The secretary of state's testimony comes months after Republicans issued a scathing report on the Biden administration's handling of the exit from Afghanistan.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken is making a long-awaited appearance before the House Foreign Affairs Committee just weeks before departing office after months

Secretary of State Antony Blinken will testify to a Republican-led House of Representatives committee on Wednesday on the August 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, ending a long dispute with the panel weeks before the end of his term.

He will discuss the withdrawal “in the context of a two-decades-long war that took the lives of 2,500 Americans and cost more than $2 trillion,” a source said.

Ga., and Gold Star father Steven Nikoui, whose son Kareem Nikoui lost his life in Afghanistan, react to news of Sec. of State Antony Blinken's upcoming testimony on the Afghanistan withdrawal.

The House of Representatives Foreign Affairs committee is set to hear Secretary of State Antony Blinken speak on the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal on Wednesday. Thirteen U.S. service members and 170 Afghans died in a suicide bombing at the Abbey Gate entrance of Hamid Karzai International Airport during the withdrawal.

Lawmakers are set to question Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the United States' withdrawal from Afghanistan at a hearing this morning. NewsNation's Elina Shirazi reports that committee members plan on grilling Blinken over who ultimately had top authority over the withdrawal.