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The decade-long war in Afghanistan has also been increasingly compared to the Vietnam War, and increasingly characterized as a quagmire. [51] [135] [136] In the spring of 2010, the war in Afghanistan surpassed the length of official United States participation in the Vietnam War, 8 years and 5 months, as the longest-running U.S. war ever.
On 23 July 2016, Afghan and US forces began an offensive to clear Nangarhar province of Islamic State militants hours after the Kabul bombing, the operation was dubbed "Wrath of the Storm" involving both Afghan regular army and special forces and is the Afghan army's first major strategic offensive of the summer. The estimated size of the ISIL ...
Rumsfeld announced in mid-2002 that "The war is over in Afghanistan," to the disbelief of State Department, CIA, and military officials in the country. As a result, Rumsfeld downplayed the need for an Afghan army of even 70,000 troops, far fewer than the 250,000 envisaged by Karzai. [264]
Here's what an Afghan commander had to say about the loss. Afghan general says army was 'betrayed' by politics and blames Trump, Biden, and Afghan leaders for losing the war to the Taliban Skip to ...
Afghan Army units neutralizes an IED in Sangin, Helmand province. On 2 May 2012, Presidents Karzai and Obama signed a strategic partnership agreement between the two countries, after the US president had arrived unannounced in Kabul on the first anniversary of Osama bin Laden's death. [260]
U.S. officials had hoped that the Afghan government would still be in control by the time American troops departed by a scheduled September deadline, but the Afghan army rapidly collapsed as U.S ...
Afghanistan’s former president said Sunday the United States came to his country to fight extremism and bring stability to his war-tortured nation and is leaving nearly 20 years later having ...
The United States has been involved in the war, in one way or another, for forty-two years. [4] They funded and armed the Afghan mujahideen fighting against Soviet-backed communist government. [4] In 2001, U.S. took control of Afghanistan after the invasion. During U.S. Army's stay in Afghanistan, they trained Afghan Army. It is estimated that ...