Three Pentagon officials testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on two major topics Tuesday: America’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and two controversial phone calls with a defense official in China. The video above shows clips from the testimony. The three officials were Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley,…

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Pentagon officials announced last month’s drone strike killed civilians and not terrorists as once thought. “I am now convinced that as many as 10 civilians, including up to seven children, were tragically killed in that strike,” said Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie head of U.S. Central Command during a Pentagon briefing. “Moreover, we now assess that…

U.S. Gen. Mark Milley said the calls he made to China were “perfectly within the duties and responsibilities” of his position as Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He is referring to the two calls he made to Chinese Gen. Li Zuocheng following the Jan. 6th Capitol riots. The audio above includes Gen. Milley’s…

Preparations for a planned rally at the Unites States Capitol on Saturday continued Thursday, with crews putting up fencing around the building. The video above shows the fencing installation and the final result. A large group is expected to rally at the Capitol to protest the arrests of some 600 people in connection with a…

Ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks Saturday, officials in New York and Washington, D.C. began holding remembrance events Friday morning. The video above shows clips from some of those events. In D.C., Secretary of State Antony Blinken reflected on the mark the attacks left on the State Department. “Thousands of…

The Pentagon confirmed Monday it had finished its evacuation mission in Afghanistan. According to the head of the U.S. Central Command Gen. Frank McKenzie, the last U.S. planes took off just a minute before midnight Tuesday local time. Tuesday was the deadline President Joe Biden had set to have all Americans and Afghan allies out…

As the United States continues to evacuate Americans and Afghan allies out of Kabul Monday, the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate ISIS-K claimed responsibility for rocket fire targeting the city’s airport. The video above shows the scene in Kabul after the rocket fire, as well as Pentagon officials discussing evacuation efforts. The five rockets missed…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States military struck back at the Islamic State on Saturday, bombing an ISIS member in Afghanistan less than 48 hours after a devastating suicide bombing claimed by the group killed as many as 169 Afghans and 13 American service members at the Kabul airport. U.S. Central Command said the U.S.…

The threat of another Kabul attack still exists according to U.S. officials. They said more attacks could come ahead of the Tuesday deadline to withdraw American forces from Afghanistan. U.S. evacuations are still underway in the wake of two suicide bomb attacks that killed 169 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members. Those 13 service member…