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On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Evening Edit,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX) discussed a report by House Republicans on the withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 and stated that while the decision whether or not to withdraw can be debated, the exit was done so carelessly and was done “with complete disregard for the conditions on the ground.” McCaul also said that 3,000 Afghan soldiers, including people with special training, “fled into Iran because they couldn’t get out” of Afghanistan and we currently have no idea where they are today. McCaul stated, [relevant remarks begin around 3:55] “[T]he troops we did have were penned in at the airport, sitting ducks getting shot at. And we turned the perimeter security over to the Taliban. I can’t — you can debate whether we should withdraw, but the way this was done was so reckless, with complete disregard for the conditions on the ground. And that’s really where I really … [Read more...] about McCaul: 3,000 Afghan Forces Fled to Iran, Including ‘Specially Trained’ Forces, and ‘We Have No Idea Where They Are Today’

close Video Morgan Ortagus: Iranian regime is actively trying to kill Americans Former State Department spokesperson Morgan Ortagus reacts to reports of bounties by the Iranian regime to assassinate former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other American officials on 'The Next Revolution.' NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! JERUSALEM, Israel – The propaganda newspaper Kayhan, the mouthpiece for Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, announced in a blaring editorial on its front page that the assassination of President Donald Trump and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is in the cards. In an editorial on Saturday, the newspaper wrote, "The attack on [Rushdie] shows it is not a difficult job to take similar revenge on Trump and Pompeo and from now on they will feel more in danger for their lives." On Friday, 24-year-old New Jersey resident Hadi Matar, who showed great sympathy for the Iranian regime on Facebook, was … [Read more...] about Iran-backed newspaper threatens Trump, Pompeo assassinations after Salman Rushdie stabbing

close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for August 15 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. NEW You can now listen to Fox News articles! The man who allegedly stabbed author Salman Rushdie is Hadi Matar, a 24-year-old New Jersey man whose mother says he was radicalized during a 2018 trip to the Middle East. Matar's mother, Silvana Fardos, disowned her son after hearing about his alleged attack on Sunday. Fardos says Matar's 2018 trip to visit his father in Lebanon changed him from an outgoing, American-raised boy to an angry introvert who criticized her for not raising him to follow Islam, according to the Daily Mail. Fardos divorced Matar's father in 2004, and he soon moved back to the Middle East. "The first hour he gets there he called me, he wanted to come back," Fardos told the Mail of her son's trip. "He stayed for approximately 28 days, but the trip did not go well with his … [Read more...] about Who is Hadi Matar? Everything we know about Salman Rushdie’s alleged attacker

Former President Donald Trump released a statement exactly one year after the Taliban took over Afghanistan slamming President Joe Biden for his botched withdrawal. “The Afghanistan disaster of exactly one year ago was the most embarrassing, incompetent, and humiliating event in the history of the United States,” the former president posted to Truth Social. U.S. soldiers stand guard behind barbed wire as Afghans sit on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul on August 20, 2021, hoping to flee from the country after the Taliban’s military takeover of Afghanistan. (WAKIL KOHSAR/AFP via Getty Images) “Not the fact that we left, I was the one that got our soldier count down to 2 thousand in preparation for leaving, but the way we left, taking the military out first, 13 dead soldiers (with many badly injured), leaving many Americans behind, and giving the enemy over 85 billion dollars worth of the best military equipment in the world. So sad!” he … [Read more...] about Trump Slams Biden for ‘Incompetent’ Afghanistan Withdrawal

I t is 1.30 p.m. on a bright Sunday in Udvada in Gujarat. Rohinton Irani, owner of the Irani Bakery in Udvada, gets a call on his mobile phone. He smiles broadly as his friend Arvind Golakiya, an industrialist in Vapi, tells him that he is arriving in a few minutes. With a friendship that spans three decades, they know what their next stop is going to be: a lavish lunch at Rohinton’s Heritage Home in the small town. The coastal town of Udvada is home to the most sacred of Zoroastrian fire temples in India. The fire temple in the town draws Zoroastrian pilgrims from all parts of India and from around the world. But other tourists too visit the town for the Parsi cuisine it offers in many restaurants. The Parsis, a Zoroastrian community, came to Gujarat from Iran following its conquest by Arab Muslims in the seventh century. The immigrants were granted permission to stay by the local ruler, on the condition that they adopt the local language (Gujarati) and that their women adopt … [Read more...] about In Frames | Parsi paradise

The accused attacker of British author Salman Rushdie was transformed by a trip to Lebanon in 2018, when he became more religious and less outgoing, his mother has said. Lebanese-born Silvana Fardos, of Fairview, New Jersey, described her 24-year-old son Hadi Matar as “a moody introvert” increasingly fixated with Islam after the visit to see his estranged father. “One time he argued with me asking why I encouraged him to get an education instead of focusing on religion,” she told the website of Britain’s Daily Mail newspaper. “He was angry that I did not introduce him to Islam from a young age,” she said in an interview published online late Sunday. Matar was arrested at the scene of the attack on Rushdie, 75, at a literary event in upstate New York on Friday. He pleaded not guilty the following day to attempted murder and assault with a weapon charges and is being held without bail. Prosecutors have described a planned, premeditated assault on Rushdie, who was stabbed … [Read more...] about Mother of Man Who Stabbed Salman Rushdie Says 2018 Lebanon Visit ‘Changed’ Him

Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee released a report Sunday detailing the initial results of their investigation of the Biden administration’s handling of the Afghanistan withdrawal. Republican members interviewed people on the ground during the withdrawal, reviewed hundreds of situational reports, interviewed whistleblowers, obtained internal State Department memos, and took fact-finding trips to Pakistan, UAE, and Qatar. They also found that despite the Biden administration claiming there were only 100-200 Americans still left in Afghanistan, there were more than 800 Americans abandoned behind enemy lines. The report’s executive summary stated: The State Department has evacuated more than 800 American citizens from the country since August 31, 2022. That does not include the AMCITS evacuated by outside groups. And it is clearly dramatically more than the number of “about 100” that we were repeatedly told after the NEO ended. For perspective, the Iran … [Read more...] about GOP Report: Biden Left More than 800 Americans Behind in Afghanistan