House Republicans have demanded more answers from the Biden administration about the turbulent removal of troops from Afghanistan in August 2021.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee will hold its first hearing under Republican leadership Wednesday involving the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.
Amid the withdrawal, 13 U.S. troops were killed in an attack near a Kabul airport. More than 100 Afghan citizens were also killed.In a two-week span, more than 80,000 people were flown out of Kabul. As the U.S. left, the Taliban retook control of the Afghanistan government. “The Biden administration’s own internal assessments understood that the Afghan military would be unable to defend the country from the Taliban without American air support, military advisors, and contractors, who they relied upon to enable the operation of the Afghan Air Force,” the report said. “The president was warned repeatedly that the return of the Taliban was a question of when, not if.
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