Joyce Hicks 
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America’s war in Afghanistan is over, 20 years after the first Nato troops landed in the country for a deployment that cost the lives of several thousand soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Afghan civilians. The Taliban, an ultraconservative local religious faction, has retaken control of the country after a bitter fight with Afghan government troops. They were knocked from power in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Centre and the Pentagon in Washington. Accusing the Taliban of harbouring al Qaeda terrorists, the US invoked Article 5 of the Nato Charter setting the stage to lead its allies to invade Afghanistan on October 7 of the same year. Nearly two decades later, US forces have left Afghanistan, after a resurgent Taliban seized key cities from the Afghan government before retaking control of the country. The Post looks back at nearly two decades of conflict and the continuing impact of America’s longest war.
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