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April 15, 2021
WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden announced on Wednesday it’s “time to end” America’s longest war with the unconditional withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan where they have spent two decades in a bloody, largely fruitless battle against the Taliban.
Dubbed the “forever war,” the US military onslaught in Afghanistan began in response to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
Now, 20 years later—after almost 2,400 US military and tens of thousands of Afghan deaths—Biden is naming September 11 as the deadline by which the last US soldiers will have finally departed. The war is at best at a stalemate.