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The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war.In February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban signed the United States–Taliban deal in Doha, Qatar, [7] which stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and in return for the Taliban's counter-terrorism commitments, provided ...
The current turmoil in Afghanistan resulted from the Biden administration's immense failure to execute the US exit, Eurasia Group founder and political scientist Ian Bremmer tells Yahoo Finance in ...
August 18, 2021 at 9:30 AM
“By January 2021, the Taliban was in the strongest military position it had been since 9/11 [and] we had the smallest number of US forces in Afghanistan since 2001,” he said, arguing that the ...
They were reportedly more violent, and uncontrollable, often bringing superior video-production or bomb making expertise. [188] By 2010, the Taliban had as many as 25,000 dedicated soldiers, almost as many as before 9/11. [189] General McChrystal, newly appointed as US commander in Afghanistan, said that the Taliban had gained the upper hand.
Following the withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, in addition to a rapid offensive conducted by the Taliban, the Afghan National Army largely disintegrated, [7] with large numbers of ANA soldiers abandoning their posts or surrendering en masse to the Taliban, [8] allowing the Taliban to capture large quantities of US-provided military equipment, vehicles and ...
With U.S. officials struggling to explain why America’s longest war ended in chaos, a series of interviews revealed there’s plenty of blame to go around.
Several events in early 2002 can be seen as the conclusion of the first phase of the US-led war in Afghanistan. The first was the dispersal of the major groups of the Taliban and al-Qaeda after the end of Anaconda. In February 2002, the United States decided to not expand international security forces beyond Kabul. [265]