Twenty years of US-led international military presence in Afghanistan ended on 30 August 2021, with the withdrawal of the last foreign forces. Since 2001, significant numbers of major arms had been delivered to bolster the Afghan military and security forces, in the expectation that they would eventually be able to maintain security and suppress the Taliban insurgency without international support. It ended in a dramatic failure.
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| Afghan National Army (ANA) students remove the turret on a US-supplied ASV-150/M-1117 armored vehicle as part of maintenance training, 2013. (Picture source: Wikimedia Commons/SGT Kent Redmond) |
