eight hours prior to the bomb attacks on Thursday. However, while none of the planned New Zealand evacuees were left behind within Hamid Karzai International Airport, other citizens and visa holders remain in…

EL CAJON, Calif.—Three families from a San Diego suburb have made it out of Afghanistan after they went to the country earlier this summer to visit relatives and got stuck there amid the chaos following the Taliban’s takeover, officials said Thursday. Five other families from El Cajon were still trying to get out, and U.S….

Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) pushed back against critics who say his secret trip to Afghanistan with another congressman was wrong and could have created more issues for security forces inside Afghanistan, telling a local paper on Wednesday that he doesn’t care “one bit about anonymous quotes from Washington” when he is “saving the lives of our allies.” He told The Boston…

U.S. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) pushed back against critics who say his secret trip to Afghanistan with another congressman was wrong and could have created more issues for security forces inside Afghanistan, telling a newspaper on Aug. 25 that he doesn’t care “one bit about anonymous quotes from Washington” when he’s “saving the lives of our allies.” The Democrat…

WARSAW, Poland—Poland and Belgium ended their evacuations from Afghanistan, but other European nations vowed Wednesday to press on for as long as possible, as the clock ticks down on a dramatic airlift of people fleeing Taliban rule ahead of a full American withdrawal. President Joe Biden said he will stick to his Aug. 31 deadline…

Approximately 1,500 Americans remain in Afghanistan after some 4,500 have been evacuated, a top U.S. official said Wednesday. Evacuation efforts launched on Aug. 14, after the Taliban terrorist group took over the country. On that date, there were as many as 6,000 Americans in Afghanistan who wanted to leave the country, U.S. Secretary of State…

The United States has evacuated more than 4,000 American passport holders plus their families from Afghanistan in the ongoing airlift from Kabul, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday. “We expect that number to grow in coming days,” Kirby said. There was a delay in reporting the figures because U.S. officials were focused on getting…