President Joe Biden spoke against the same backdrop that former President George W. Bush used to announce the first US airstrikes in Afghanistan.
Biden set to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11
Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Menendez, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the United States could cut off financial assistance to Afghanistan “if there is backsliding on civil …
Obama praises Biden’s ‘bold leadership’ in withdrawing US troops from Afghanistan after nearly 20 years at war
Obama said that it’s “time to recognize that we have accomplished all that we can militarily, and that it’s time to bring our remaining troops home.” …
How Biden went his own way on Afghanistan withdrawal
President Joe Biden ordered the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan over the advice of some of his senior-most advisers in the Pentagon and State Department, leaders who are now charged with …
‘The progress Afghanistan has made … will all be for naught,’ retired general fears
A retired general predicts what the next year will be like in Afghanistan, given US troop withdrawal. It’s grim.
Biden called Bush and Obama before announcing Afghanistan troop withdrawal
President Biden spoke to both former Presidents George Bush and Barack Obama on Tuesday before he announced his decision to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11.
On Afghanistan, Biden decides a 20-year war is long enough and upsets all the right people
We can always go back in if we must, but only after the debate our leaders long avoided as a tiny sliver of America was bleeding out all the sacrifices.
Standing among U.S. graves, Biden explains Afghanistan decision in personal terms
As President Joe Biden stood in the rain on Wednesday among the tombstones of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan, thoughts of his late son Beau were not far from his mind as he explained his decision …
Taliban issues warning over U.S. troop plan, demanding forces withdraw from Afghanistan by May 1 or risk ‘compounded’ problems
Biden’s new withdrawal timeline will keep thousands of American troops in Afghanistan months past the May 1 deadline negotiated by the Trump administration last year.
Biden announces troops will leave Afghanistan by September 11: ‘It’s time to end America’s longest war’
President Joe Biden on Wednesday formally announced his decision to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan before September 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade …