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Republican Senator Lindsey Graham spoke out on CBS political talk show Face The Nation today, saying that the botched withdrawal from Afghanistan “set the conditions for another 9/11.” Host Ed O’Keefe asked Graham, no fan of President Joe Biden’s handling of the situation, what he would have done differently. “Well…

"So America is no longer the world's policeman, we're the world's student loan officer," said Bill Maher tonight of Joe Biden's pledge to "hunt you down and make you pay" the perpetrators of yesterday's horrific attack outside Kabul Airport. "I'll tell you, America not so good at wining wars, but the getting the fuck…

Editors Note: Over the horrendous last couple of weeks as America began its final withdrawal from Afghanistan and Taliban zealots took control again after two decades, veteran foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay has been back in the…

President Joe Biden, facing the worst day of his presidency, mourned the loss of U.S. servicemen and civilians killed in a deadly attack outside the Kabul airport, but he vowed that the Afghanistan evacuation mission would continue. “We can and we must complete this mission and we will,” Biden said in remarks, carried…

"Every day we're on the ground is another day that we know ISIS-K seeking to target the airport and attack both U.S. and allied forces and innocent civilians," President Joe Biden said Tuesday from the White House, throwing new urgency and specter into the American withdrawal from now Taliban-ruled <a href="https://deadline.com/tag/afghanistan/" id="auto-tag_afghanistan_4"…

Peabody and Emmy Award-winning documentary series Vice will premiere Return of the Taliban: A Vice Special Report on Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. ET/PT, a one-hour Showtime special following the current Taliban takeover in Afghanistan. Exclusive footage and interviews from the war-torn country and its surrounding areas from…

The presidents of five unions representing journalists are calling on President Joe Biden to support news crews and their families who are trying to flee Afghanistan. "The United States government must stand behind a free press," they said in a letter sent to Biden today. "We now ask for your administration’s support…

Shahrbanoo Sadat, the Afghan filmmaker whose credits include 2019 Cannes Directors' Fortnight pic The Orphanage, has successfully fled Kabul, according to her Danish producers Adomeit Film. The director had been attempting to escape the Taliban incursion, which has seen the group swiftly take Afghanistan's capital…

Editor’s note: Seasoned foreign affairs correspondent and Only Cry for the Living: Memos from Inside the ISIS Battlefield author Hollie McKay recently returned to Afghanistan to cover the planned U.S. troop withdrawal. In the past week, McKay has watched as a nation long cited as where empires come to die struggle…

President Joe Biden said Friday the past week has been “heartbreaking” and the U.S. mission to evacuate Afghanistan amid chaos at the Kabul airport is “difficult” and “dangerous.” He promised that no U.S. citizen will be left behind and that the U.S and its allies will pressure the newly installed Taliban leadership…

A relative of an editor from German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle was shot dead by the Taliban in Afghanistan in what the network is calling a targeted attack. Widespread reports from Kabul claim that Taliban fighters have been going door-to-door in the city looking for notable collaborators with the previous…

In a mini-publicity blitz amid dramatic news coverage and skeptical questions about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, President Joe Biden's White House turned to ABC News and George Stephanopoulos for his first exclusive media interview on the topic. The network just released a teaser clip (watch it below). It…