US exit from Afghanistan ends 20 years of war
| After 20 years, the U.S. military experiment in Afghanistan has ended.
It was an end marred by chaos and death, as the Biden administration rushed to evacuate thousands of people fleeing Taliban rule and terrorists seized on the disorder to kill nearly 200 Afghans and 13 U.S. troops. But despite repeated pleas from lawmakers in both parties to extend the mission until everyone who wanted to could get out, President Biden stuck with his deadline to withdraw. |
