The two senior generals in charge of the US military during the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 both blamed the State Department for not sooner ordering a “noncombatant evacuation operation” for remaining US citizens in Afghanistan in a congressional hearing on Tuesday. “It is my assessment that that decision came too late,” retired Gen. Mark Milley, former Joint Chiefs chairman, said at the House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. Retired Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie, former commander of US...
Retired generals Mark Milley and Frank McKenzie, who oversaw evacuation of Afghanistan, said it was poorly plannedThe top two US generals who oversaw the evacuation of Afghanistan as it fell to the Taliban in August 2021 blamed the Biden administration for the chaotic departure, telling lawmakers on Tuesday that it inadequately planned for the evacuation and did not order it in time.The rare testimony by the two retired generals publicly exposed for the first time the strain and differences the...
When President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, one of the most pressing decisions facing him was what to do about his predecessor’s plan to pull all U.S. troops out of Afghanistan. As different as Biden was from former President Donald Trump, they both shared an intense desire to bring an end to the […]
The former top military chief Gen. Mark Milley and former head of U.S. Central Command testified before Congress Tuesday on policy failures by the Biden administration to adequately plan for or direct an evacuation in time to avoid the chaotic final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. The final two weeks of the U.S. presence was marred by a deadly Abbey Gate suicide bombing in Kabul that took the lives of 13 service members. The two generals testified as part of a long-term...
The former top military chief Gen. Mark Milley and former head of U.S. Central Command testified before Congress Tuesday on policy failures by the Biden administration to adequately plan for or direct an evacuation in time to avoid the chaotic final days of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan.
The Islamic State group is a “very serious threat to us all”, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said. “We firmly condemn, we consider absolutely intolerable the attack that took place in Moscow,” he said. “And we encourage all countries to co-operate with each other in order to make sure that ISIS will not have …
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Fox News host Laura Ingraham analyzes top military leaders' breakdown of President Biden’s "disastrous" Afghanistan withdrawal at Tuesday's congressional hearing on "The Ingraham Angle." LAURA INGRAHAM: Thanks to House Republicans and Gold Star families who refused to take silence for an answer, former Biden officials were forced to sit and answer questions today on that disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal. Now, without naming names, the generals denied they were at fault. JOY BEHAR SCOLDS...
Timothy Snyder says former RNC chair ‘tried to disassemble our democracy’ and should not have been invited to take up positionThe former Republican National Committee chair turned NBC politics analyst Ronna McDaniel “tried to disassemble our democracy” by supporting Donald Trump’s electoral fraud lies and should not be given such a media role, a leading historian said amid uproar over the appointment.“What NBC has done is they’ve invited into what should be a normal framework someone who doesn’t...
Recent immigrants reflect on the upheaval in their lives since the US pulled out in 2021: ‘They left us and our lives in danger’With the Afghan new year, or Nowruz, falling during the month of Ramadan this year, Afghans and Afghan Americans around the US who celebrated while fasting prepared with a few traditional dishes to share after sundown last week.Zuhra, 30, had some of her relatives over to her house in Santa Ana, California. She decorated her dining table green, to celebrate spring, and...
Two former top generals testified to Congress about the "strategic failure" to prevent a Taliban takeover.