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Timeline: The U.S. War in Afghanistan - Council on Foreign Relations

The Taliban surged back to power two decades after U.S.-led forces toppled their regime in what led to the United States' longest war.

After Action Review on Afghanistan - State Department

The decisions of both President Trump and President Biden to withdraw U.S. military forces from Afghanistan during this period provide the overall context for ...

Kabul falls to the Taliban after U.S. withdrawal | August 15, 2021

On August 15, 2021—just two weeks before U.S. troops were set to officially withdraw from Afghanistan—Taliban leaders enter the capital city of ...

Instability in Afghanistan | Global Conflict Tracker

The Taliban, a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist and predominantly Pashtun movement, controlled most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001.

Afghanistan Three Years after the Taliban Takeover | Crisis Group

In August 2021, as foreign troops departed, Taliban insurgents seized power in Kabul, bringing the country back under their rule.

Fall of Kabul (2021) - Wikipedia

On 15 August 2021, Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul was captured by the Taliban after a major insurgent offensive that began in May 2021.

During and After the Fall of Kabul: Examining the Administration's ...

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Three Years after the Fall of Kabul, Afghan Activists Remain in ...

August 15 marks the third anniversary of the fall of Kabul in 2021, when Taliban forces captured Afghanistan's capital and completed their armed takeover of ...

Afghan Taliban - National Counterterrorism Center | Groups

Contains many features across the full range of issues pertaining to international terrorism: terrorist groups, wanted terrorists, and technical pages on ...

Two weeks of chaos: A timeline of the U.S. pullout of Afghanistan

The fall of Kabul to the Taliban stunned the world. Afghans fled to the airport in droves. A suicide bombing killed nearly 200 people.

Two Years After the Fall of Kabul, the US Still has Important Work to Do

"Afghanistan: Two Years Later" is a special series for Asia Dispatches marking the two-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal and Taliban ...

What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan ...

SIGAR released its 11th lessons learned report examining the past 20 years of the U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghanistan. After spending $145 billion ...

Two years after fall of Kabul, tens of thousands of Afghans languish ...

But since the U.S. left Afghanistan it's only admitted 6,862 of these Afghan refugees, mostly P-1 and P-2 visa applicants, according to State ...

How the Taliban has changed Afghanistan, a year after taking power

The Taliban are a predominantly Pashtun, Islamic fundamentalist group that returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021 after waging a 20-year insurgency.

Ex-US generals who oversaw Afghan exit describe chaos and ... - BBC

Two former generals who led the chaotic US withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021 have testified to Congress. Mark Milley, former Joint Chiefs ...

U.S. Relations With Afghanistan - United States Department of State

In 2012, the United States and Afghanistan concluded the Strategic Partnership Agreement to strengthen our bilateral relationship, support ...

Reflections on the Fall of Kabul One Year Later - CSIS

August 15, 2022, marks the one-year anniversary of the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. On September 12, 2020, 21 representatives of the Afghan government ...

Two Years into Taliban Rule, New Shocks Weaken Afghan Economy

The opium ban, falling aid and regime actions against women will exacerbate poverty, worsen hunger and increase outmigration.

The Collapse of Afghanistan | Journal of Democracy

Conventional wisdom suggests that the Afghan republic fell because societal values were incompatible with democracy and the country was simply ungovernable.

How Afghanistan fell to the Taliban so quickly - CNBC

"While the end result and bloodletting once we left was never in doubt, the speed of collapse is unreal," one Afghan War veteran told CNBC.