South African-British cyclist Jaco van Gass won gold in the men’s 3000-meter individual pursuit and set a new world record at the Paralympics just one week after being hit by a car in Paris. Just days ago, during a training exercise, van Gass was rounding a corner when a car pulled up and slammed into...
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Afghanistan withdrawal takes toll on US veterans’ mental health: retired lieutenant colonel
Three years after the deaths of 13 American service members at Abbey Gate during the hasty withdrawal from Afghanistan, veterans are voicing their opinions about the toll that experience has taken on them.Mission Roll Call CEO and retired Lt. Col. Jim Whaley gave an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital to honor those service members’...
3 years after US withdrawal, Afghan resistance still ignored by US, West
The Taliban has been in power for three years since the disastrous withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021, and the country’s only pro-Western opposition force, the National Resistance Front (NRF), tries to make gains against the increasingly extremist authorities, all without much-needed U.S. and international support. Even without external support, the NRF has...
Taliban escapee with 1 arm wins taekwondo medal at Paralympics for refugee team
Zakia Khudadadi became the first-ever Refugee Paralympic Team medalist on Thursday when she won bronze in women’s taekwondo. The medal marks a major milestone in the long and winding story of Khudadadi – a story that began when she was born without a forearm and included an escape from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan years ago. Shortly after...
3 years after US withdrawal from Afghanistan, Israel looks to lessons learned from War on Terror
The U.S. on Friday marked its third anniversary of the complete withdrawal from Afghanistan and the closure of the 20-years-long war, but questions remain over the lessons learned from the U.S. War on Terror and what can be applied to Israel’s fight against Islamic extremism. The collapse of Kabul to the Taliban, followed by the...
Gold Star mom reveals what Trump told her on third anniversary of son's death in Afghanistan withdrawal
Gold Star mom Paula Knauss Selph lambasted the Biden administration for continuing to evade accountability as she and other Gold Star families Monday marked three years since the terrorist attack at Afghanistan’s Kabul airport that claimed the lives of 13 U.S. service members. “On this day in particular, weare all grieving over somethingthat should have...
Former Trump national security adviser slams old boss over Afghanistan withdrawal: 'Concessions to Taliban'
Former Trump national security adviser H.R. McMaster told CNN on Monday that part of the blame for the botched U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan rests on former President Trump’s shoulders. McMaster, a retired U.S. Army Lieutenant General, told network anchor Anderson Cooper that the former president’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan while negotiating with Taliban...
Biden is in charge of country on second straight vacation, White House insists
The White House insisted again Monday that President Biden remains in charge of the country despite being on a second straight week of vacation. During a teleconference Monday, White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby recognized the three-year-anniversary of the Aug. 26, 2021, Abbey Gate suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and...
Biden, Harris 'have never once reached out' to Gold Star families of 13 fallen servicemembers, they say
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris “have never once reached out” to the Gold Star families who lost their loved ones in the deadly bombing at Abbey Gate that killed 13 Americans during the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal three years ago. Members of the Gold Star families participated in a call with GOP Vice Presidential...
'You're fired': Trump vows pink slips on Day 1 for every official responsible for 'Afghanistan calamity'
GOP presidential nominee former President Trump on Monday promised that if he were to retake the Oval Office he would demand on Day 1 the resignation of “every single official” responsible for the “Afghanistan calamity.” “The voters are going to fire Kamala and Joe on Nov. 5, we hope, and when I take office I...









