“United States troops and their NATO allies intend to be out of Afghanistan by early to mid-July, well ahead of President Biden’s Sept. 11 withdrawal deadline, military officials said, in what has turned into an accelerated ending to America’s longest war…
“‘Withdrawing forces is actually a really delicate kind of operation that has risks associated with it,’ said Michèle A. Flournoy, a former under secretary for defense under President Barack Obama. ‘There’s a lot they have to work through before the last person steps on the plane — especially when you have allies on the ground who are going to inherit what we are leaving behind…'”
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