(John Solomon) With stunning speed, the Taliban broke through Kabul’s defenses on Sunday and entered the capital city to complete its takeover of Afghanistan after a 20-year American-led occupancy, negotiating for a complete surrender by the country’s government in return for promises of a peaceful transition.
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Biden’s Back in Afghanistan: US Deploys Bombers and Gunships to Fight Advancing Taliban Terrorists; Embassy Urges Americans to Leave Country “Immediately”
(Julian Conradson) Shortly after announcing the departure of US troops from Afghanistan, Biden has deployed B-52 bombers and AC-130 Spectre gunships in a desperate attempt to slow the advances of Taliban terrorists who have taken over half of the country.
June Was Deadliest Month In Afghanistan In Two Decades Amid US Exit
(Jason Ditz) A major Taliban offensive has been raging in Afghanistan, particularly in the north, for weeks on end. The latest figures from Afghanistan’s TOLOnews puts June at a troubling height of the war, the deadliest single month in 20 years.
Trump: ‘I Wish Joe Biden Wouldn’t Use September 11th as the Date to Withdraw Our Troops from Afghanistan’
(Annaliese Levy) Former President Donald Trump is criticizing President Joe Biden for selecting the 20th anniversary of 9/11 to pull out the U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Afghan Security Forces Kill Senior Al-Qaeda Leader Wanted by FBI
(Staff Writer) Afghan security forces have killed Abu Muhsin al-Masri, a senior al-Qaeda leader who was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Most Wanted Terrorists list, Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) said in a tweet late on Saturday.
Ron Paul: The Afghanistan War is the Crime of the Century
(Ron Paul) “We were devoid of a fundamental understanding of Afghanistan. We didn’t know what we were doing.” So said Gen. Douglas Lute, who oversaw the US war on Afghanistan under Presidents Bush and Obama. Eighteen years into the longest war in US history, we are finally finding out, thanks to thousands of pages of classified interviews on the war published by the Washington Post last week, that General Lute’s cluelessness was shared by virtually everyone involved in the war.
Pentagon Dismisses Afghanistan Papers: Look Forward, Not Back
(Jason Ditz) Pentagon officials are continuing to react dismissively to questions about the Afghanistan Papers, and the revelation that the Pentagon systematically lied about the state of the war. This is leading the experts to conclude that the Pentagon does not intend to change its policies.
“Undeniable Evidence”: Explosive Classified Docs Reveal Afghan War Mass Deception
(Zero Hedge) In what’s already being hailed as a defining and explosive “Pentagon papers” moment, a cache of previously classified documents obtained by The Washington Post show top Pentagon leaders continuously lied to the public about the “progress” of the now eighteen-year long Afghan war.