House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Michael McCaul (R-Texas) on Monday renewed his threat to hold Secretary of State Antony Blinken in contempt of Congress if the department “continues to withhold” subpoenaed documents on the U.S.’s exit from Afghanistan in 2021. McCaul, in a letter to Blinken, claimed the State Department’s After-Action Review (AAR) of the Biden…
New US intelligence assessments suggest that is “unlikely” al Qaeda will revive in Afghanistan and Pakistan and that counterterrorism operations by the Taliban in Afghanistan have degraded the Islamic State’s presence there, two senior US officials said on Friday.