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The withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan in 2021
President Biden can be credibly credited with ending one major, long-running U.S. combat engagement: the American combat mission in Afghanistan, concluded with the August 2021 withdrawal from that cou...
The claim that "" is contradicted by decades of public records: and non‑ coalition forces participated in combat, major offensives, training missions and suffered substantial casualties alongside US f...
did not remain in after the 2021 withdrawal; and coalition forces completed an organized drawdown that ended with the last military aircraft leaving on August 30, 2021 . What remained — and what domin...
simultaneously expanded certain outward-facing footprints and high‑profile capabilities, continued long‑running counterterrorism and regional missions, and pursued selective withdrawals and drawdowns—...
President Biden departed from the Trump-era Doha agreement by replacing a May 1, 2021, date-certain exit with a phased drawdown that began May 1 but set a U.S. final withdrawal by late summer 2021—ini...