GOP gives highest honour on 13 troops killed during Afghan withdrawal
House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday posthumously presented Congress' highest honour the Congressional Gold Medal to 13 US service members who were killed during the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan, even as the politics of a presidential election swirled around the event. Both Democrats and Republicans supported the legislation to honour the 13 US troops, who were killed along with more than 170 Afghans in a suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate at Kabul's Airport in August 2021. President... Читать дальше...