Biden Was Right  —  In 2017, I arrived at Kabul's Hamid Karzai Airport as part of a congressional staff delegation.  Even though the U.S. embassy stood a mere four miles away, safety concerns necessitated our helicoptering from a recently constructed multimillion-dollar transit facility instead of traveling by road.

The latest on Afghanistan: Four Afghans dead after fall from US plane wheel well  —  Here's the latest on the rapidly unfolding events related to Afghanistan:  —  Report: Afghans who worked for US may temporarily go to bases in Wisconsin and Texas  —  The U.S. intends to evacuate tens …

US reaches deal with Taliban on evacuations: report  —  The U.S. has reached a deal with the Taliban to ensure that evacuations from Kabul's airport can take place without interference from the group, according to a report by The Associated Press.  —  The deal was reached in talks in Doha …

Afghan security forces' wholesale collapse was years in the making  —  In the summer of 2011, Army Lt. Gen. William Caldwell IV made a round of public appearances to boast that he had finally solved a problem that had kept U.S. troops bogged down in Afghanistan for a decade.

After Sunday It's Even More Clear Biden Was Right  —  Americans, or at least the commentating classes, are watching aghast as events unfold in Afghanistan.  Some are second-guessing the wisdom of withdrawal - after all, how hard is it to maintain a few thousand soldiers there permanently?

'Please Don't Leave Us Behind.  We Will Be Great Americans.'  —  An interview with a U.S.-trained Afghan Air Force pilot, now hiding from the Taliban.  —  AFGHAN AIR FORCE PILOTS LAND THEIR UH-60 BLACKHAWKS ON A NARROW LANDING STRIP DURING A RESUPPLY MISSION TO AN OUTPOST IN GHAZNI PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN, SUNDAY, MAY 9, 2021.

Three Killed in Kabul Airport as Afghans Scramble to Escape Taliban  —  Mass evacuations follow the insurgents' capture of Kabul after a rapid sweep of the country  —  At least three people were killed by gunfire Monday morning in chaotic scenes at the passenger terminal of Kabul's international airport …

The fall of Afghanistan in 2021 is the result of years of American delusion  —  On Sunday morning, Taliban fighters captured Afghanistan's Bagram Airfield — the symbol and source of U.S. power projection in the region for 20 years — releasing thousands of prisoners.

An Afghan woman in Kabul: ‘Now I have to burn everything I achieved’  —  A university student tells of seeing all around her the ‘fearful faces of women and ugly faces of men who hate women’  —  arly on Sunday morning I was heading to university for a class when a group of women came running out from the women's dormitory.

Who's to blame for Afghanistan?  —  With help from Lara Seligman and Daniel Lippman  —  Welcome to National Security Daily, POLITICO's newsletter on the global events roiling Washington and keeping the administration up at night.  I'm Alex Ward, your guide to what's happening inside the Pentagon …

Joe Biden is facing a crisis of competence  —  (CNN)At the heart of Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign was a single word: competence.  —  After four years of Donald Trump's incompetence in, well, everything, the Biden argument was that the country badly needed a steady hand on the tiller …