The Air Force on Tuesday said Lt. Gen. Sami Said will lead a review of the investigation into the Kabul Aug. 29 drone strike that was intended for ISIS-K militants but actually killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children. “The secretary of the Air Force has directed Lt. Gen. Sam Said, the Department of the […]
Cleveland Browns star Baker Mayfield honored a U.S. service member who was killed in an Afghanistan terrorist attack last month. The quarterback featured an image of Maxton Soviak on his cleats before the Browns’ game against the Houston Texans Sunday. The 22-year-old Soviak was one of the 13 U.S. service members killed in Kabul. Soviak […]
The Pentagon on Friday confirmed it mistook a civilian vehicle for an ISIS-K threat when it launched a drone strike on Aug. 29 in Kabul that killed 10 civilians. “I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children, were tragically killed in that strike,” U.S. Central Command head Gen. Frank […]
As America reaches 20 years since the 9/11 attacks, the former Navy SEAL credited with killing Usama bin Laden warned of the greatest threat now facing the U.S. Robert O’Neill, former member of the elite SEAL Team Six, said in an interview with Fox News that despite growing concerns around a resurgence of radical Islamic […]
Eight U.S. military bases are working to house an expected 50,000 Afghan refugees, U.S. Northern Command head Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck said Friday. More than 25,600 Afghans have arrived stateside so far and include a mix of special immigrant visa (SIV) applicants and asylum-seekers, VanHerck told reporters at the Pentagon via satellite video. But […]
The U.S. Navy declared five missing sailors dead nearly a week after a helicopter crashed in the Pacific Ocean, shifting the search for them to a recovery operation on Saturday. The move followed more than 72 hours of coordinated rescue efforts and nearly three dozen search and rescue flights to look for the wreckage, the […]
The Taliban declared victory Tuesday after the last U.S. troops left Afghanistan, with an official from the insurgent group declaring that the nation is free. The group marched into Kabul’s international airport on Tuesday, dressed in camouflage and posing for photos, The Associated Press reported. “Afghanistan is finally free,” Hekmatuhha Wasiq, a Taliban official, told […]
The U.S. intercepted a rocket aimed at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Monday, one day before evacuation operations in Afghanistan are scheduled to end, while three others struck outside the facility and one landed inside the perimeter with “no effect,” officials said. “We assess that five rockets were in the air and […]
The U.S. military conducted an airstrike against a vehicle carrying at least one suicide bomber who intended to target Kabul’s international airport Sunday, a U.S. official confirmed. The strike in a crowded neighborhood northwest of the airport set off “significant secondary explosions,” which indicated a “substantial amount of explosive material” inside the vehicle, Capt. Bill […]
The fathers of two Marines killed in Thursday’s suicide attack at Kabul’s airport have expressed outrage at the U.S. government’s handling of the withdrawal of American forces, with one claiming President Biden “turned his back” on his murdered son. “They sent my son over there as a paper pusher and then had the Taliban outside […]
The Pentagon announced Saturday that the U.S. strike targeting ISIS-K terrorists took out two high-profile “planners and facilitators” in response to the suicide bombing at Kabul Airport that killed 13 American soldiers and dozens of Afghans. Major General Hank Taylor told reporters that the over-the-horizon counterterrorism operation killed “two high profile” ISIS-K targets and wounded […]
The Pentagon on Friday said the deadly attack outside Kabul airport the previous day was carried out by one suicide bomber and that there was not a second explosion at a nearby hotel. “I can confirm for you that we do not believe that there was a second explosion at or near the Baron Hotel, […]