President Biden Mocked for ‘Highly Unlikely’ Prediction That Taliban Would Overrun Afghanistan

The grueling nearly two-decade long U.S. intervention in Afghanistan officially ended yesterday, but Joe Biden today was still trying to justify how it came to a chaotic conclusion.

ISIS-K blast earlier this week. US President has vowed to keep up air strikes against the Islamic extremist group whose suicide bombing killed scores of Afghans and 13 American service members.

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With the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, Emmy Award-winning director Greg Barker and producer Tresha Mabile from Showtime’s upcoming doc Detainee 001 discussed the lessons they learned from John Walker Lindh’s story. The documentary will premiere on Sept. 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.

“Every day we’re on the ground is another day that we know ISIS-K seeking to target the airport and attack both U.S. and Allied Forces and innocent civilians,” said President Joe Biden today from the White House, throwing a new urgency and specter into the American withdrawal from now Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

Get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletterUS President Joe Biden has decided not to extend his August 31 deadline for the US-led evacuation from Kabul despite an appeal by Boris Johnson and other G7 leaders.The Prime Minister, who struggled to get a phone call with the President as the Afghan crisis unfolded, failed at an emergency meeting of the G7 to change Biden’s mind.Speaking after an emergency meeting of the G7, Johnson revealed the

The presidents of five unions representing journalists are calling on President Joe Biden to support news crews and their families who are trying to flee Afghanistan.

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Ward has continued to report from on the ground in Kabul, Afghanistan this week following the Taliban’s takeover, and according to the correspondent, violence is increasing. During an on-air report Wednesday, Ward said member of her own team was nearly pistol whipped by Taliban fighters.Watch below, via CNN.

plead for their livelihoods under strict Taliban rule, the nation’s biggest pop star, Aryana Sayeed, has confirmed her escape from war torn Afghanistan.Sayeed, 36, who had recently starred as a judge on a singing competition show on Afghan television, told reporters she left via US cargo jet on Wednesday.

Afghanistan, was applauded after an emotional speech in which he spoke about his “grief, anger and rage” over the swift victory of the Taliban. Tugendhat laid the blame for the foreign affairs disaster squarely at the door of the White House, after President Biden refused to reverse the US decision to pull soldiers out, while blaming his predecessor Donald Trump for signing a peace deal and Afghans soldiers for failing to fight.

Taliban’s rapid takeover of Afghanistan. The musical sendup, titled “War Party,” first aired in 2001, a month after the US invaded the “graveyard of empires” following the 9/11 attacks.

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