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President Joe Biden on Tuesday defended his decision to withdraw United States soldiers from Afghanistan after being there for twenty years. The President said that the United States “no longer had a clear purpose in an open-ended mission in Afghanistan.” “My fellow Americans, the war in Afghanistan is now over,” …

President Joe Biden, on Saturday, warned that another terror attack at Kabul airport in Afghanistan is “highly likely in the next 24-36 hours”. The President said he vowed to “hunt down any person involved” in Thursday’s “heinous attack,” which killed 13 US troops and “make them pay.” Biden: “To those …

President Biden addressed the nation Monday, saying he stands “squarely behind” his decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan after having a presence for 20 years. Talking from the White House Monday, the president said his administration has been “closely monitoring the situation on the ground in Afghanistan” and is …

“We are ending America’s longest war,” President Biden said on Thursday as he announced the US military mission in Afghanistan would end on August 31. “The U.S. did what we went to do in Afghanistan,” Biden said in a press conference in the White House’s East Room. He cited killing …