Taliban declare victory from Kabul airport tarmac after US withdrawal
By Sheena McKenzie, CNN Taliban leaders declared victory over the United States from the tarmac of Kabul airport on Tuesday, hours after the…
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Arizona Senator Kelly makes statement on Afghanistan withdrawal
Arizona Senator Mark Kelly recently made a statement following the withdrawal of U.S. troopers in…
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An Afghan YouTuber was killed at Kabul airport. Many more fear the worst.
Four days after the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, 20-year-old YouTuber Najma Sadeqi sat on her bed and recorded a final video to tens of…
Continue Reading The last US military planes have left Afghanistan marking the end of the United States’ longest war
The last US military planes left Afghanistan, Commander of US Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie announced Monday at the…
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US Military Retaliates Against ISIS-K for Kabul Airport Attack
Capt. Bill Urban, spokesman for U.S. Central Command, issued a statement about an airstrike over…
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Senator Padilla releases statement on U.S. Marines killed in Afghanistan
California Senator Alex Padilla makes statement following the news of two U.S. marines that were killed in a suicide bombing in…
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Female Afghan robotics team hopes to work for country
An all-woman Afghan robotics team known as the “Afghan Dreamers” are now safe in Mexico, but they say they want to help others who remain in…
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Three SoCal families escape Afghanistan
Three families from a San Diego suburb have now made it out of Afghanistan after they went to the country earlier this summer to visit relatives and…
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Video Blog: Afghanistan Evacuations
Catch a glimpse from before the explosion, to the destructive aftermath caused by a recent suicide bomber whom killed over 60 people and injured over…
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BREAKING NEWS: Kabul explosion claims more than 80 lives, one suicide bomber confirmed
An AMPH official has confirmed more than 60 deaths and 140 people wounded, including U.S. service members. These atrocities are the result of two…
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Taliban speaks on U.S. and Afghani evacuations
On the ground, the airlift is intense. The U.S. Military says planes are leaving every 39…
Continue Reading Biden to contact families of 13 US service members killed in Kabul
President Joe Biden plans to contact the families of the 13 US service members who were killed in Thursday’s suicide attacks outside of Kabul’s…
Continue Reading What to know about ISIS-K, the terror group claiming responsibility for the Kabul airport attack
By Rob Picheta, CNN In the space of just a few years, an ISIS affiliate in Afghanistan has seized on the country’s instability to become one of…
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Report: Afghan staff details left behind at UK Kabul embassy
The U.K.’s defense chief is promising to investigate a security lapse that saw documents identifying Afghan staff members and job applicants left…
Continue Reading Evacuation from Afghanistan in final phase after deadly Kabul airport attack
By Ivana Kottasová, Barbara Starr, Kylie Atwood, Nick Paton Walsh, Sam Kiley, Zachary Cohen, Amy Woodyatt, Jennifer Hansler and Nectar Gan, CNN The…
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Elected leaders react to deaths of American service members in Kabul attack
The Desert Southwest’s elected federal leaders are expressing their shock and sadness at the loss of American lives in Thursday morning’s bombing at…
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Local veterans say they fear Washington D.C. is unfit to run military
Many local veterans not taking the news coming out of Kabul lightly and some even feel like they have lost one of their own. We sat down with a group…
Continue Reading Biden to Kabul attackers: ‘We will hunt you down and make you pay’
President Joe Biden vowed Thursday to retaliate for a terrorist attack that killed a dozen US service members outside Kabul’s international airport…
Continue Reading McCarthy tells Republicans Biden will face a ‘reckoning’ for handling of Afghanistan exit
CNN By Melanie Zanona, Jeremy Herb and Alex Rogers, CNN House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on Thursday vowed that President Joe Biden will face a…
Continue Reading US troops and Afghans killed in suicide attacks outside Kabul airport
By Ivana Kottasová, Barbara Starr, Kylie Atwood, Nick Paton Walsh, Sam Kiley, Zachary Cohen, Jennifer Hansler and Tim Lister, CNN Thirteen US…
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