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…to monitoring and removing Taliban content. “The Taliban is sanctioned as a terrorist organization under US law and we have banned them from our services under our Dangerous Organisation policies….

…Congress. This timeline below, just of June and July, shows Milley publicly acknowledging increasing Taliban control of Afghanistan as the military he leads prepared to leave. The report grimly notes…

…before the Taliban took over the country, but their quest for permanent U.S. residency was derailed when President Joe Biden initiated the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan last fall. I first…

The Army announced yesterday that Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl was charged with desertion and misbehaving before the enemy. He was the Taliban captive for whom the U.S. traded five members of…

There is a lot we don’t know about the ongoing peace negotiations between the United States and the Taliban that are currently happening in Doha, Qatar. For one, we have…

…many as 5,000 Taliban prisoners in a trade for 1,000 Afghan prisoners held hostage by the Taliban. The historic peace deal came after nearly two decades of war in Afghanistan….

…ultimately unable to accomplish. Even before America’s withdrawal started, the Afghan government based in Kabul began losing ground to the Taliban as its fighters—the U.S.-trained Afghan National Security Forces, or…

…failed withdrawal after not following Trump’s withdrawal agreement with the Taliban set for May 1. The Taliban toppled the Afghan government in only a few days. “When I came into…

…show’s narrator, Sarah Koenig, even manages to call the Taliban (which isn’t actually that hard) to get their side of the story. The series is full of shocking moments, sure…

…to school. I don’t know. But, as Robert Tracinski writes, this was a Taliban Dream Team: “These were top officials in the Taliban regime: a provincial governor, a deputy defense…

…countless wars that benighted region has known. The Taliban viewed them as idolatrous, and incompatible with their vicious vision of Islam. In March 2001, the Taliban’s Mullah Omar was still…

In a startling new paper from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, retired colonel Mark Cancian writes about the Afghanistan War. The United States and the Taliban stand on…

…to the Taliban? Biden incredulously answered that he doesn’t trust the Taliban, but it is not an American problem to solve. The question exemplified the general quality of wisdom and…

…learned from a report in the Washington Post that on the day Kabul fell to the Taliban, Abdul Ghani Baradar, the head of the Taliban’s political wing, gave U.S. Gen….

…withdrawal he oversaw as commander-in-chief. “When I came to office, I inherited a deal cut by my predecessor—which he invited the Taliban to discuss at Camp David on the eve…

…Biden is only now returning from Camp David and White House press secretary Jen Psaki is on vacation, the Taliban captured Kabul. According to Fox News Pentagon correspondent Lucas Tomlinson,…

…of the sandy wasteland that is Afghanistan. As we watched Kabul fall in an instant this weekend back into the grips of the Taliban, Crenshaw’s immediate thoughts were that this…

…France confirmed it had detained a man evacuated from Afghanistan who has ties to the Taliban. In fact, the man worked as an armed head of a Taliban checkpoint in…

…strengthen military readiness, as the Taliban swept Afghanistan after 20 years of U.S. presence. The Taliban invasion would catch U.S. military leaders infected with wokeism by surprise. On June 24,…

President Joe Biden offered an apparent quid pro quo to the since-fled president of Afghanistan in the final days leading up to the Taliban takeover of Kabul. According to the…

…disconnected from reality. As we watch our allies in the Northern Alliance flee the Panjshir valley and head into the mountains for a last-stand struggle against the Taliban – an…

…wherever they can. They seek Islamic totalitarianism. Hearing that, some people balk: Can we really put in one category the Pakistani Taliban, the Afghan Taliban, Islamic State, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Hamas,…

…high-level Taliban leaders for ransomed American soldier Bowe Bergdahl, we saw the consequences of that emptiness. There is one thing that wasn’t quite captured in the analysis of Obama’s speech…

…that the United States traded five members of the Taliban held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba in exchange for Bowe Bergdahl, a U.S. soldier held by Taliban affiliates. The release…

…enemy from further misadventures. The war against the Taliban for harboring al-Qaeda fell in that category. However, the nation-building in Afghanistan to the attempt at instituting liberal rights are post-facto…

…component of China’s “One Belt and One Road” project. The Taliban, a radical Muslim militant group, doesn’t seem bothered by China’s human rights violations against Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang. Taliban…

…Special Immigrant Visas, for SIVs. There have even been reports, for days now, that some Americans have been beaten at Taliban checkpoints, and that contrary to Biden’s claims, showing a…

…Taliban “and said he had worked as the armed head of a Taliban checkpoint in Kabul.” French officials also believe he is close to another Afghan evacuee suspected of working…

…to because the country is experiencing what a United Nations official calls ”the worst humanitarian crisis we’ve ever seen.” After the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan in August, the Taliban, an Islamist terrorist…

…from prison and led to the opening of the Taliban’s “political” office in Doha. Negotiations with the Taliban ultimately resulted in handing Afghanistan to the Taliban to run it as…

…not every battle or controversy, but the large-scale shifts between democracy, tyranny and extremism: October-November 2001: U.S. invades Afghanistan, toppling the Taliban government. December 2001: Conference of Afghan leaders in…

On September 26, 2001, CIA teams infiltrated Afghanistan to seek out and organize Afghanis willing to topple the Taliban-controlled government. U.S. Army Special Forces advised and assisted Afghani allies in…

…“We have seen unthinkable atrocities committed by the U.S., Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan, and the Taliban.” Even some of her fellow Democrats were frustrated by her comparison of the United States…

…come as Taliban forces continue to engage in a rapid advance across Afghanistan. The Taliban now controls 200 of the country’s 421 districts. Its forces are fighting the Afghan government,…

…shifted blame onto the preceding administration and evacuated mostly poorly vetted Afghans. According to Politico, U.S. officials have even shared intelligence with the Taliban, with one defense official saying, “Basically,…

…but others, like so much of this war, are missing crucial context. One example is the list of Americans and green-card holders we handed to the Taliban. That was infuriating,…