Biden requests funding to help bring 95,000 Afghans to U.S.

Biden requests funding to help bring 95,000 Afghans to U.S.

The Biden administration plans to request funds from Congress to bring some 95,000 Afghans to the United States and help resettle them, a sign of both U.S. commitments to allies and the likelihood that efforts to evacuate them will drag on for months.

Biden warns Kabul airport attackers: “We will hunt them down”

Joe Biden on Thursday warned those responsible for the attack on Kabul airport, in which 13 U.S. soldiers have been killed, of imminent retaliation. “We will hunt them down and make them pay,” said the U.S. president, who admitted it had been “a very difficult day” for him.