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…across the country. Someone decided relying on the Taliban for security around the airport was a good idea. Someone believed the Afghan army could stand up to the Taliban after…

…a “diversity, equity, and inclusion” focus in the military during a Senate hearing, the Taliban were gearing up to take over multiple Afghan districts and provinces the next week which…

…roughly flips the body over. “Just like a deer.” Realizing that the deceased was not a member of the Taliban but most likely a shopkeeper, another Marine says, “This is…

U.S. Central Command reported Tuesday that close to 20 percent of the U.S. troops withdrawal from Afghanistan is complete. The Pentagon confirmed that the Taliban have yet to attack U.S….

…faux comparison on Twitter Monday night. “Their Taliban, our Taliban, everybody’s got a Taliban,” he wrote above the picture depicting Capitol rioters and Middle East terrorists. “They’re at their best…

…dude who sells pillows, but make no mistake: The Taliban’s takeover is completely his fault. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi must step up to the plate. Pelosi may have failed in…

…of hiding out at Camp David and in Delaware, Biden finally said that “we made clear to the Taliban that any attack on our forces, or disruption or operations the…

…of American citizens will be secured by a cooperative Taliban to meet the Tuesday deadline next week, the radical Islamist group is blocking airport access in Kabul. Despite the Taliban’s…

…revert to being a terrorist haven. The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, by its very nature, will not keep to itself, the erstwhile assurances of Taliban officials notwithstanding. Every committed jihadist…

…trapped in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan four weeks after troops evacuated, has gripped the administration in scandal as Taliban fighters celebrate with tens of billions in U.S. military equipment left in their…

…Hero In the midst of a deep rooted scandal in the Veterans Affairs in May 2014, the Obama administration initiated the trade of five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay for…

…Army and Viet Cong a secure, safe lifeline of supplies from North to South; the Federally Administered Tribal Areas border region between Afghanistan and Pakistan hides Taliban and al-Qaeda in…

…that America was not pulling out of Afghanistan and would continue to engage its military to help the Afghan government fight the Taliban, al-Qaeda, and ISIS, and to stabilize the…

…issued a demarche to the Afghan Taliban that it deliver al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and expel the terror group. It refused. The United States and the United Kingdom then…

…ensured the Taliban understood the value of American hostages. In 2014, Obama released five Taliban commanders—one of whom is currently among Taliban leadership in Kabul—for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who later…

…unable to get to the airport in Kabul, unable to get past Taliban checkpoints outside the airport, and unable to get through the airport gates because of the desperate and…

…Afghanistan, I believe, is that things aren’t going well in terms of the fight against the Taliban.” Biden then gave Ghani his marching orders: “And there is a need, whether…

On Wednesday Axios reported that “the Taliban has stunned even some seasoned military and national security officials in the U.S. government with the speed of its conquests over the past…

…to prepare looks ludicrous in hindsight, instead moving the exit into the fighting season and allowing the Taliban more time to prepare. And where is Joe Biden in all of…

…maximizing the Taliban’s planning abilities, and they abandoned Afghanistan at the peak of Taliban fighting season. They allowed critical weapons technology to fall into the hands of the enemy. Perhaps…

…report by Open Doors USA. Afghanistan takes the lead thanks to its recent seizure by the Islamic militant group, the Taliban, which violently enforces its peculiar brand of Muslim extremism….

…spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid to use his official account to push Taliban propaganda, during and since the group’s violent takeover of Afghanistan in August. “Twitter permitted the Taliban official spokesman to…

…the Taliban. As CNN reported: Afghanistan’s Taliban was by far the deadliest group in 2012, when it launched 525 attacks that killed 1,842 people. The second deadliest group was Nigeria’s…

…vowed the United States would “make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.” Accordingly, the United States delivered an ultimatum to the Taliban:…

…moves forward, we’ll probably find out a lot more about the intricacies of the deal that saw President Obama swap five high-level members of the Taliban without notifying Congress. We…

…and insurgent groups and, occasionally, jihadist governments (including the Taliban and the Iranian regime) and quasi-governmental entities (like the Islamic State and some organizations within Pakistan and Saudi Arabia). Jihadist…

…The policy has endured as American forces have recruited and organized Afghan militias to help hold territory against the Taliban. But soldiers and Marines have been increasingly troubled that instead…

…revenge but specifically to preempt future plots against the West. “We’re going to smoke them out,” President Bush said a week after 9/11, adding, “The Taliban must take my statements…

…Airport last week and recounted how he saved their lives, Fox News reports. Akhtari worked alongside a former FBI agent and helped him to target Taliban leaders. While he awaited…

…Gulf state also hosted two Taliban officials traveling in and out of Qatar to meet with the “Taliban Five”—dangerous prisoners who were released to Qatar in exchange for U.S. deserter…

…collector and interrogator in the notoriously violent Sangin District of Helmand Province. During his tour, Grossi saw plenty of action, some of which he describes in heart-pumping detail. Taliban fighters…

…“12 Strong,” a new film detailing a recently declassified Special Forces insertion into Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11. The twelve-man Green Beret unit tasked with taking a Taliban stronghold…

…a country mostly covered by poppy seeds, where the Taliban control more territory than they did at any time in 2001. The word “war” is within quotes, because it doesn’t…

…Afghan roadside bomb. While clearing homes around Marja, Golsteyn and his team captured a suspected Taliban bomb maker. To identify the prisoner, he was taken to an Afghan tribal leader…

…Sam Rubin, a vice president of Crypsis Group, a cybersecurity firm Qatar has been a U.S. intermediary to numerous extremist groups including our current peace negotiations with the Taliban in…

…so the Taliban doesn’t come to power, because the Taliban is terrible for Afghan women. Therefore Afghan civil society needs indefinite American troops and treasure. Unfortunately, personnel is policy, and…