What we know about the US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

President Joe Biden is set to officially announce a September 11 deadline for withdrawal of US troops on Wednesday.

United States President Joe Biden is set to officially announce plans to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan by September 11, ending the longest war in US history. The date will mark twenty years since the September 11 attacks on the US, the event that precipitated the US-led invasion of Afghanistan and the following war, which toppled the Taliban’s five-year rule. The timeline adds months to the May 1 deadline reached in a deal between the administration of President Donald Trump and the Taliban, who still control large swaths of the country amid ongoing fighting with Afghan government forces. The agreement assured that Afghan soil would not be used to undermine the security of the US and its allies in exchange for the troop pullout, while leaving the domestic future of the country – and peace – to be largely negotiated by the Taliban and the Afghan government.