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‘In my personal opinion, I believe the IRGC Quds Force to be a terrorist organization, and I do not support them being de-listed,’ Milley told senators.

In firsthand accounts, Afghan civilians and U.S. Marines describe the desperate struggle to flee through the Kabul airport’s last open entrance. U.S. of...

Israeli military officials say hermetically sealing up the fence would be a fool's errand – and that they neutralize security threats much more effectively by other means

Irans embassy in Kabul "condemns the use of terrorist methods that threaten the security of the Afghan people" at a time when major powers are still grappling with the countrys crisis.

>> erin, we are learning more details but there are still many questions, of course. now, this raid did not go exactly as they had hoped. the hope had been to capture him, that is according to the head of central command, frank mackenzie. as you mentioned, he blew himself up along with his family, his wife, and children. his body was thrown to the ground, and there the special forces troops on the ground did identify him thanks to dna and his fingerprints. now, how did this operation go down? we...

U.s. special forces under central command. >> what happened to his body? was it carried away like the u.s. did with bin ladens body or was it too badly damaged to do anything with and, two, an administration official told reporters today this has been planned for a long, long time. the president had been presented in december with a tabletop model of the compound or building. why was the raid now versus maybe two or three weeks ago or even a month ago? can you give any -- shed any light on that?...

The control of central command. tony. >> two quick questions. what happened to his body? was it carried away like with bin ladens body or too badly damaged? and two, administration officials told reporters today this had been planned for a long, long time, the president was presented in december with a tabletop model of the compound or the building. why was the raid now versus two or three weeks ago or a month ago? can you shed any light on that? >> yeah. his body was left at the site. as for th...

We talked about -- even know we dont have boots on the ground in afghanistan, that will make the job harder. we do have over the horizon capabilities available in the central command region. we showed that last night and well keep an eye on afghanistan. the senator is right. isis-k is trying to grow. they have suggested intent to attack the west and attack our homeland. were mindful of that threat and watching it closely. well continue to look for all kinds of different ranging of capabilities a...

Who are these individuals that should have been on the game and wasnt and are they going to be held accountable? who would you point to? >> having been involved in discussions with central command and the uscis and the state department, the one thing i have to say is the people on the ground were very sympathetic. its a breakdown in leadership. a lot of people that would hear our case and completely agr with it and never got done what they didnt get done in most cases. so i think the leadership ...

President biden was here at the white house within minutes of the attack, beginning with the ukrainian president zelenskyy who reached out to him and afterward, president biden put out a statement saying president putin has chosen a premeditated war that will bring catastrophic loss of life and human suffering. of course, the big question is what the response is going to look like when we hear from president biden shortly given how russia has tried to upend all of this and hes got the g7 meeting...