Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani is currently residing in the United Arab Emirates, officials of the Gulf nation confirmed on Wednesday. “The UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation can confirm that the UAE has welcomed President Ashraf Ghani and his family into the country on humanitarian grounds,” the UAE ministry of foreign affairs said…
US Troops Fired Shots in Air at Kabul Airport, Pentagon Says
American troops fired shots at Kabul’s airport in a bid to control crowds trying to enter the facility, the U.S. Department of Defense said Wednesday. The shots were largely fired around gates being guarded by U.S. troops as evacuation flights take off and a mix of Americans and Afghans are processed into the facility, Pentagon…
Biden’s Surrender
Commentary After searing criticism from Democrats and Republicans about how he has mishandled the withdrawal of the remaining American forces, diplomats, their families, and contractors from Afghanistan, President Biden interrupted his Camp David retreat to return to the White House for a speech in which he blamed the Trump administration for its failed policies relating to…
America’s Afghanistan Disaster Didn’t Have to Happen
Commentary In the first two weeks of August, America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan became a humiliating rout. Make no mistake, the United States has suffered a major diplomatic and psychological defeat that will have resonance throughout the world. Understand that I think that since 9/11, America’s essential mission in Afghanistan has been what I call Guard…
Biden’s Dithering Doomed Afghanis
Commentary For months, President Joe Biden has opened the borders to Hispanic illegals, but he has turned a deaf ear to our Afghan allies desperate to get to America. Some 20,000 pro-American Afghanis and their families are in danger of being killed by the Taliban because Biden refused to speed up the bureaucratic, 14-step visa…
Debacle in Afghanistan Symptom of Confusion at Home
Commentary President Joe Biden was right in his speech to the nation about our withdrawal from Afghanistan, that a long legacy of American involvement there preceded him. But across the board, in domestic as well as foreign policy, any new president inherits realities that precede him. The issue confronting every president is what principles and…
New UK Resettlement Scheme for Afghans May Expand: Home Secretary
Home Secretary Priti Patel has defended the number cap on a new Afghan resettle scheme, saying the government will need to lay the groundwork first. Patel also suggested that the cap is not absolute. The Afghan citizens’ resettlement scheme, which was announced on Wednesday, is expected to resettle 5,000 Afghan nationals in the UK in the first…
‘This Is Manifestly Not Saigon’ and Our Society of Lies
Commentary I wrote about the moral, diplomatic, international, and American tragedy of abandoning Afghanistan a few months ago, so here I will address only the comment by Secretary of State Antony Blinken on ABC’s “This Week”—and what it says about our country. Commenting on the American helicopters picking up Americans from the roof of the…
Taliban Violently Break Up Protest in Afghanistan as Thousands Try to Flee Kabul
Taliban terrorists fired at a protest in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday as a stampede at a gate to the airport in Kabul left another 17 injured. Dozens of people gathered in the eastern city of Jalalabad to raise the national flag a day before Afghanistan’s Independence Day, which commemorates the end of British rule in…
UK to Resettle up to 20,000 Afghans Under New Scheme
The UK is planning to give sanctuary to about 5,000 at-risk Afghan citizens by next year and up to 20,000 long-term, the government has announced. Western countries are currently scrambling to evacuate their citizens and their Afghan allies from Afghanistan, and preparing for an incoming refugee crisis as the future of the country is unclear with…
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