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The Biden administration’s first evacuation flight for Afghans who aided American and other coalition forces has arrived in the U.S., as the administration steps up efforts to relocate interpreters, other military assistants and their families ahead of a final troop withdrawal. The plane, carrying more than 200 people, landed at Fort Lee in Virginia, where passengers were to undergo health screenings and further processing of their Special Immigrant Visas. “Today is an important milestone as we continue to fulfill our promise to the thousands of Afghan nationals who served shoulder-...

CNN Zalmay Niaz became an interpreter for the US Army and worked in other supporting roles for allied forces in Afghanistan more than a decade ago. By Omar Jimenez and Ashley Killough, CNN When Zalmay Niazy was a 9-year-old boy in Afghanistan, he said, he was playing with some friends one day when a group of Taliban rode into town and demanded that he bring them some bread — or else his family would be harmed. Terrified, he ran home, grabbed a piece of bread that was no larger than a cell phone, he said, and took it back to the group of men.

Getting Afghan interpreters out of Afghanistan isn't progressive: It's the right thing to do Michael Wendt, opinion contributor © Getty Images Getting Afghan interpreters out of Afghanistan isn't progressive: It's the right thing to do For 20 years we have been locked into the quagmire that is the Afghan war. Throughout this time, we have relied on hundreds of local Afghan citizens as interpreters to augment our military power. During my service as a Marine sergeant, I had two combat deployments to Afghanistan; my platoons each had an Afghan interpreter. These men decided t...

The U.S. military has already started conducting so-called over-the-horizon operations as it withdraws from Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Thursday.

Austin Asks Top General For ‘Options’ to Evacuate Afghans Operation would need authorization from White House, which is not yet “actively pursuing” the idea. With time running out, the Pentagon is still developing plans to evacuate Afghans whose lives would be in danger from the Taliban after U.S. forces depart—but there’s still no order from the White House to move anyone, yet.  To prepare, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has tasked the head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie, to develop options for those Afghans that includes the possibility of evacuating them,...