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The United States Air Force captured footage of service members boarding a military aircraft on August 30, describing it as showing some of the last American troops to leave Afghanistan.According ...
The United States completed its withdrawal from Afghanistan late Monday, ending America's longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures ...
Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, was the last to board the final flight out of the Kabul airport Monday. Army general was the last soldier to leave Afghanistan [Video]
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 United States has conducted two withdrawals of United States troops from Afghanistan: Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016), draw down of United States Armed Forces in the Afghanistan war; 2020–2021 U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, withdrawal of all United States combat forces from Afghanistan
The last two Americans to board an evacuation flight were acting Ambassador Ross Wilson, the top US diplomat in Afghanistan, and the final soldier to leave Afghanistan, Major General Chris Donahue, commanding general of the 82nd Airborne Division. [178] The final flight, a US Air Force C-17, departed at 11:59 p.m. (Kabul time) on 30 August. [179]
After nearly 20 years, the last American troops have left Afghanistan, concluding the United States’ longest war and the largest noncombatant evacuation mission in U.S. military history.
Troop levels remained roughly constant under U.S. president Barack Obama's predecessor, former president George W. Bush, with around 30,000 American troops deployed in Afghanistan. [5] [6] [7] In January, about 3,000 U.S. soldiers from the 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 10th Mountain Division moved into the provinces of Logar and Wardak.