Tag: Taliban

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

‘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

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

National Security

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

Katherine Doyle · September 1, 2021 11:00 am

Foreign Policy

Biden relies on popularity of Afghanistan withdrawal to overshadow the execution

W. James Antle III · September 1, 2021 10:39 am

News

How Biden is resettling Afghans in the US

Anna Giaritelli · September 1, 2021 9:54 am

Opinion

The unbearable burden of being Joe Biden

Hugo Gurdon · September 1, 2021 12:51 am

News

Has Biden forgotten he was vice president for eight years?

Christopher Tremoglie · September 1, 2021 12:00 am

Foreign Policy

State Department moves embassy in Afghanistan to city that hosted US-Taliban peace talks

Joel Gehrke · August 31, 2021 11:34 pm

National Security

‘Consequences’ of US withdrawal from Afghanistan ‘will reverberate for decades,’ retired military brass warn

Mike Brest · August 31, 2021 11:23 pm