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Families of 13 U.S. troops killed during disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal awarded Congressional Gold Medals

Speaker Mike Johnson awarded the families of the 13 U.S. service members who were killed during the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal with Congressional Gold Medals on Tuesday. Images of the 13 American service members who died in the suicide bombing at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Afghanistan sit on display ahead of a Gold Medal Ceremony in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda …

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Today in History: December 7, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

Associated Press

Today in history: On Dec. 7, 1941, the Empire of Japan launched an air raid on the U.S. Navy base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, killing more than 2,300 Americans. Share Share Copy Link copied Email Facebook X Reddit LinkedIn Pinterest Flipboard Print In 1972, America’s last crewed moon mission to date was launched as Apollo 17 blasted off from …

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2 years, 3 months ago

A year later, communities find ways to honor 13 service members killed in Kabul airport bombing

LA Times

Most of them were based at Camp Pendleton, but they came from all over America, from small towns and suburbs. The 13 U.S. service members killed in the Kabul airport bombing are being remembered with memorials of various kinds — charity foundations, renamed streets, a mural — in places like Rancho Cucamonga; Berlin Heights, Ohio; and Lawrence, Mass. Johanny Rosario …

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2 years, 4 months ago

Inside Operation Pineapple Express - the bid by US Special Forces to save Afghans from Kabul

Daily Mail

The tireless effort by veterans to get Afghans out of Kabul as Western troops left and the Taliban continued their rampage has been documented in a harrowing new book by a former Green Beret who frantically tried to help his comrades escape - while US officials stood by. In an excerpt from his book Operation Pineapple Express, exclusively obtained by …

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2 years, 8 months ago

Hell at Abbey Gate: Chaos, confusion and death in the final days of the War in Afghanistan

Raw Story

On the afternoon of Aug. 26, 17-year-old Shabir Ahmad Mohammadi huddled with his family by a mosque near the Kabul airport. Urban said the U.S. didn’t disclose the specific timing of its departure for safety reasons, but it “took great pains to ensure” that the Afghan military knew it was going to leave. One senior State Department official, speaking anonymously, …

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3 years, 3 months ago

From Taliban-led military rule to West-backed democracy, Pashtuns have always dominated Afghanistan's politics

Firstpost

Many of the new acting ministers as well as former presidents and leaders, including Hamid Karzai and Ashraf Ghani, belong to the dominant ethnic tribe of the nation On Tuesday, the Taliban appointed Mohammad Hasan Akhund, a close aide to the group’s late founder Mullah Omar, as head of Afghanistan’s new caretaker government, weeks after it took control of the …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Mullah Hassan to head proposed Taliban govt in Afghanistan with Baradar as his deputy: Report

India Today

Mullah Mohammad Hasan Akhund, the chief of the Taliban's powerful decision-making body 'Rehbari Shura', has been named as Afghanistan's new head of state by the insurgent group's top leader Mullah Hebatullah Akhundzada, according to a Pakistani media report. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Chairman of Taliban's Political Office in Doha, and Mullah Abdus Salam will work as deputies of Mullah Hasan …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Photos: Tanks, helicopters, artillery: See what the U.S. left behind in Afghanistan

LA Times

When Taliban fighters rode triumphantly into Kabul airport early Tuesday, they did so on U.S. pickup trucks, wearing American-made uniforms and brandishing American M4 and M16 rifles. A Taliban fighter raises the Taliban banner at Hamid Karzai International Airport after the U.S. withdrawal on Aug. 31. Taliban fighters stand ready as the militant group secures Hamid Karzai International Airport in …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Qatar jet carrying technical team lands in Kabul: Live

Al Jazeera

Group arrives in Afghanistan to discuss restarting Kabul airport operations after it was damaged in recent evacuations. 1 Sep 2021 - 14:05 GMT UK’s Raab says intelligence was Kabul would not fall this year The United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the intelligence assessment was that it was unlikely Kabul would fall this year as he defended his country’s …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Biden says chaotic Kabul withdrawal was a SUCCESS

