Joe Biden calls time on America’s longest-ever war
America leaves behind a weak state and struggling army
THE FIRST American forces to enter Afghanistan in 2001 arrived on September 26th, when a CIA team dropped into the Panjshir Valley in the north. At the peak of the war a decade later, America had more than 100,000 troops battling the Taliban.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “The end of forever”
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