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Sen. Thom Tillis: Mr. Biden, 70,000 need to get out of Afghanistan. Don’t let the Taliban dictate terms
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In an address to the nation on Friday, the president pledged that he will see to it that all Americans will be evacuated from Afghanistan. However, in a call with U.S. senators just an hour later, a high-ranking offi...
America’s top general meets with Taliban, calls for a reduction in violence
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Washington America's top military officer, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley, met with representatives of the Taliban in Qatar during an unannounced trip this week through the Middle East. Mille...
The Taliban have declared victory. Now they must reckon with a country freefalling into chaos
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The last American military flight left the airport and disappeared into the Kabul sky on Monday -- and minutes later, the Taliban flooded the streets around the city's last exit point, filling the night with celebra...
Afghan women react to Taliban allowing girls back in school as fears persist for their safety
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Such restrictions include separation of men and women. Women must wear an abaya robe and niqab covering most of the face. Women must also end their lesson five minutes earlier than men to stop them from mingling outs...
Afghanistan women’s rights protester says Taliban violence won’t stop future demonstrations
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"It might be quite challenging for everybody to go out and to still resist and do demonstrations, but that will not stop people," the activist said. "That will not stop women." The woman, whose identity Fox News is n...
Taliban accused of murdering pregnant Afghan policewoman in front of her family
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The Taliban murdered a pregnant policewoman in front of her family on Saturday night, according to her son. Her death, in the central Afghanistan province of Ghor, adds to mounting concerns about the repression of w...
Taliban websites mysteriously go dark
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It wasn’t clear why the websites went down. The Pashto, Urdu, Arabic, English and Dari sites were protected by San Francisco-based Cloudflare, which shields the site host from being revealed to the public. Cloudflare...
Biden planning to allow some Afghan civil servants employed by Taliban exemption from terror bans
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The draft U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) planning document, reviewed by Fox News, outlines how the Department of Homeland Security is planning on issuing a memorandum to allow Afghan civil servants...
Taliban name deputy ministers, double down on all-male team
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The international community has warned that it will judge the Taliban by their actions, and that recognition of a Taliban-led government would be linked to the treatment of women and minorities. In their previous ru...
Taliban capture third Afghanistan capital in as many days
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Taliban insurgents seized the city of Kunduz in Northern Afghanistan on Sunday. Kunduz is the third provincial capital to fall to the Taliban in three days, but it is the first major city taken since the Taliban star...
Fox Nation Patriot Awards honors vet who led secret mission to save Afghans from Taliban threat
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As the country plunged into chaos, Former Green Beret Scott Mann led a secret mission in the wee hours of the night to sneak at least 500 people, including women and children, into the secured zone in Afghanistan. "...
Taliban frees thousands of prisoners from former US base: report
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U.S. forces handed control of the airfield, located on the outskirts of Kabul, over to the Afghan government in early July. Afghan forces at the base surrendered to the Taliban on Sunday, as other Taliban troops stor...
Afghan translators, families fear Taliban takeover as they try escaping to US
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Since 2012, Hazeen has worked with Americans as a translator as they interrogated high-value terror suspects including members of the Taliban. "I believe that as soon they are here, they will chase people like me w...
ISIS-K: What to know about Taliban rival that may pose a threat to Afghanistan evacuation
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The group referred to as ISIS-K is the "Khorasan" branch of the Islamic State, located in Afghanistan. The insurgent group formed after a faction within the Taliban splintered and pledged allegiance to Abu Bakr al-Ba...
Hannity: Taliban knew they’d be ‘obliterated’ if they reared their head under Trump
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"In July, Biden knew things were going bad…the Intel community, and we have been reporting this, has been correct from day one," Hannity said. "That's why the CIA left six, seven weeks earlier. But instead of stoppin...
Rebecca Grant: Battle for Afghanistan – Taliban could be defeated by this brutal strategy
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The battle isn’t looking good. Taliban offensives have taken 12 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals since last week. The Afghanistan Army head was fired by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday. Ghani and t...