The first House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan featured emotional and graphic testimony from two American service members who lived through it.
US Marine Corps Sergeant Tyler Vargas-Andrews can remember in specific detail the moment that a suicide bomber attacked Kabul airport's Abbey Gate in August 2021 amid the chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan.
Eighteen months after the tumultuous ending of the U.S. military mission in Afghanistan, the Biden administration’s handling of the shocking withdrawal will be examined on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
The first House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing will dive into the "stunning failure" of the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.