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The German military late on Tuesday concluded its withdrawal from Afghanistan after almost two decades, finishing Germany's deadliest military mission since World War 2. "Our last troops left ...
Two German soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack that also claimed the lives of Afghan police chief, General Mohammed Daoud Daoud and the Takhar Provincial Chief of Police. Five German soldiers were wounded - among them German General Markus Kneip, commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Northern Afghanistan.
Ten French troops were killed and a further 21 wounded in the attack – the heaviest loss of troops France has suffered since deploying to Afghanistan in 2001. A total of 44 French soldiers were killed in Tagab district, by far the deadliest area patrolled by the force and a stronghold of the Taliban and other insurgent groups.
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 ...
Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of the 82nd Airborne Division, was the last to board the final flight out of the Kabul airport Monday.
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 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. [179] The final flight, a US Air Force C-17, departed at 11:59 p.m. (Kabul time) on 30 August. [180]
The failure lies not in the decision to exit Afghanistan but in the way the U.S. went about leaving. Leaving Afghanistan Was the Right Call, But It May Haunt Biden—and the U.S.—Forever Skip to ...