A video of Taliban piloting one of the several Black Hawk helicopters left behind by US forces in Afghanistan has gone viral on the internet. A person can also be seen hanging from the helicopter in the video. Many western reporters posted this video on Twitter, claiming that the Taliban killed a man and hoisted him from a US military helicopter patrolling the Kandahar area. The man’s identity is unknown, there is speculation that he worked for the United States as an interpreter. That, however, has yet to be confirmed. It’s also unclear whether the individual was alive or dead. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

A man who led efforts in his Central Texas community against mask wearing and other preventative measures during the coronavirus pandemic has died from COVID-19, one month after being admitted to the emergency room. Caleb Wallace died on Saturday, his wife Jessica Wallace said on a GoFundMe page where she had been posting updates on his condition, the San Angelo Standard-Times reported Saturday. He was 30 years old and a father of three children. His wife is pregnant with their fourth child. “Caleb has peacefully passed on. He will forever live in our hearts and minds,” Jessica Wallace wrote. On July 4, 2020, Caleb Wallace helped organize “The Freedom Rally” in San Angelo.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) criticizes Biden handling of Afghanistan: “Pres. Biden said he wanted to take this, Afghanistan, off the plate for future presidents. He has done the exact opposite. For the next 20 years, American presidents will be dealing with this catastrophe.” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggests President Biden should be impeached for handling of Afghanistan: “I think he’s been derelict in his duties as commander in chief.” “Joe Biden’s fingerprints are all over this,” Sen. Graham (R-SC) says, arguing the president “deserves a lot of accountability for this”: “He’s created the conditions for ISIS to flourish in Afghanistan. They have doubled the number of troops available because of the jail break.” Sen.

Kathy McCollum is the mother Rylee McCollum, who is was one of 13 U.S. service members killed in a bombing attack last week in the Afghanistan capital of Kabul. Kathy went on a radio talk show to say her son wouldn’t have been killed if Donald Trump were still president, and rather said the blood should be on the hands of President Joe Biden and those who voted for him. “I just want all you Democrats who cheated in the election, or who voted for him legitimately, you just killed my son. With a dementia-ridden piece of (expletive removed) who doesn’t even know he’s in the White House who still thinks he’s a senator. LISTEN TO THE HEARTBREAKING AUDIO CLIP BELOW: Mother of U.S.

President Joe Biden vowed Saturday to keep up airstrikes against the Islamic extremist group whose suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed scores of Afghans and 13 American service members. Another terror attack, he said, is “highly likely” this weekend as the U.S. winds down its evacuation. The Pentagon said the remaining contingent of U.S. forces at the airport, now numbering fewer than 4,000, had begun their final withdrawal ahead of Biden’s deadline for ending the evacuation on Tuesday. After getting briefed on a U.S. drone mission in eastern Afghanistan that the Pentagon said killed two members of the Islamic State group’s Afghanistan affiliate early Saturday, Biden said the extremists can expect more. “This strike was not the last,” Biden said in a statement.

The parents of Barel Shmueli, an undercover Border Police officer who was shot in the head at point-blank range on Shabbos by an Arab terrorist through a hole in the border wall, are reeling. Barel, who is an only child, is still in critical condition in Soroka Hospital. He was scheduled to be discharged from the army in only two months and was not even supposed to be at the border on Shabbos but was sent there in place of another soldier. Barel’s mother, Nitza, said on Monday: “Yesterday he underwent eight hours of surgery. Eye surgery and head surgery. He only has one eye left. We’re davening for nissim.

In a last attempt to save their daughter’s life, Avraham and Chaya Fixsler called on the government to intervene, The Jewish Chronicle reported on Friday. “We ask Boris Johnson and [Health Secretary] Sajid Javid to intervene and request the Trust reconsider their position and allow Alta to come home to her family,” the parents said in a statement. Former MP Ivan Lewis, who is Jewish, also called on the government to intervene. “It is not too late to show some compassion for the grieving parents and respect for their religious beliefs,” he said.

Two former Torrance, California officers are facing vandalism charges after they allegedly spray-painted a swastika on a car they impounded, the Los Angeles County District Attorney announced Thursday. More than a dozen other officers have been placed on leave after the investigation revealed they allegedly shared racist, homophobic and antisemitic messages. Former officers Christopher Tomsic, 29, and Cody Weldin, 28, were charged with one felony count each of vandalism and conspiracy to commit vandalism, according to a statement from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Both men pleaded not guilty to the charges, it said.

YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of Dr. Joshua (Yehushua) Weinstein Z”L the founder of Shema Kolainu-Hear Our voices, a school and center for children with autism, who was suddenly niftar on Erev Shabbos in Yerushalayim after suffering a massive heart attack. The news came as a shock as Dr. Weinstein was as vibrant as ever and in the midst of his myriad activities on behalf of the community. Dr. Weinstein was the founder of various community based organizations including Shema Kolainu, Icare4Autism and most recently Emunas Bais Yaakov High School and was a bal tzedakah who cared deeply about every individual. As a respected member of the Ungvarer Beis Medrash for many decades, Dr.

Israel’s coronavirus czar Salman Zarka said on Wednesday that Israel is at war with COVID as Israel grapples with a mounting fatality rate. Israel has confirmed over 120 coronavirus deaths in the past week alone, twice the number of deaths in the entire month of July and over 15 times the number of deaths in the month of June. Speaking at a hearing of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee regarding restrictions intended to quell the virus outbreak, Zarka said: “I think that we’re in a real war. We’re in a critical situation until erev Rosh Hashana or chalilah, the coronavirus will prevail and we’ll reach scenarios we don’t want, like during the first or second lockdown.” “I’m not trying to scare anyone, this is the data,” Zarka said.