Daily Mail

President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the troop withdrawal from Kabul that left 13 US service members dead was an 'extraordinary success' and blamed Donald Trump and local soldiers for the mess in Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover. President Joe Biden on Tuesday said the US troop withdrawal from Kabul was an 'extraordinary success' and blamed Donald Trump and local …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban hold mock FUNERALS for American forces: Thousands celebrate US soldiers leaving

Daily Mail

The Biden administration is considering sending economic aid to the Taliban, even as the militants hold mock funerals for American troops and NATO allies to celebrate the end of the 20-year US military intervention in Afghanistan. US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told ABC's Good Morning America that the US could send economic and developmental aid to Afghanistan if the …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban hail 'victory' as US withdraws from Afghanistan, resistance forces gear up for long war | 10 points

India Today

The Taliban declared victory on Tuesday, hours after the last US plane took off from the Kabul airport, marking the end of America's longest war. READ | Major General Chris Donahue -- the last American to leave Afghanistan The Taliban took full control of the Hamid Karzai airport as the US withdrawal concluded. Victory belongs to all Afghans, say Taliban: …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban declares victory as Afghans assess their future after West’s exit

LA Times

For the last two weeks, Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport was the last tether for America’s war in Afghanistan, its runways the site of a frantic airlift that spirited more than 123,000 people out of the country. Taliban fighters sit in front of darkened consoles in the deserted control tower of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. At a …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Transcript: US completes Afghanistan withdrawal

Al Jazeera

In the early morning hours of August 31, the last US military plane took off from Hamid Karzai International Airport, officially ending the US’s nearly 20-year-long war in Afghanistan. – I’m going to turn the podium over to General Frank McKenzie, commander of US Central Command. And to that environment, Rear Admiral Pete Vasely and Brigadier General Farrell Sullivan of …

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3 years, 3 months ago

The 'Star Wars' robot that thwarted ISIS-K attack on US planes

Daily Mail

This is the US's sophisticated 'Star Wars robot' tasked with shooting down missiles fired by jihadist terrorists at Kabul airport - where the last American planes are preparing to leave following Afghanistan's fall to the Taliban. Some fell short into the city, while others were intercepted by missile defences, American officials said There were no immediate reports of casualties from …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Deserted roads, empty gates at Kabul airport as US withdrawal enters final stages

India Today

As the final stage of the US troops' withdrawal approaches, roads leading to the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul have become vacant, latest satellite images show. Images provided by earth imaging company Planet Labs indicate that the main entrance of the airport that had been witnessing huge traffic since August 14 has become largely unpopulated since the bombings at …

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3 years, 3 months ago

5 rockets fired at Kabul airport, repelled by air defences: Reports

India Today

As many as five rockets were fired towards the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul on Monday morning and were repelled by the air defense system installed at the airport, reports said. Third Footage- Rockets were fired through this vehicle toward Kabul airport pic.twitter.com/ACCe7IFANj — Muslim Shirzad August 30, 2021 A journalist based in Afghanistan said, "At least two rockets …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Taliban celebrates victory as last US troops leave Afghanistan

Al Jazeera

Taliban hails withdrawal of US forces as a ‘historic moment’ and says the country has now gained ‘full independence’. “It will include ongoing diplomacy in Afghanistan and coordination with partners in the region to reopen the airport allowing for continued departure for those who want to leave and delivery of humanitarian assistance to the people of Afghanistan.” 30 Aug 2021 …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Another 1,000 'could've been saved if Dominic Raab cut his holiday short'

Daily Mail

A furious blame game over the Afghanistan crisis has broken out in Whitehall, with Ministers claiming that Dominic Raab's decision to stay on holiday in the Mediterranean as Kabul fell to the Taliban meant that up to 1,000 people have not been evacuated who otherwise would have been. A Taliban Badri fighter, a 'special forces' unit, stands guard as Afghans …

