Afghanistan Tag

Afghanistan: U.S. Embassy Evacuates, American Citizens Left Behind, Told To “Shelter in Place”

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 15, 2021 73 Comments

Biden admin threatens Taliban with a "response" if stranded Americans are harmed. ...

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Fall of Kabul: Taliban Enter City, U.S. Diplomats Evacuate, Transition of Power Agreed

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 15, 2021 69 Comments

According to reports just breaking, the Afghan government has agreed to surrender and transition power to the Taliban....

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Afghanistan: Taliban Reaches Kabul’s Outskirts (Updates – Collapse Accelerates)

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 14, 2021 41 Comments

The AP: "Afghan government forces are collapsing even faster than U.S. military leaders thought possible."...

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Afghanistan: Biden Admin Pleads Taliban to ‘Spare’ U.S. Embassy, Russia and China Hold Joint Military Drill 

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 13, 2021 49 Comments

"In just the last 24 hours, the country’s second- and third-largest cities — Herat in the west and Kandahar in the south — have fallen to the insurgents as has the capital of the southern Helmand province...

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U.S. Intelligence: Kabul Could Fall to Taliban ‘Within 90 Days’ 

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on August 12, 2021 63 Comments

The AP: "Taliban could gain full control of the country within a few months."...

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Afghan Soldiers Flee as Northern Districts Fall to Taliban

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on July 07, 2021 32 Comments

"​Taliban fighters can be seen ...

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China Mulls Deploying Troops to Afghanistan After U.S. Pullout

Posted by Vijeta Uniyal on April 17, 2021 30 Comments

China is considering sending troops to Afghanistan after the planned U.S. military withdrawal in coming month. "China may send peacekeeping force to Afghanistan after US troops leave," the Hong Kong daily South China Morning Post reported Friday, citing senior Chinese national security experts.

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Another Anti-Trump Media Fail: “Intel still hasn’t established Russia paid Taliban ‘bounties’ to kill U.S. troops”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on September 15, 2020 15 Comments

Democrats and their media cohorts have spent the last four years throwing everything they can dream up at President Trump, hoping against hope that this time it will stick.  That this time, finally, after Russia, impeachment, Ukraine, unfounded accusations of racism, outright lie after outright lie . . . this time the latest invented anti-Trump smear will stick, the needle will move, Trump will lose support.  This time.  For sure.

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U.S. Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan has Begun

Posted by Mary Chastain on March 09, 2020 15 Comments

A U.S. official told The Associated Press that troops have started to leave Afghanistan.

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U.S., Taliban Sign Peace Deal, Taliban Pledges To Ensure Terrorists Can “never again operate from Afghan soil”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on February 29, 2020 15 Comments

On Saturday, the U.S. and the Taliban signed an historic peace agreement.  Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signed the deal but was cautious in his statements, saying that the "good feelings" will not last if there isn't concrete follow-up on the "commitments stated and promises made.”

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U.S., Taliban Reach Agreement on Reduced Violence Before Possible Peace Deal

Posted by Mary Chastain on February 21, 2020 14 Comments

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that America and the Taliban in Afghanistan have reached an agreement to reduce violence for a week. The two sides could potentially form a peace deal by the time the agreement ends.

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American University in Afghanistan Faces Uncertain Future

Posted by Mike LaChance on January 17, 2020 3 Comments

"uncertainty over future funding comes after officials at USAID raised serious concerns about AUAF’s governance and fiscal controls"...

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Newsweek Reporter Fired for Inaccurate Report About Trump Spending Thanksgiving “Tweeting and Golfing”

Posted by Fuzzy Slippers on November 30, 2019 35 Comments

As Legal Insurrection readers are aware, President Trump spent his Thanksgiving in Afghanistan serving Thanksgiving dinner to our troops and personally thanking them for their service to our great country.

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President Trump Makes Stealth Thanksgiving Trip to Troops in Afghanistan

Posted by Leslie Eastman on November 28, 2019 7 Comments

President Donald  Trump took a stealth trip to Afghanistan this Thanksgiving, to visit U.S. military troops stationed at Bagram Air Field.

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18 years later: Remembering CIA Officer Johnny “Mike” Spann, the first American killed in Afghanistan after 9/11

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 25, 2019 21 Comments

For many years, on November 25 and also Memorial Day, we have remembered Johnny Micheal Spann, a CIA Operations Officer who was the first American killed in Afghanistan after 9/11. We have told Spann's story many times, but it never gets old. Our 15th Anniversary post summed up much of what we had learned, 15th Anniversary: Johnny “Mike” Spann, first American killed in Afghanistan.

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Young Turks Host Hasan Piker Mocks Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s War Injuries, Declares America Deserved 9/11

Posted by Tyler Hummel on August 23, 2019 37 Comments

Hasan Piker, Young Turks host and nephew of Cenk Uger, has been taking heat since Wednesday for saying castigating the United States deserved the 9/11 terrorist attacks. He also mocked the injuries Texas Rep. Dan Crenshaw received while serving in Afghanistan.

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‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh, Who has Praised ISIS, Leaves Prison,

Posted by Mary Chastain on May 23, 2019 21 Comments

John Walker Lindh, a man called the "American Taliban," left a federal prison in Indiana on Thursday after 17 years behind bars. He received a 20-year sentence after he joined the Taliban in Afghanistan after 9/11. Lawmakers tried to persuade against Lindh's release even though he "will have a set of heavy restrictions placed on him."

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‘American Taliban’ John Walker Lindh scheduled for early release in May 2019

Posted by William A. Jacobson on March 26, 2019 19 Comments

Every year we remember Johnny "Mike" Spann, the CIA special operations officer who was the first American killed in Afghanistan after 9/11. Each year we discover new facts and stories, including the letter from Afghan warlord Abdul Rahdis Dostum and the memorial he dedicated in Spann’s memory, interviews with his oldest daughter Alison, and the family’s reaction to the release of Bowie Bergdahl.

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