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Julian Assange is not a hero — but a self-righteous lowlife lucky to be set free
Anarchists and America-haters might cheer the release of Julian Assange after striking a plea deal with US prosecutors, but make no mistake: He’s no hero.
How rising anti-American axis sees US weakness, and is ready to pounce
For anyone slow on the uptake, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-un provided some helpful show-and-tell in Pyongyang on Wednesday.
Biden backs US allies fighting for their lives — as long as they don't fight too hard
President Joe Biden has made his view on responding to foreign attacks painfully clear: America and its allies will fight back fiercely — but make sure not to cause their...
Institutions have violated the trust of Americans, and a new revolution is coming
Sometimes unexpected but dramatic events tear off the thin veneer of respectability and convention.
Former NATO commander warned White House Afghanistan pullout ‘would go very bad very fast’ before botched operation that left 13 US forces dead
A former NATO commander of US forces in Afghanistan testified to Congress last month that he advised the Biden administration that a full withdrawal of troops from the war-torn nation...
Biden pursued botched Afghanistan withdrawal against diplomats' advice: ex-negotiator
President Joe Biden ignored the advice of senior US diplomats – reportedly including Secretary of State Antony Blinken – who urged him not to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan without...
Abbey Gate suicide bombing that killed 13 US troops in Afghanistan was ‘not preventable:’ military review
Marine snipers posted up near Abbey Gate at the Kabul airport did not have an opportunity to take out the suicide bomber responsible for the attack on the airport during...
Taliban leader vows to start stoning and flogging Afghan women again: report
“With this announcement by the Taliban leader, a new chapter of private punishments has begun and Afghan women are experiencing the depths of loneliness,” a human rights official said.
Ex-general recounts opposition to disastrous Afghanistan pullout, laments Biden 'strategic failure' in Hill testimony
Milley added that the US-led war against the Taliban, launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, was a "strategic failure."
Full gender equality could take 300 years as 'global backlash against women's rights' takes hold: UN chief
Legal equality for women could take centuries as the fight for gender equality is becoming an uphill struggle against widespread discrimination and gross human human rights abuses, the United Nations...
How the US pull-out from Kabul hurt women most
Two years after US forces left Afghanistan, the nation's women and girls have seen their rights stripped away beyond recognition.
House committee chairman threatens Blinken with contempt unless he forks over docs on botched Afghanistan withdrawal
House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul threatened to hold Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in contempt unless the department forks over material on Afghanistan.
The Taliban hold another public execution as thousands watch at stadium in northern Afghanistan
The Taliban held a public execution on Monday of a man convicted of murder in northern Afghanistan as thousands watched at a sports stadium, the third such death sentence to...
America must take the world's new Axis of Evil much more seriously -- or else
China's approval of supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine and with it almost being 2 years since the beginning of the war, it is only a matter of time before a...
Biden insists disastrous Afghanistan pullout – that killed 13 US troops – wasn't a ‘mistake’: report
In his book “The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore Foreign Policy After Trump,” Politico reporter Alexander Ward said “no one offered to resign” after the bugout “in large part because...
Russian private Jet crashes in Afghanistan as Taliban reports some survivors
A Russian private jet carrying six people crashed in a remote area of rural Afghanistan but the pilot and some of the others on board survived, the Taliban said Sunday.
Obama's clueless foreign policy left behind the chaos we face today
To dive back into Obama’s presidential statements is to encounter a mind preoccupied to the point of obsession with the mistakes of the past.
Think Osama bin Laden is trendy, TikTokkers? Try #Talibanlife
Gullible young women on TikTok fall hard for Osama bin Laden's 9/11 propaganda. Here's one solution.
Taliban seen patrolling streets of Kabul on rollerblades with AK-47s
Video uploaded to YouTube and circulating on social media appears to show members of the terrorist group armed with AR-47s, patrolling the streets on rollerblades.
Hamas' Iran-backed attack should end Biden's deadly delusions
Hamas’ shock attack on innocent Israelis this weekend should be a blaring wake-up call not just to Israel but also to America, the West and anyone else.