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President Joe Biden on Thursday delivered a speech during a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in honor of Veterans Day, marking the first peace-time remembrance of fallen troops in more than two decades. “Our veterans represent the best of America. You are the very spine of America, not just the backbone. You’re the spine of this country. And all of us — all of us — owe you. And so, on Veterans Day and every day, we honor that great debt and recommit ourselves to keeping our sacred obligation as a nation to honor what you’ve done,” Biden said in his address. Veterans Day is...
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Reps. Seth Moulton (D-Massachusetts) and Peter Meijer (R-Michigan) visited Afghanistan last week as the evacuation process continued in Kabul. Following their trip to Afghanistan, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) wrote a letter urging other lawmakers not to visit Afghanistan. “Given the urgency of this situation, the desire of some Members to travel to Afghanistan and the surrounding areas is understandable and reflective of the high priority that we place on the lives of those on the ground,” Pelosi said. “Member travel to Afghanistan and the surrounding countries would unnecessarily...
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The Pentagon has announced Sunday that a U.S. military drone strike in Kabul, successfully blew up a van that had “multiple suicide bombers” inside. The department believed them to be affiliated with the Islamic State in Afghanistan (ISIS-K). “U.S. military forces conducted a self-defense unmanned over-the-horizon airstrike today on a vehicle in Kabul, eliminating an imminent ISIS-K threat to Hamid Karzai International airport,” Bill Urban, a spokesperson for U.S. Central Command, announced in a statement. “We are confident we successfully hit the target. Significant secondary explosions from...
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As the U.S. completed its full evacuation from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden on Thursday insisted that his decision to end the 20-year war was an “extraordinary success.” “My fellow Americans, the war in Afghanistan is now over. I’m the fourth president who has faced the issue of whether and when to end this war,” Biden said in a 26-minute speech from the White House. “When I was running for president, I made a commitment that I would end this war, and today I have honored that commitment. It was time to be honest with the American people; we no longer had a clear purpose in an open-ended m...
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On Sunday, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden paid respects to the U.S. service members who were killed by the suicide bombers at Kabul airport on Thursday. The Bidens joined the dignified transfer ceremony along with the military personnel and the families of the fallen. In the final few days of the U.S. military in Afghanistan, the 13 young service members were among the 180 people who fell victim to the attack conducted by the terrorists affiliated with ISIS-K. “The 13 service members that we lost were heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice in service of our highest American idea...
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The U.S. officially ended its military presence in Afghanistan after 20 years of war on Monday night. Over 200 American citizens remain in the now-Taliban-controlled Kabul. On Sunday, Army Maj. Gen. William Taylor told reporters that Kabul “remains secure” and that the Hamid Karzai International Airport “is currently open for military flight operations as well as limited commercial flight operations.” President Joe Biden had deployed up to 7,000 US troops to Afghanistan, but now all of those troops have left. According to Taylor, nine American aircraft arrived at the airport in Kabul after the...
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As the U.S. government is rushing to evacuate tens of thousands of Afghans, the immigration status for these people remained unclear. To handle this huge number of incoming refugees, the Biden administration confirmed Friday that it is set to grant some temporary entry into the U.S. According to the White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Friday, the Department of Homeland Security is now working with the federal government on the process of relocating evacuated Afghans to the U.S. “Already, DHS has been working closely with agencies across government – including our military, diplomats, inte...
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On Saturday, the Pentagon announced that it successfully killed two high-profile ISIS-K targets in Afghanistan, just two days after a terrorist attack at Kabul’s airport, killing 13 U.S. service members. “I can confirm, two high profile targets were killed and one was wounded …We will continue to have the ability to defend ourselves … as needed,” Army Maj. Gen. William Taylor said Saturday. “The fact that two of these individuals are no longer walking on the face of the Earth, that’s a good thing,” Pentagon’s spokesperson John Kirby added. “We believe that we hit valid targets — bad guys who c...
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Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) is blaming both the Trump and Biden administrations’ policies for the crisis in Afghanistan. He pointedly criticized former President Donald Trump‘s deal with the Taliban in 2020. Kinzinger, an Air Force veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan, voiced these sentiments to CNN on Sunday. He repudiated the former president’s desire to take American troops out of Afghanistan “at all costs.” Kinzinger also slammed former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo for meeting with the Taliban to negotiate the deal with them. The peace deal that Trump signed in 2020 involved t...
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On Thursday night, President Joe Biden gave his remarks in response to the terrorist attack in Kabul that killed 11 U.S. soldiers. In his speech, Biden made it clear that “America will not be intimidated” and pledged to hunt down the attackers. “My heart aches for you, but I know this: we have a continued obligation, the most sacred obligation to all of you, the families of those heroes,” Biden said Friday. “We will not be deterred by terrorists. We will continue the evacuation.” “To those who carried out this attack, as well as anyone who wishes America harm know this: We will not forgive. We...
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