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Arlington employee feared retaliation from Trump supporters if she reported being shoved during cemetery incident: report
Donald Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery to commemorate the anniversary of the Abbey Gat…
Brent D. Griffiths
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Biden kept classified documents to prove he was right and Obama was wrong about Afghanistan, special counsel says
Biden's lawyers took exception to the notion that the now-president cared so much about the documen…
Brent D. Griffiths
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62% of Americans believe US troops will have to return to Afghanistan to fight terrorism: poll
Nearly 70% of Americans said ending the war in Afghanistan was the right thing to do, according to …
Bryan Metzger
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McConnell blasts Biden's Afghanistan withdrawal as 'one of the worst foreign policy decisions in American history'
"We leave behind exactly what we went in to solve 20 years ago, and I fear for the future and conti…
John L. Dorman
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Republican Sen. Ben Sasse accuses Biden of using 'happy talk' in Afghanistan approach, says he is 'disconnected from reality'
"There is clearly no plan. There has been no plan. Their plan has basically been happy talk," Sasse…
John L. Dorman
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The US withdrawal from Afghanistan is chaotic, tragic, and necessary
Some have used the speed of the Afghan government's fall to argue that the US withdrawal was a mist…
Bonnie Kristian, Defense Prio…
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Biden's average approval rating slips below 50% for the first time since taking office
Biden's FiveThirtyEight average approval declined to 49.3%, while his disapproval rating sits at 44…
John L. Dorman
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Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said in May that the country's government could resist the Taliban 'forever' without US assistance
As the Taliban approached Kabul, Ghani fled the country by plane on Sunday and insurgents quickly t…
John L. Dorman
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Trump blasts Biden for not 'following the plan' his administration crafted for Afghanistan
Biden pushed back on Trump's criticism, alleging that the former president had "left the Taliban in…
John L. Dorman
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Taliban captures Afghanistan's fourth-largest city, sets sights on Kabul
The Taliban took over the government's last northern stronghold of Mazar-e-Sharif in "barely an hou…
John L. Dorman
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The US military plainly failed in Afghanistan. The generals need to answer for it.
Expect the military officials who commanded the war in Afghanistan to invoke "cutting and running."…
Andrew J. Bacevich, Responsib…
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The US was doomed in Afghanistan and will repeat mistakes if it doesn't learn from them, top watchdog warns
"Don't believe what you're told by the generals ... or people in the administration saying we're ne…
Christopher Woody
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House Republicans urge Pentagon to block removal of a Confederate memorial from Arlington National Cemetery
A group of more than 40 Republican lawmakers want to stop the Pentagon from removing a controversia…
Nathan Rennolds
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Biden says the war in Afghanistan is over, but it's really just starting a new chapter
"We will maintain the fight against terrorism in Afghanistan and other countries. We just don't nee…
John Haltiwanger
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Top US general says war in Afghanistan is 'not over,' despite Biden repeatedly saying it's done
"The war on terror is not over, and the war in Afghanistan is not over, either," Gen. Kenneth McKen…
John Haltiwanger
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'We actually won the war we needed to fight': Trump's pick for ambassador to Afghanistan on why it's time to get out
"The future of Afghanistan needs to be determined by Afghans," William Ruger, Trump's nominee to be…
Christopher Woody
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Biden warns Israel: Don't make the same mistakes the US did after 9/11
President Joe Biden's comments warning Israel not to make the same mistakes that the US made after …
Grace Eliza Goodwin
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Republicans are already trumpeting their opposition to accepting Palestinian refugees, even before Israeli forces enter Gaza
Hard-right lawmakers introduced a bill to block Palestinians from entering the US, and Gov. Ron DeS…
Bryan Metzger
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Gen. Mark Milley says a civil war in Afghanistan is 'likely' after US troop withdrawal, potentially leading to a resurgence of al Qaeda
"You could see a resurgence of terrorism coming out of that general region within 12, 24, 36 months…
John L. Dorman
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We lost the war in Afghanistan — time to come home
The US has suffered thousands of losses and spent trillions of dollars in Afghanistan and has nothi…