Desperate pleas for help come into Nebraska directly from Afghanistan. "Almost everybody is saying, 'We are hiding in our basements, trying to stay safe. The Taliban are everywhere. It's not safe to go outside. Please help us,'" said Ben 'Felix' Ungerman, deputy chief of staff for Republican Congressman Don Bacon. "We are getting overwhelmed with requests for assistance and help,"… Read more »

Although Congress is currently in recess, lawmakers have taken to the airwaves and social media in recent days to offer support, recriminations and other commentaries on the U.S.’s departure from Afghanistan after 20 years and the Taliban’s rapid conquest of the country. In interviews with Jewish Insider on Monday, four House of the 74 total House veterans — including two… Read more »

OMAHA, Neb. (KMTV) — Tom Gouttierre is the retired Dean of International Studies and Programs and the retired Director of the Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska Omaha. He first arrived in Afghanistan in 1965 as a Peace Corps volunteer. He taught high school and eventually coached the country’s national basketball team. Among his students was President Ashfar… Read more »

Republicans on the House Armed Services Committee demanded President Biden provide Congress with a plan to prevent terror groups from using Afghanistan as a "safe haven" after the Taliban takeover, while criticizing his response to the worsening security and humanitarian situation unfolding.  The top Republican on the committee, Rep. Mike Rogers, along with his GOP colleagues… Read more »

Dozens of members of Congress are joining the scramble to evacuate people trapped in Afghanistan, urging President Joe Biden's administration to expedite the relocations as efforts to flee grow more dire — and deadly — by the hour. Multiple Democrats and Republicans say distressed calls to help evacuate U.S. residents, Afghan interpreters and other asylum-seekers have flooded their… Read more »

Omaha, Neb. – Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02), a nearly 30-year veteran and retired brigadier general who was deployed four times to the Middle East, issued the following statement on Pres. Biden’s address concerning Afghanistan: “We have to address what the president didn’t say.   “Number one, President Biden didn’t take responsibility for the disaster that is happening… Read more »

President Joe Biden is two to three months too late into developing a plan for removing interpreters from Afghanistan in the wake of the U.S. pullout of troops from the country, leaving them and others who worked to support the United States and coalition forces in danger of death at the hands of the Taliban, Rep. Don Bacon told Newsmax Saturday.  "We're just starting to get the… Read more »

ASHLAND — As Taliban forces continued to race across Afghanistan on their way to Kabul, members of Nebraska's all-Republican congressional delegation expressed outrage Thursday at the swift withdrawal of U.S. troops ordered by President Joe Biden. The drama unfolding in Afghanistan half a world away briefly threw the 2021 federal legislative summit hosted by the Lincoln… Read more »

Omaha, Neb.— Rep. Don Bacon (NE-02) has released the following statement, expressing his outrage regarding the Biden Administration’s disastrous retreat and the rapidly deteriorating situation in Afghanistan: “President Biden’s reckless decision to continue the withdrawal from Afghanistan has set up the potential takeover of Kabul by the Taliban. Our national security interests are… Read more »

The Army Ranger Creed reads: I will never leave a fallen comrade to fall into the hands of the enemy. I lived by these words. That includes the day a suicide bomber hit and killed four men in my patrol in Asadabad, Afghanistan: Sergeant Major Kevin J. Griffin, Major Thomas E. Kennedy, Major Walter D. Gray, and USAID Foreign Service Officer Mr. Ragaei Abdelfattah. I think about them… Read more »