![]() troops, as well as forces deployed by our NATO Allies and operational partners, will be out of Afghanistan before we mark the 20th anniversary” of the September 11 attacks. In mid-April 2021, President Biden announced that while the United States would “begin final withdrawal” on May 1, “U.S. Footnote 10 Although Trump initially proposed withdrawal of troops by the 2020 election, Footnote 11 the administration eventually settled on a deadline of May 1, 2021. ![]() forces in exchange for Taliban assurances that the group would prevent actors within its territory from attacking the United States and its allies. In February 2020, the Trump administration reached an agreement with the Taliban that provided for a fourteen-month drawdown of U.S. Footnote 8 The conflict cost the United States more than two trillion dollars. Between 2001 and early 2021, 66,000 Afghan soldiers died, Footnote 7 and more than 46,300 civilians were killed. Footnote 6 The toll on Afghan forces and civilians was far higher. service members and personnel, as well as 20,722 wounded, Footnote 5 and the deaths of nearly 4,000 U.S. Footnote 4 Over the course of two decades, the conflict in Afghanistan resulted in the deaths of 2,461 U.S. forces in Afghanistan peaked in 2011 at more than 100,000 troops, Footnote 3 dropping to about 3,500 by March 2021. In an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) passed on September 18, 2001, Congress authorized the president to “use all necessary and appropriate force” against those involved in or harboring those involved in the September 11 attacks, Footnote 1 and the United States began military operations against the Afghan Taliban on October 7, 2001. Through the end of August, the United States and other countries conducted a major airlift operation to evacuate their nationals and Afghans considered at risk of Taliban reprisals, though many were left behind amid risks of renewed civil war and humanitarian crisis. ![]() The Afghan government collapsed, and President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. Over the course of a week and a half in mid-August, the Taliban captured most of Afghanistan's provincial capitals, entering Kabul on August 15. The withdrawal followed an early 2020 deal between the Taliban and the Trump administration, which conditioned the pullout on Taliban agreement not to harbor terrorists that target the United States and its allies. Biden announced on April 14, 2021, that the United States would withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan before the twenty-year anniversary of September 11, 2001, and NATO member states decided to depart the country simultaneously. Biden reported on August 31, 2021, that the last U.S. military began operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan, President Joseph R.
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