Afghanistan

There are growing concerns about one American who risks being left behind as the U.S. moves to withdraw its military from Afghanistan.

Voters who served in the military have long leaned Republican, but there are signs that Democrat Joe Biden may have cut into that advantage

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken is making an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to sell Afghan leaders and a wary public on President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw all American troops from the country

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Afghanistan in an unannounced visit a day after President Joe Biden announced the withdrawal of US troops from the country.

President Joe Biden says he will withdraw the remaining U.S. troops from Afghanistan and end America’s longest war

“It is time to end America’s longest war,” Biden said. “It is time for American troops to come home.”

President Joe Biden on Wednesday outlined his plans to start the final removal of troops from Afghanistan starting May 1.
“The Taliban should know that if they attack us as we draw down, we will defend ourselves and our partners with all the tools at our disposal,” Biden said.

President Biden plans to pull U.S. troops out of Afghanistan by Sept. 11, a senior administration official said Tuesday.

U.S. officials say President Joe Biden will withdraw all troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on America that were coordinated from that country

President Joe Biden isn’t ruling out the possibility of U.S. troops staying in Afghanistan through the end of the year.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has made his first visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, and he says the Biden administration wants to see “a responsible end” to America’s longest war

The Taliban have strongly warned the United States to honor its pledge to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by May 1 or face a “reaction.”

President Biden is considering keeping U.S. troops in Afghanistan until November, rather than withdrawing them by a May 1 deadline outlined in an agreement his predecessor negotiated with the Taliban, according to two people familiar with the discussions.

President Joe Biden says that it will be “tough” for the U.S. to meet a May 1 deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan but that the complete drawdown won’t take much longer

Afghans involved in peace talks say the Biden administration has presented an eight-page draft peace agreement to the country’s warring sides for review and told them to come to Turkey in coming weeks ready to move on it

The Pentagon said Monday that it has not decided on whether to withdraw U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

A report released by the U.S. government’s Afghanistan watchdog has found that America has wasted billions of dollars in the war-torn country on buildings and vehicles that were either abandoned or destroyed

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has not yet decided if the 10,000 troops it has in Afghanistan will leave the country by May.

The Afghan Taliban have kept up a close relationship with Al Qaeda despite pledging to stop cooperating with terrorist groups, permitting the militants to conduct training in Afghanistan and deploy fighters alongside its forces, according to the head of a U.N. panel monitoring the insurgency.

Relatives and supporters of an American contractor who was abducted a year ago in Afghanistan and is believed to be in the custody of a Taliban-linked militant group are pressing the new Biden administration to bring him home