SecurityNews
US Intercepts Rockets Fired at Kabul Airport
The U.S. on Monday intercepted as many as five rockets launched at the airport in Kabul where evacuation efforts are ongoing. The White House said… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The View From Omaha Beach
NORMANDY, France—I fulfilled a lifelong aspiration this past week by traveling with The Heritage Foundation to visit the Normandy beaches where, in 1944, tens of… Read More
SecurityCommentary
We Hear You: America’s Retreat From Afghanistan
Editor’s note: The Biden administration’s execution of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan provoked a variety of responses from The Daily Signal’s audience, as illustrated by… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Franklin Delano Roosevelt vs. John F. Kennedy vs. Joe Robinette Biden
In his address to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: We will not only… Read More
SecurityNews
Who Funds ISIS-K, the Terrorist Group That Took Responsibility for the Kabul Attack?
The ISIS affiliate group in Afghanistan has largely amassed funding with the help of global terrorist-financing networks and its main sponsor, the Islamic State of… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Biden’s Disastrous Foreign Policy Instincts
The unfolding disaster in Afghanistan is a bipartisan, transadministrational failure. It is a humiliation. The fact is that after 20 years, after thousands of lives… Read More
SecurityNews
4 Keys to What’s Next in Afghanistan as 13 US Service Members Die in Attack
A deadly terrorist attack Thursday outside Kabul’s international airport demonstrate that U.S. evacuation efforts there, as well as the general situation in Afghanistan, are deteriorating. … Read More
SecurityNews
Report: ISIS-K Militants Surround Kabul Airport, More Attacks ‘Likely’
Hundreds of ISIS-K militants have surrounded the Kabul airport and are expected to conduct more attacks, a source familiar with the situation told Fox News…. Read More
SecurityAnalysis
Where Are America’s ‘Feminists’ Fighting for Afghan Women?
After four years of marching in the streets and claiming “oppression” under President Donald Trump, many of the country’s so-called feminists are conspicuously silent about… Read More
SecurityAnalysis
Biden Living in ‘Fantasyland’ on Afghanistan Pullout, Sen. Joni Ernst Says
President Joe Biden is moving ahead with plans to evacuate all U.S. citizens and troops from Afghanistan by Aug. 31, providing the Taliban does not… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Hey, Mr. President: What’s the Counterterrorism Strategy for Afghanistan?
With the 20th anniversary of 9/11 almost here, I’m hoping someone in the Biden administration is giving some deep thought to the counterterrorism challenges we’ll likely… Read More
SecurityCommentary
The Steep Cost of Mishandling Our Withdrawal From Afghanistan
In March 1975, an American president was fighting to save an American ally from being overrun by an implacable enemy. The North Vietnamese Army, mounting… Read More
SecurityNews
Biden Not Certain How Many Americans Stranded in Afghanistan
President Joe Biden vowed Friday to evacuate every American in Afghanistan who wants to go home, but seconds later said he can’t promise a “final… Read More
InternationalCommentary
World Must Not Finance Taliban’s Drive for Greater Power and Influence
Following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan last weekend, the International Monetary Fund made it clear that Afghanistan will not be able to access the IMF’s… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Biden Can’t Escape Blame for Afghanistan Fiasco
The American-nurtured Afghan military of the last 20 years that had suffered thousands of prior casualties evaporated in a few hours in the encirclement of… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Biden’s Surrender
After searing criticism from Democrats and Republicans about how he has mishandled the withdrawal of the remaining American forces, diplomats, their families, and contractors from… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Biden’s 5 Mistruths on Afghanistan
President Joe Biden hurriedly helicoptered back to Washington, D.C., from Camp David on Monday to attempt to explain the disaster that unfolded in Afghanistan, which… Read More
International Analysis
What a Retired General Who Served 10 Tours in Afghanistan Has to Say
As Afghanistan continues to dominate the news cycle, we learn more about what led to the end of America’s longest war. But sometimes lost in… Read More
InternationalNews
6 Reasons China, Not Just Taliban, Benefits as US Exits From Afghanistan
The U.S. abandonment of Afghanistan presents an opportunity for China, but one that the communist regime likely will take cautiously. Beyond Afghanistan, a major Chinese… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Senate Democrat Pressures Biden Administration to Soften Iran Policy
The Biden administration, whose failed efforts to appease the Taliban with a one-sided “peace” agreement have been exposed as a catastrophic error in Afghanistan, is… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Biden’s Afghanistan Exit Ignores Lessons From Iraq
President Joe Biden defended his decision to order a total United States withdrawal from Afghanistan, stating, “Our only vital national interest in Afghanistan remains today what it… Read More
SecurityNews
Senate Intelligence Chairman Intends to Probe Calamitous Afghan Exit
The Democrat chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee has called for an investigation into the Biden administration’s execution of a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan that… Read More
SecurityAnalysis
Here’s What You Need to Know About the Situation in Afghanistan
The Afghanistan War appears to be over. After nearly 20 years of fighting, America’s longest conflict has come to a bitter conclusion. Afghanistan’s capital city,… Read More
PoliticsNews
Fall of Afghanistan Seen as Historic Failure for Biden
When candidate Joe Biden was asked if he would bear some responsibility for the outcome of a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan if the Taliban took… Read More
SecurityNews
What These 22 Lawmakers and Pundits Are Saying About Taliban’s Takeover of Afghanistan
After 20 years, about $1 trillion, and the loss of 2,448 American service members and 3,846 U.S. contractors, the Taliban has taken control of Afghanistan. … Read More
SecurityCommentary
I Served in Afghanistan. This Chaos Was Avoidable, and Biden Is Squarely to Blame.
The scenes at Kabul’s international airport are heartbreaking. Thousands of Afghans, trying to flee the grip of the Taliban, swamped the airport hoping to catch… Read More
SecurityCommentary
Don’t Blame Trump for Afghanistan’s Collapse. Blame Obama.
President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw abruptly from Afghanistan, without any discernible exit strategy, has plunged that nation into a bloody, ruinous chaos. After pleading with… Read More
SecurityNews
Taliban Captures 3 Major Cities in Afghanistan, Advances on Capital
The Taliban took control of three major cities in Afghanistan’s southwest region as the insurgents set their sights on the capital city of Kabul. The… Read More
InternationalCommentary
Nigeria, West Africa Increasingly Beset by Kidnappings, Terrorism
While much of the world has been focused on combating the global coronavirus pandemic, extremist and criminal groups have been carrying out kidnapping-for-ransom raids on… Read More
SecurityNews
Big Tech’s Task Force on Terrorism Tracks Far-Right Militias as Extremists
The tech industry’s alliance against terrorism has announced it will begin tracking content from far-right organizations in a shared counterterrorism database used by major tech… Read More
