President Biden has announced that the United States will fully withdraw its troops from Afghanistan by Sept. 11, which is, of course, the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack that rocked the United States in 2001, leaving hundreds dead and a nation in mourning.
Though the Trump administration reached a deal with the Taliban to complete a full withdrawal by May 1, President Biden has said that it will be ‘hard to meet’ the deadline, but that the troop drawdown will at least begin by May 1.
A Senior Administration official with the Biden Administration said that this decision came after a three-month Afghanistan policy review. The official stated that the national security threat from Afghanistan is at a ‘level that we can address it without a persistent military footprint in the country and without being at war with the Taliban.’