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Fall of Kabul; Part of the 2021 Taliban offensive of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the war on terror: Clockwise from top left: Afghans fleeing Kabul Airport aboard a US Boeing C-17 Globemaster III, US Marines assisting at an evacuation checkpoint at Hamid Karzai International Airport, coalition soldiers assist a child during the evacuation, armed Taliban fighters in Kabul, Taliban ...
U.S. officials say they are racing to evacuate as many people from Afghanistan as possible before the end of the month, when America's 20-year military presence in the country is scheduled to end.
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 ...
October 30: An Afghan army helicopter, probably a Mi-17, crashed in the Farah province in bad weather in the western Farah province, killing all 25 on board, including senior officials. [29] [30] At the time of the crash it was reported as being the eighth Afghan military helicopter crash in 2018. [31]
Contrasting the available images from 2019 and 2020, when the US and Afghan forces jointly managed the bases, with images from now, under the Taliban regime, shows the poor state of these vehicles.
Restrepo is a 2010 American documentary film about the War in Afghanistan directed by British photojournalist Tim Hetherington and American journalist Sebastian Junger.It explores the year that Junger and Hetherington spent, on assignment for Vanity Fair, [4] in Afghanistan's Korengal Valley, embedded with the Second Platoon, B Company, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne ...
Afghanistan’s military “will certainly collapse” without some continued American support once all U.S. troops are withdrawn, the top U.S. general for the Middle East told Congress Thursday.
A U.S. Army soldier from the 82nd Airborne Division with a dead insurgent's hand on his shoulder. On April 18, 2012, the Los Angeles Times released photos of U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of dead insurgents, [1] [2] after a soldier in the 82nd Airborne Division gave the photos to the Los Angeles Times to draw attention to "a breakdown in security, discipline and professionalism" [3 ...