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WASHINGTON Nearly one year since the Taliban s brutal takeover in Afghanistan U S Senators Jim Risch R Idaho and Bob Menendez D N J ranking member and chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...United Nations to take targeted measures to hold the Taliban to account for its continued abuses of Afghan women and girls human rights In a new...

Russia s unjustified invasion of Ukraine violence in the Horn of Africa and continued unrest in Afghanistan and Yemen millions of people are currently at risk of hunger and starvation As this resolution...

Russia s unjustified invasion of Ukraine violence in the Horn of Africa and continued unrest in Afghanistan and Yemen millions of people are currently at risk of hunger and starvation As this resolution...

quickly retake territory and potentially seize Kabul the capital of Afghanistan This is a dark anniversary for our nation and for Afghanistan One year ago a State Department dissent cable reportedly warned...warned the Biden Administration of the rapidly deteriorating security situation in Afghanistan including the growing vulnerability that Kabul...

member of the Senate Appropriations Committee in introducing the Preventing Terrorist Transfers to Afghanistan Act S 4491 The bill which mirrors a bipartisan provision in the National Defense Authorization...Guantanamo Bay Cuba to Afghanistan As a recent UN report confirms the Taliban maintains a dangerous relationship with al Qaeda and has been...

promoting democracy rights and good governance In too many places democracy is in retreat From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe I am eager to hear how this budget specifically will help promote good governance combat...achieve complete elimination of the pay to slay program and use any and all leverage to do so On Afghanistan I m concerned by the...

Middle Eastern friends have seen increasingly restrictive security assistance policies the botched Afghanistan withdrawal an Iran policy that fails to deter regional terrorism and a previously lukewarm embrace...

create one of the worst food insecurity crises in decades Of significant concern are countries like Afghanistan Yemen Syria Lebanon Ethiopia South Sudan and Somalia which are already facing dire levels of food...

announced the designation of Afghanistan for Temporary Protected Status TPS for a period of 18 months As the United States continues to welcome and safely resettle Afghan refugees I am encouraged that...that the Biden administration heeded our calls to designate Afghanistan for Temporary Protected Status Extending TPS ensures that Afghans already...

the nation a discussion on lessons learned from security assistance or lack thereof in Iraq and Afghanistan and how those two efforts resulted in such remarkable failures Regarding Ukraine my wants are the...withdrawal from Afghanistan and that disaster demands we ask hard questions about U S security assistance Throughout a 20 year period the U S...