September 13, 2021 Blinken acknowledges Americans still stranded in Afghanistan 2 weeks after withdrawal Roughly 100 American citizens who want to leave Afghanistan remain in the country as of the end of last week, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said during congressional testimony Monday.
September 13, 2021 GOP Rep. McCaul asks if Putin threatened Biden, Blinken dodges question McCaul, the ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, asked Blinken if it was true that the Russian president had “threatened” Biden regarding intelligence installations in the region.
September 13, 2021 Blinken hearing: Democrats rush to defend Biden's deadly Afghanistan withdrawal Democrats on Monday emphatically defended President Biden’s hasty military withdrawal from Afghanistan during a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, in which Secretary of State Antony Blinken was grilled over the administration’s handling of the exit.
September 13, 2021 Sam Brown: I almost died serving in Afghanistan. Blinken needs to answer these 5 questions Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s testimony to Congress this week is the first opportunity for the American people to hold the Biden administration accountable under oath.
September 13, 2021 Blinken to face grilling from Congress on Afghanistan withdrawal Secretary of State Antony Blinken will appear before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Monday afternoon, and is sure to face grilling over the evacuation from Afghanistan following the U.S. military withdrawal.
September 13, 2021 Biden outpacing predecessors with ambassadorships for donors, political supporters A majority of President Biden's nominees to ambassadorships thus far have been political appointees, frequently for big Democratic donors and key party players, at a rate higher than his predecessors.
September 12, 2021 Taliban: Women can study in gender-segregated universities Women in Afghanistan can continue to study in universities, including at post-graduate levels, but classrooms will be gender-segregated and Islamic dress is compulsory, the Taliban government's new higher education minister said Sunday.
September 12, 2021 Newt Gingrich: Biden's Afghanistan surrender – who will be held accountable for this national disgrace? Plenty of people have pointed out what went wrong in Afghanistan, but far too few people have asked who should now be held accountable for this national disgrace.
September 12, 2021 Biden’s ‘reckless withdrawal’ from Afghanistan sets up ‘path to another 9/11’: Rep. Waltz U.S. Reps. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., and Michael McCaul, R-Texas, blasted Biden over his "reckless" withdrawal from Afghanistan and the likelihood that terrorism will once again rise in the region as a consequence.
September 12, 2021 'No Americans left behind' in Afghanistan was a ‘blatant lie’: Lt. Col. Oliver North Lt. Col. Oliver North torches the Biden administration for its scrambled Afghanistan exit that left Americans and allies behind.
