KABUL, Afghanistan — The Taliban have captured a large, heavily defended city in northern Afghanistan in a major setback for the government, and the insurgents are approaching the capital less than three weeks before the U.S. hopes to complete its troop withdrawal.
The fall of Mazar-e-Sharif, the country’s fourth largest city, which Afghan forces and two powerful former warlords had pledged to defend, hands the insurgents control over all of northern Afghanistan, confining the Western-backed government to the center and east. Read More...
Explore More “They learned nothing and forgot nothing,” the French foreign minister Talleyrand is reputed to have complained about the country’s Bourbon monarchs, exiled after the French Revolution.
If President Emmanuel Macron’s pointless trip to Beijing and the anti-American undertones of his musings about Europe’s “strategic autonomy” are an indication, similarly few lessons have been drawn by France’s current leadership from the experience of the past 14 months.
Predictably, Macron has failed to convince Xi Jinping to condemn Russia’s war against Ukraine. Read More...
Kevin Owen McCarthy is an American politician, serving as House Minority Leader in the United States House of Representatives since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served as House Majority Leader under speakers John Boehner and Paul Ryan from 2014 to 2019.
Kevin McCarthy also served as the House Majority Leader from 2014 to 2019, and he is an influential politician in America. Kevin served as the chairman of California Young Republicans and the Young Republican National Federation. Read More...