The report is the result of many months of investigations by Biden’s administration into the decision-making process of leaving Afghanistan. Many aspects of the pullout were chaotic, and led to 13 U.S. service members being killed near a gate of the Kabul airport by a pair of suicide attacks.
A human rights group is calling on the U.S. to help more than 2,000 Afghan asylum seekers being held in what it calls “prison-like conditions” in the United Arab Emirates.
The anti-terrorism program at U.S. Army Garrison Rheinland-Pfalz was judged the best of any garrison in the world with a population over 10,000, the Army announced.
Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews said his unit had warned commanders that they saw two suspects in the chaotic crowd outside Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021, that fit a description flagged by U.S. intelligence, but the Marines were denied permission to shoot.
Maj. Katie Lunning of the Minnesota Air National Guard will receive the award “for heroism during the collapse of Afghanistan when U.S. troops worked frantically to evacuate as many allies as possible as the Taliban took over the country.”