out a humanitarian mission to bring americans and their allies to safety. 6,000 americans evacuated since august 14th. 122,000 afghan allies. your message to americans and afghan allies who were left behind? so the military phase of this operation has ended. the diplomatic sequel to that will now begin. in the past 20 years of war, more than 20,000 american service members were wounded fighting against the taliban. the group that harbored the al-qaeda terrorists who struck the united states on september 11th, that same group marched into kabul on august 14th, 20 years later. today they are back in control of kabul. on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al-qaeda terrorist training camps and military installation of the taliban rerah jet stream in afghanistan. the u.s. congress authorized the president go after the 9/11 attackers exactly one week after the attacks on 18th, 2001.