Contemporary · Central Asia · War
2021
Taliban return to Kabul
August 15, 2021
As the last American troops withdrew, the Taliban swept through Afghanistan's provinces in days and entered Kabul without a fight. Ashraf Ghani fled by helicopter. Desperate Afghans clung to American transport planes lifting off from the airport. Twenty years of war, two trillion dollars, ended in a bitterly familiar tableau.
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Era
Contemporary (2001–2026), one of 196 events from that era on Saeculum.
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