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| Last updated  9:42, 04 July 2021 BST The UK is expected to bring home the last of its troops in Afghanistan this weekend, which would bring an end to Britains official role in the 20-year conflict. According to reports, the final 750 soldiers, who are currently part of a NATO training mission, are due to leave today (Sunday 4 July). Credit: PA Speaking to The Guardian, defence sources said that the training mission is to be completed in the next few days, before formal announcements are m...

Associated Press For the United States and its coalition partners, the endgame is murky. Although all combat troops and 20 years of accumulated war materiel will soon be gone, the head of U.S Central Command, Gen. Frank McKenzie, will have authority until September to defend Afghan forces against the Taliban. He can do so by ordering strikes with U.S. warplanes based outside of Afghanistan, according to defense officials who discussed details of military planning on condition of ano...

Sunday, 4 July 2021, 5:15 pm From the Bagram Airbase they left, leaving behind a piece of the New York World Trade Centre that collapsed with such graphic horror on September 11, 2001. As with previous occupiers and occupants, the powers that had made this venue a residence of war operations were cutting their losses and running. Over the years, the base, originally built by the Soviets in the 1950s and known to US personnel as Bagram Airfield, became a loud statement of occupation, able to h...

WASHINGTON (AP) — As the last U.S. combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, the question arises: When is the war really over? For Afghans the answer is clear but grim: no time soon. An emboldened Taliban insurgency is making battlefield gains, and prospective peace talks are stalled. Some fear that once foreign forces are gone, Afghanistan will dive deeper into civil war. Though degraded, an Afghan affiliate of the Islamic State extremist network also lurks. For the United States and it...

by   Soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division provide security in Afghanistan in 2018. (Christopher Bouchard/U.S. Army) WASHINGTON — As the last U.S. combat troops prepare to leave Afghanistan, the question arises: When is the war really over? For Afghans the answer is clear but grim: no time soon. An emboldened Taliban insurgency is making battlefield gains, and prospective peace talks are stalled. Some fear that once foreign forces are gone, Afghanistan will dive deeper into civil war. Tho...

  WASHINGTON -- Nearly 20 years after invading Afghanistan to oust the Taliban and hunt down al-Qaida, the U.S. military has vacated its biggest airfield in the country, advancing a final withdrawal that the Pentagon on Friday said will be completed by the end of August. President Joe Biden had instructed the Pentagon to complete the military withdrawal by Sept. 11, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the U.S., but the Pentagon now says it can finish the drawdown a little earli...

US pullout target from Afghanistan now late August SNS Web © Provided by The Statesman US pullout target from Afghanistan now late August Nearly 20 years after invading Afghanistan to oust the Taliban and hunt down al-Qaida, the U.S. military has vacated its biggest airfield in the country, advancing a final withdrawal that the Pentagon says will be completed by the end of August. In fact, the drawdown is already largely completed and officials had said it could be wrapped up...

US Military To Vacate Afghan Base By Late August Earlier, President Joe Biden instructed the Pentagon to complete the military withdrawal by September 11, but now the Pentagon says it can finish the drawdown a little earlier. Associated Press (AP) 03 July 2021, Last Updated at 11:07 am https://apnews.com/article/taliban-afghanistan-f6da97f3bde5b50b6d029185c9eb385d/gallery/6965572ae6e0490aa6b693baa7fbd9a9 Associated Press (AP) 2021-07-03T10:50:47+05:30 US Milit...

US leaves its epicentre of Afghan war American forces hand over Bagram Airfield to Afghan govt Agencies July 03, 2021 KABUL: US troops pulled out of the epicentre of their war in Afghanistan on Friday, leaving behind a piece of the World Trade Center they had buried there 20 years and bringing an effective end to America’s longest war in history. The US handed over the Bagram Airfield to the Afghan National Security and Defence Force in its entirety, top American officials confirmed, as fear...

(Last Updated On: July 3, 2021) US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin has approved a plan to transfer authority from Army General Scott Miller to Marine Corps General Frank McKenzie, Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby said late Friday. Miller is the commander of U.S. Forces-Afghanistan and the Resolute Support Mission. McKenzie is the commander of U.S. Central Command. According to Kirby, this is all part of the safe and orderly retrograde that will have all U.S. troops out of Afg...