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Since the Taliban’s unexpected success in reclaiming their country, the one thing I’ve been losing sleep over is, well, why can’t we have what they have? Are we Americans really so gaslit and demoralized by the self-anointed “adults in the room” that we dare not challenge their presence? Things are …

The suspension of the unnamed official, believed to be linked to the major data breach, was announced in a brief statement by the Ministry of Defence on Wednesday. “We have been made aware of a data breach that occurred earlier this month by the Afghan Relocation and Assistance Policy [ARAP] …

President Joe Biden had declared the Kabul airlift an “extraordinary” success, pointing to 124,000 people extracted from Afghanistan following the Taliban takeover. Fewer than 6,000 were US citizens, however, and most of the Afghans who made it onto the evacuation flights were not the translators that worked with NATO troops …

Dubbed ‘Operation Warm Welcome,’ the British government unveiled on Wednesday what it called a “significant cross-government effort,” saying Afghans arriving in the UK will receive the “vital support” needed to rebuild their lives. All Afghans who “worked closely with the British military and UK Government in Afghanistan” would, immediately upon …

Starnes’ post, made in the aftermath of two explosions at the Kabul airport on Thursday, seemingly blamed all Afghans for the carnage, which left at least 60 people dead, including 12 American servicemembers and numerous Afghan civilians. © Twitter / @toddstarnes But ethnically-misguided revenge fantasies from American talk show hosts …

The ongoing extraction of foreign nationals and locals, who used to work for the occupying forces, bears striking similarities to the previous US military failures, Laurie, who witnessed both evacuation from Cambodia and the fall of Saigon to Communist-ruled North Vietnam in 1975, said. “The panicked end of each of …

Biden was in Camp David over the weekend when the US-backed Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban took over. He returned to Washington on Monday to give a speech, after harrowing videos of Afghans mobbing US transport planes and reportedly falling to their deaths began making rounds. He took no …

An unidentified Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) official told The Intercept that the Islamist group confiscated the Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment (HIIDE) devices during its offensive push last week. The report was backed up by three former US military personnel. They told the news outlet that the portable devices …

“I know my decision will be criticized. But I would rather take all that criticism than pass this decision on to another president of the United States,” Biden explained. In essence, he was arguing that his three predecessors didn’t have the guts to make the right decision, taking a swipe …

There have been some poor decisions made about Afghanistan during the 20-year-long war but nowhere, no-how at no time has the suggestion of paying reparations to the murderous Taliban ever been considered, until it was suggested on Sunday by the Stop The War Coalition. A ragtag collective of clueless no-hopers …