Occupation Is Over, Ending America’s Longest War Twenty years after the U.S. invaded, the last military flight took off from Kabul airport. Samia Ahmadi, right, whose father and fiancé were both killed on Sunday in a U.S. drone strike on a house in Kabul, Afghanistan. A man injured in the bombing at the Kabul airport being treated at the Emergency NGO hospital last week. But on Friday, after the deadly attack on the airport, Mr. Bickford said the effort had become much more complicated. When he was asked about the assurances from the Taliban, Mr. Blinken said that the U.S. government was not under any illusions.

Source: International New York Times August 30, 2021 09:16 UTC