Twenty years of war for the United States and coalition partners in Afghanistan ended with the collapse of the Afghan government after U.S. troops withdrew from most of the country. The rapid advance of the Taliban forced an evacuation of more than 100,000 people from Afghanistan over the course of the last few weeks, and led to the deaths of 13 U.S. service members. Here's how the fall of Afghanistan happened so quickly, and what's next for the war-torn country.
A U.S. Marine checks a woman as she goes through the Evacuation Control Center during an evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, August 28, 2021.WASHINGTON — The United States has finished its evacuation efforts from Kabul's airport, the Pentagon said Monday, effectively ending America's longest war.
About 122,300 people have been evacuated since the end of July, including about 5,500 U.S. citizens and their families.near Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, the site where U.S. forces are sprinting to carry out final evacuation flights since the Taliban gained control of the country two weeks ago.
The Pentagon said Saturday that it had begun its retrograde process — the withdrawal of U.S. service members. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said that less than 5,000 service members remain in Afghanistan, adding that the U.S. would no longer provide an exact number due to security conditions.
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