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FOX News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has the details on Special Report Nearly 17,000 Afghan interpreters who risked their lives working for the U.S. military are trying to leave the war-torn country ahead of President Biden’s Sept. 11 deadline to withdraw remaining U.S. forces from Afghanistan. But some may get left behind. U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, said those interpreters have a bulls-eye on their backs, and that if the U.S. does not help them, there could be sc...

President Biden’s decision to leave Afghanistan completely puts thousands of people who helped us in various ways in peril after the inevitable takeover by the Taliban. If he’s going to abandon them, he at least needs to find a way to protect them, including by bringing them here. Thousands of people are storming across the border illegally. We at least need to assist those who, instead of breaking the law, put their lives on the line for America. As Fox News’ Jennifer Griffin reports, am...

"We have made it exceedingly clear that protecting our forces and the forces of our allies and partners as they too withdraw is a priority, its a main priority," Pentagon spokesman John Kirby told reporters Wednesday. "We have made plans to introduce additional ground force capabilities to, again, make sure that this is safe and orderly," Kirby added. The Pentagon also extended the deployment of a U.S. Navy carrier strike group in the region and deployed a dozen F-18 fighter jets to provide a...

Michigan ANG “carries the torch” for Air Force communication networks in Europe Photo By Staff Sgt. Bethany Rizor | Members of the 110th Wing (pictured from left to right), Senior Airman Donovan Wentworth, 110th Communications Flight; Staff Sgt. Jennifer Rumsey, Tech. Sgt. Justin Oosterbaan, Lt. Col. Daniel Fawcett, Tech. Sgt. Robert Zellers, Master Sgt. Brian Leonard, Tech. Sgt. Lewis Banks, Staff Sgt. Robert Rainone, 217th Air Component Operations Squadron and Staf...

Punch Newspapers Sections The United States Africa Command (AFRICOM) is one of America’s 11 major military bases dotted around the globe for the purpose of protecting and defending its national security interests, and those of its allies. America, being the leading Western military superpower, has been bearing the brunt of Western security since the end of WWII. The 1960s Cold War ideological rivalry between the former Soviet bloc and the West made it more imperative that America expanded its...

A United States Pentagon official says “small harassing attacks” by the Taliban in Afghanistan have not had a significant impact on the ongoing US and NATO troop withdrawal from the country. The statement from Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby came shortly after the US officially began its troop withdrawal on Saturday. “What we’ve seen are some small harassing attacks over the course of the weekend that have not had any significant impact, certainly not on our people or our resources ...

Cyber Command shifts counterterrorism task force to focus on higher-priority threats May 4 U.S. Cyber Command is shifting Joint Task Force-Ares focus from counterterrorism to nation-state actors, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Cyber Command Public Affairs) WASHINGTON — U.S. Cyber Command is shifting the majority of its special task force aimed at targeting the Islamic State group to focus more on nation-state actors, particularly in the Indo-Pacific region, which the comm...

U.S. moved 60 planeloads of equipment out of Afghanistan, Pentagon says By (0) Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III walks with the commander of Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan, Army Lt. Gen. E. John Deedrick Jr., before departing Kabul, Afghanistan, in March. File Photo by Lisa Ferdinando/DoD/UPI | License Photo May 4 (UPI) -- The United States has moved the equivalent of 60 C-17 military transport planeloads of material out of Afghanistan and turned over more 1,300 p...

Will the war in Afghanistan really end? The numbers suggest otherwise. The Pentagon’s own data makes a true withdrawal appear unlikely. By Heidi PeltierUpdated May 4, 2021, 1:04 p.m. Email to a Friend Marine Lance Corporal Franklin Romans searched a house in Helmand province in 2009.Kevin Frayer/Associated Press When the Biden administration vowed to end the US presence in Afghanistan by Sept. 11, certain things were unclear. How many American troops are in the country, and how many are ou...

Toggle open close The Issue One of the key shortfalls in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—also known as the Iran nuclear deal—is that the deal does not address the growing threat of Iran’s missile programs. The U.S. cannot forget that a little over a year ago more than 10 Iranian ballistic missiles armed with high explosives struck the Ain al-Asad base in Iraq, injuring a significant number of U.S. troops posted there. Attention to this issue is critical. A Growing Threat Th...