Tag: Afghanistan

Beltway Confidential

WaPo fact-checker wants you to know US didn’t abandon $83 billion in equipment to the Taliban; it’s more like $24 billion

Becket Adams · September 1, 2021 5:11 pm

News

‘It’s hard to put a label on it’: Jake Sullivan declines to call Taliban an enemy

Jerry Dunleavy · September 1, 2021 5:01 pm

News

Father of 20-year-old Marine killed in action implores public: ‘Reach out to a veteran’

Matthew Miller · September 1, 2021 3:51 pm

News

Father of Marine killed in Kabul describes Biden ‘barking’ at him, tense stare-down: ‘Why are you arguing with me?’

Matthew Miller · September 1, 2021 3:44 pm

News

‘We are f***ing abandoning Americans’: Text messages from military commanders reveal how angry they were at state of evacuation mission

Kaelan Deese · September 1, 2021 3:10 pm

Beltway Confidential

Afghan refugees highlight issues with workforce credentialism

Tom Joyce · September 1, 2021 3:09 pm

Beltway Confidential

Flashback to Saigon: When the precursors of Elon Musk and Richard Branson rescued orphans and refugees

Timothy P. Carney · September 1, 2021 2:21 pm

News

Missing Oklahoma representative threatened embassy on unsanctioned Afghan rescue mission: Report

Kaelan Deese · September 1, 2021 12:16 pm

Foreign Policy

US argues it has ‘enormous leverage’ over the Taliban

Jerry Dunleavy · September 1, 2021 11:00 am

Defense

US woman left behind in Kabul with 130 rescue dogs thanks to DOD no-fly animal policy

Tori Richards · September 1, 2021 11:00 am

News

Republicans prepare for fight over Afghan refugee resettlement

Sarah Bedford · September 1, 2021 11:00 am

National Security

Biden faces questions about what’s next in terror fight after botched Afghanistan exit

Katherine Doyle · September 1, 2021 11:00 am