Taliban Earning Billions, Giving American Weaponry to Terrorist Groups as Afghanistan Once Again Becomes Jihadi Hotbed: Report

The Taliban took in $3.4 billion in revenue over the last year, boosting its cash supply by 14 percent amid the return of Afghanistan as a central safe haven for terrorist organizations across the Middle East, according to a U.S. government watchdog group.

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The Communist-Islamist Axis Rears Its Head in South Asia. Plus, Israel Plots Military Expansion in Gaza.

An unhappy marriage: Radical Islam and communism "are strange bedfellows," writes the Hudson Institute's Mike Watson. "Nonetheless, across much of Asia, an increasing number of countries are welcoming both," as this week's jihadist attack in Kashmir makes clear.

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American Freed After Two Years in Taliban Custody, State Department Says

The Trump administration has secured the release of Taliban captive George Glezmann, an American citizen whom the Biden administration failed to designate as "wrongfully detained" for nearly a year, the State Department announced Thursday.

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Biden Admin Quietly Spent $15 Mil To Distribute 'Contraceptives and Condoms' in Afghanistan—and Said Doing So Would Take 'Some Coordination' With Taliban

The Biden administration quietly awarded $15 million in taxpayer funds to Taliban-controlled Afghanistan to help distribute "oral contraceptives and condoms," a non-public congressional funding notice reviewed by the Washington Free Beacon shows. In doing so, the administration acknowledged that "some coordination" with the Taliban would be "necessary for programmatic purposes."

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DNC Frontrunner Wanted Trump Charged With ‘Treason’—Which Carries the Death Penalty

One of the frontrunners to lead the Democratic National Committee once called for Donald Trump to be put on trial for treason and accused the Republican of causing the deaths of American soldiers, all based on an unfounded allegation that even the Biden administration disputed.

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EXCLUSIVE: Biden Tells Wife Of American Held By Taliban He Isn’t Bringing Her Husband Home

'Haunted by Afghanistan'

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Trump Is A Deal Man’: Wife Of American Hostage Ryan Corbett Explains Why She Flew To Mar-A-Lago

'In desperation, I decided with the children to plan a trip to Mar-a-Lago'

Biden Reportedly In Negotiations With Taliban To Bring Home Americans Detained For Years

'It’s hard to continue to have faith'

Tony Blinken Tells Congress ‘No One Anticipated’ Taliban Takeover of Afghanistan

Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified before Congress on the Biden administration's chaotic Afghanistan withdrawal in a long-awaited hearing that was originally scheduled for September. Though he claimed that "no one" in the Biden State Department anticipated the Afghan government's swift collapse, a group of diplomats warned Blinken of that very prospect roughly one month before the Taliban captured Kabul.

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People Who Fought In Afghanistan Know Why Nation-Building Was Never Going To Work

In Afghanistan, tribalism is at a virtually unparalleled level. Westerners have no idea how deeply disturbing that tribalism can be.