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U.S. officials were aware the Abbey Gate at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul could be targeted. But the gate was kept open to allow British personnel time to evacuate – then a suicide bomber struck Thursday. Politico reporter Lara Seligman talks about her reporting on that bombing and U.S. drone strikes in retaliation, which killed several civilians. Plus, we...

Officials have not confirmed it, but terror group ISIS-K is believed to be behind the explosion that killed more than a dozen U.S. servicemembers and 60 Afghans at the Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan Thursday. Former CIA analyst and U.S. Army member Matt Zeller explains what he knows about the group.

In this new era of rule in Afghanistan, “we can’t be duped by the spin cycle of what the Taliban is saying that they are,”says Farah Pandith of the Council on Foreign Relations. She doesn’t want the world to forget that women and girls will have a hard time in the new Afghanistan.

Some newcomers to the U.S. will be on SIVs, or Special Immigrant Visas, while others will have refugee status as they flee the Taliban. Ashley Faye from Refugee Services of Texas believes as many as 40,000 people could come to the U.S., including 354 families headed to Texas.

Matt Zeller served in the Army in Afghanistan and says he is only alive because an interpreter saved his life from Taliban fighters. He’s speaking up as the U.S. withdraws from the country and leaving some people behind.

Matt Zeller of the advocacy group No One Left Behind says Taliban fighters are going into people’s homes and “literally stealing their daughters” as the U.S. leaves Afghanistan. He says the U.S. promised interpreters and others to help in their time of need, and that time is now.

The Pentagon is sending an additional 1,000 troops to Kabul to help with the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, according to two defense officials.

President Joe Biden has authorized an additional 1,000 U.S. troops for deployment to Afghanistan

Just weeks before the U.S. is scheduled to end its war in Afghanistan, the Biden administration is rushing 3,000 fresh troops to Kabul.

The Pentagon says it will be requiring all members of the U.S. military to receive a COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, a deadline that could be moved forward if it receives final FDA approval or if infection rates continue to rise.

The Pentagon will require members of the U.S. military to get the COVID-19 vaccine by Sept. 15, according to a memo obtained by The Associated Press

An internal audit says the Defense Department has dragged its feet on protecting service members from toxic firefighting foam containing PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances

Folks in Middletown are stepping back in time with the inaugural Middletown Military Museum vehicle show.

Last month, the Cape Cod Air Force Station changed its name to the Cape Cod Space Force Station and introduced Space Force members to the roster. That one word replacement adds a whole new dimension to the mission of the station.

As the U.S. withdraws from Afghanistan, translators could be in danger, says Matt Zeller of No One Left Behind. Zeller says he is only alive today because an interpreter saved his life in combat. Now he’s speaking up for other interpreters and urging President Biden and Congress to act swiftly to bring Afghan interpreters to Guam, where they can be...

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that officials are on track to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan by Aug. 31. The president commended military leadership for achieving their counter-terror objectives in the region and defended the decision to withdraw, saying “We did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build. That is the right and the responsibility of the Afghan people alone to...

President Joe Biden is vowing that Afghans who helped the U.S. military “are not going to be left behind” as his administration steps up planning to evacuate thousands of Afghan interpreters while their applications for U.S. entry are processed

The U.S. Navy detonated explosives near one of its aircraft carriers on Friday to test whether the ship can handle the shock.

The Marine Corps says it’s relieving a general of his duties for failing to properly train Marines and sailors and evaluate the platoon before an exercise last summer when their seafaring tank sank off the Southern California coast

The Associated Press has learned that leaders of the military services have expressed reservations to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin about removing sexual assault cases from the chain of command