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3 years, 3 months ago

US suffers deadliest day in Afghanistan since 2011 after Kabul Airport suicide bomb kills 13 marines

Daily Mail

The US has suffered the worst loss of life in Afghanistan in a decade after two suspected suicide bombers killed at least 13 US troops near the Kabul airport Thursday. Thursday's blasts killed at least 13 US troops, including 11 Marines, a Navy medic, and another service member screening evacuees at airport gates The suicide bombings were carried out by …

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3 years, 3 months ago

Photos: Deadly attack outside Kabul airport

LA Times

A bomb went off near the entrance to Kabul’s airport Thursday, ripping through crowds of Afghans and foreign nationals waiting for evacuation from the country. Taliban fighters secure the outer perimeter in plain sight of the American forces that control the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. A C-17 Globemaster takes off as Taliban fighters secure the airport’s outer …

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3 years, 3 months ago

The final betrayal: The Afghan translators who helped Britain but can't make it inside Kabul airport

Daily Mail

Desperate translators last night told the Mail they feared they were being left to die in Kabul, unable to escape Afghanistan as the evacuation drive headed into its final hours. Hundreds of people gather near an evacuation control checkpoint during ongoing evacuations at Hamid Karzai International Airport, in Kabul Pressed by a Tory backbencher, Mr Wallace added: ‘I recommend that …

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3 years, 4 months ago

US Secretary of State Blinken mistakens Ghani as Hamid Karzai in interview slip-up | Watch

India Today

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a TV interview, mistakenly referred to ousted Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani as Hamid Karzai, who led Afghanistan’s first government after the Taliban were overthrown in 2001 and was president until 2014. While speaking on the evacuations in Afghanistan, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, in a slip-up, said Hamid Karzai fled the country …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Taliban warns of ‘consequences’ if U.S. extends evacuation past August

LA Times

People wanting to flee Afghanistan continue to wait around Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Monday. William Urban said no U.S. or coalition forces were hurt in what he described as a “brief exchange of gunfire outside the north gate of Hamid Karzai International Airport.” “The incident appeared to begin when an unknown hostile actor fired upon Afghan security …

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Families of 13 U.S. troops killed during disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal awarded Congressional Gold Medals

Today in History: December 7, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor

A year later, communities find ways to honor 13 service members killed in Kabul airport bombing

Inside Operation Pineapple Express - the bid by US Special Forces to save Afghans from Kabul

Hell at Abbey Gate: Chaos, confusion and death in the final days of the War in Afghanistan

From Taliban-led military rule to West-backed democracy, Pashtuns have always dominated Afghanistan's politics

Mullah Hassan to head proposed Taliban govt in Afghanistan with Baradar as his deputy: Report

Photos: Tanks, helicopters, artillery: See what the U.S. left behind in Afghanistan

Qatar jet carrying technical team lands in Kabul: Live

Biden says chaotic Kabul withdrawal was a SUCCESS

Taliban hold mock FUNERALS for American forces: Thousands celebrate US soldiers leaving

Taliban hail 'victory' as US withdraws from Afghanistan, resistance forces gear up for long war | 10 points

Taliban declares victory as Afghans assess their future after West’s exit

Transcript: US completes Afghanistan withdrawal

The 'Star Wars' robot that thwarted ISIS-K attack on US planes

Deserted roads, empty gates at Kabul airport as US withdrawal enters final stages

5 rockets fired at Kabul airport, repelled by air defences: Reports

Taliban celebrates victory as last US troops leave Afghanistan

Another 1,000 'could've been saved if Dominic Raab cut his holiday short'

US suffers deadliest day in Afghanistan since 2011 after Kabul Airport suicide bomb kills 13 marines

Photos: Deadly attack outside Kabul airport

The final betrayal: The Afghan translators who helped Britain but can't make it inside Kabul airport

US Secretary of State Blinken mistakens Ghani as Hamid Karzai in interview slip-up | Watch

Taliban warns of ‘consequences’ if U.S. extends evacuation past August