The House Foreign Affairs Committee heard testimony from Secretary of State Antony Blinken Wednesday as he defended the Biden administration decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan in 2021.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as an ending of the country's longest war that freed resources for other conflicts, in testimony in the House of Representatives on Wednesday.

Under fire from congressional Republicans about one of the darkest moments of Joe Biden's presidency, Secretary of State Antony Blinken defended the administration's handling of the disastrous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan,