close Video Fox News Flash top headlines for October 28 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. Leading U.S. intelligence agencies failed to predict the rapid Taliban takeover of Afghanistan prior to the final withdrawal of American troops and instead offered scattershot assessments of the staying power of the Afghan military and government, a review of wide-ranging summaries of classified material by The Wall Street Journal shows. The nearly two dozen intelligence assessments from four different agencies haven't been previously reported. The assessments charted Taliban advances from spring 2020 through this July, forecasting that the group would continue to gain ground and that the U.S.-backed government in Kabul was unlikely to survive absent U.S. support. The analyses, however, differed over how long the Afghan government and military could hold on, the summaries show, with none foreseeing the group's lightning sweep into the Afghan capital by Aug. 15 while U.S. forces remained on the ground. President Biden delivers remarks on the end of the war in Afghanistan in the State Dining Room at the White House in August. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) FAMILIES OF AMERICAN HOSTAGES SAY BIDEN IS KEEPING THEM 'IN THE DARK' A month… Read full this story
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