Afghanistan
Biden review of chaotic Afghan withdrawal blames Trump By ZEKE MILLER and NOMAAN MERCHANT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden’s administration on Thursday laid the blame on his predecessor, President Donald Trump, for the deadly and chaotic 2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that brought about some of the darkest moments of…
Rylee McCollum, a 2019 graduate of Jackson Hole High School, was one of the 13 U.S. service members who were killed in a suicide bomb attack Thursday in Afghanistan. At least 18 more were injured, U.S. officials said, making it the deadliest day for U.S. troops in 10 years. Wyoming Superintendent of Public Instruction Jillian…
Since President Biden was inaugurated in January, America has become a different country. At the center of that change has been Biden’s dismantling of former President Trump’s policies. One of the most damaging results of this is the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Hundreds of thousands of foreign nationals have been allowed to come…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration said Wednesday that it is prepared to begin evacuation flights for Afghan interpreters and translators who aided the U.S. military effort in the nearly 20-year war. The Operation Allies Refuge flights out of Afghanistan during the last week of July will be available first for special immigrant visa applicants…
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Thursday said the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan will conclude on Aug. 31, saying “speed is safety” as the United States seeks to end the nearly 20-year war. “We did not go to Afghanistan to nation build,” Biden said in a speech to update his administration’s ongoing efforts…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Without coming right out and saying it, President Joe Biden seems ready to let lapse a May 1 deadline for completing a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan. Orderly withdrawals take time, and Biden is running out of it. Biden has inched so close to the deadline that his indecision amounts almost…
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