Several thousand ISIS-K terrorist members escaped Afghan prisons when the country’s government fell and the Taliban took over earlier this month, said Pentagon spokesman John Kirby on Friday. “Clearly it’s in the thousands,” Kirby said in response to a question about the number of ISIS terrorists who escaped in recent days. The Taliban, he said, emptied…

President Joe Biden said that the administration is hoping for the U.S.-led Afghanistan evacuation to end by the self-imposed Aug. 31 deadline, noting that there is still “a long way to go and a lot could still go wrong.” Speaking on Sunday at the White House, Biden said there have been “discussions among” the White…