Seventy-three percent of US veterans think the military withdrawal from Afghanistan tarnished America’s legacy in the war on terror. According to a poll taken a year after U.S. forces withdrew from the country in August 2021, 73 percent of veterans said the withdrawal affected America’s image “negatively,” while 18 percent reported having no opinion. According
The House Foreign Affairs Committee will convene its first hearing in its review of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan on March 8 and is set to invite the leaders of two groups that organized charter flights that evacuated thousands of people from the country in August 2021. The March 8 hearing will feature testimony from
House Oversight Republicans called for a briefing by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, claiming the Biden administration is obstructing probes.
Amid the chaos of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a retired Green Beret and a cohort of volunteers asked themselves, “What can I do?” The answer saved 1,000 Afghans from the Taliban.
Afghan special operators have been high-priority targets of the Taliban since U.S. military forces withdrew from Afghanistan last year, former Green Beret says.