Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) John Sopko testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Wednesday and complained about the “odor of mendacity” surrounding everything related to Afghanistan. Sopko said U.S. officials have “routinely lied” to the American public about numerous issues related to war and reconstruction in Afghanistan.
Islamic extremism is still a primary driver of Christian persecution in eight out of the ten most dangerous places for Christians.
Christian persecution around the globe reached an unprecedented level at the end of 2019, with over 260 million Christians facing “high levels of persecution,” Open Doors revealed Wednesday.
Former Vice President Joe Biden said during the Democrat debate on Tuesday that there was a difference between “combat troops” and “Special Forces.” “There’s a difference between combat troops and leaving special forces in position,” he said when discussing what
Flags will fly at half-staff in in Fayetteville, North Carolina in honor of two soldiers who were killed over the weekend in Afghanistan.
On Thursday’s broadcast of Fox News Radio’s “Guy Benson Show,” Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) defended the strike on Qasem Soleimani and called for Congress to “revisit” the AUMFs in Iraq and Afghanistan and vote on a new one. Roy said,
Army Green Beret Sgt. 1st Class Michael James Goble was buried Thursday, surrounded by several hundred family members and friends.
People from around the country who oppose war with Iran will speak out Thursday evening in a series of protests beginning around 5 p.m. local time.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk sparred with Representative Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) on Thursday’s episode of The Charlie Kirk Show, where he told Crenshaw that he believes “it’s long past time to end the war in Afghanistan,” and asked, “do you think we should ever end the current war in Afghanistan?” to which the congressman responded, “No.”
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday President Donald Trump and his administration’s Iran strategy has spared American lives.
Trump’s campaign says former Vice President Joe Biden has been lying nonstop about foreign policy in recent days in an attempt to revise history in his political favor.
An anonymous Taliban official told the Associated Press on Monday that the terrorist group had agreed to a “peace deal” that would result in the release of 5,000 jihadists. The next day, an official Taliban spokesman denied that they were close to signing any deal with the government of Afghanistan.
Afghanistan politician Razaq Ahmadzai, a close ally of President Ashraf Ghani, has been accused of actively collecting pension payments from the Swedish government for his mother who died in 2017. According to the accusations, the Afghan’s mother was not reported to the
The remains of an American soldier who was killed in Afghanistan earlier this week were transported home to the U.S. on Christmas morning.
A Swedish court has reduced the prison sentence for a 20-year-old Afghan who murdered his 69-year-old teacher, who he was also in a sexual relationship with at the time, because of the migrant’s mental health issues.
An American service member was killed in action in Afghanistan on Sunday, just two days before Christmas, the Pentagon announced.
Pentagon leaders pushed back against the idea that the department’s leaders have not been transparent on progress in the Afghanistan War.
A 27-year-old migrant man was given a short five-year term by a Finnish court for sex attacks against six victims, including an underage girl.
The Afghanistan military is getting more than three times the American taxpayer funding than the construction of a wall on the United States-Mexico border, thanks to a Republican-Democrat spending package.
In a recent podcast interview, Buttigieg said that he would not set a timeline for withdrawal, insisting that it was not responsible.
The U.S. goal of reinventing Afghanistan into a Western-style centralized democracy and a free-market economy from a tribal society that was unsuited for either by throwing billions of American-taxpayer dollars was doomed to fail, the Washington Post revealed Monday in a multi-series investigation.
The New York Police Department’s (NYPD) K9 units gathered supplies Wednesday for military dog units deployed to the Middle East during Christmas.
Newsweek recently demoted an editor — news which follows the firing of a reporter behind a highly inaccurate story which stated that President Trump was “tweeting” and “golfing” on Thanksgiving when he was actually en route to Afghanistan to surprise U.S. troops.
Newsweek has fired the journalist who was responsible for the false story that President Donald Trump spent Thanksgiving “tweeting” and “golfing,” when in fact the president was secretly traveling to Afghanistan to surprise U.S. troops for the holiday.
On Friday’s “MSNBC Live,” Representative Robin Kelly (D-IL) stated that President Trump’s statement about re-opening peace talks with the Taliban is “a ploy” by the president and “I just don’t trust why he does the things that he does.” Kelly
A group of 62 Islamic State fighters, including 30 Pakistanis and two Turkish nationals, surrendered to Afghan military forces in the Nangarhar area on Tuesday. The Afghan government, which is busy arranging extradition for captured foreign nationals, said the latest in a series of surrenders indicated ISIS is losing its ability to effectively resist the national military.
Friday on “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) weighed in on the peace talks with the Taliban, which President Donald Trump revealed on Thursday have been resumed. Cotton said the Taliban needs to renounce violence, renounce its ties to
President Donald Trump mocked Newsweek after they reported Thursday he spent Thanksgiving golfing and tweeting. In fact, the president was secretly traveling to Afghanistan to visit deployed American troops.
“Together, we will succeed,” he said. “We will never forget that 9/11 brought us, and we will never permit the repetition of 9/11 again. God bless you. God bless the President.”
President Donald Trump has made a surprise visit to Afghanistan to address U.S. troops on Thanksgiving Thursday.
