RealClearPolitics White House correspondent Phil Wegmann on Thursday asked White House national security spokesman John Kirby if President Biden at any time during the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal lost faith in the U.
Biden admin acknowledges flaws in Afghanistan pullout, says should have evacuated troops sooner
The Biden administration acknowledged it should have anticipated Afghanistan’s collapse and evacuated troops more quickly.
U.S. Acknowledges Afghanistan Evacuations Should Have Started Sooner
President Biden’s decision to end a 20-year war in August 2021 led to the swift collapse of the Afghan government and military.
Trump lashes out at ‘moron’ Biden after White House blames him for Afghanistan chaos
The actual amount of equipment left behind in Afghanistan following the US withdrawal is thought to be just above $7bn, most of it technically the property of the country’s now-defunct former …
White House insists Afghanistan report not about ‘accountability’; didn’t see ‘chaos’ in deadly withdrawal
The White House is insisting that the report released Thursday concerning the fumbled withdrawal from Afghanistan was not about “accountability” for the Biden administration and its role in the disastrous pullout from the country in 2021 as the Taliban …
White House Admits Mistakes in Afghanistan Withdrawal, While Also Blaming Trump
The Biden administration acknowledged on Thursday that it should have started the 2021 evacuation of Afghanistan sooner, while placing much of the blame for the deadly and chaotic US departure from the country with the Trump administration. The US retreat …
Biden’s disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal plan ‘severely constrained by conditions’ set by Trump, review says
Orders given by former president Donald Trump in the waning days of his administration left President Joe Biden “severely constrained” in how he handled the US withdrawal from Afghanistan after two decades of war, an interagency review of the …
Trump campaign says White House is ‘gaslighting’ on Afghanistan exit review
Former President Donald Trump responded to the White House’s report on the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan, accusing President Joe Biden of attempting to “gaslight the American people.” The White House released its findings in a 12-page …
Pakistan: Military kills 8 militants near Afghanistan border
According to a military statement, the shootout took place in Shin Warsak area of South Waziristan, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where an intelligence-based operation …
Afghanistan’s Taliban move spokesman’s office to Kandahar
REUTERS/Stringer/File Photo KABUL, April 6 (Reuters) – The main spokesman for Afghanistan’s Taliban administration will … Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to …