US President Barack Obama officially announced the end of the combat mission in Afghanistan, which lasted more than 13 years and was a key part of the “war on terror”. The situation in Afghanistan is still very difficult.
– We continuously at war for over 13 years. Next week we will end our combat mission in Afghanistan – said Obama men Marine Corps base in Kanehoe Bay, Hawaii, where he spends the Christmas period -noworoczny.
President expressed confidence that thanks to the “exceptional service men and women, American forces ” Afghans “have a chance to rebuild their country.” – We are safer. Afghanistan is no longer a source of terrorist attacks – he added.
Ongoing 13 years military operation in Afghanistan was a reaction to the West to the al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 11 September 2001.
Obama admitted, however, that before the United States is still “difficult missions in different parts of the world, including in Iraq,” where America is involved in the fight against Islamic jihadists of you.
The intervention of US forces in Afghanistan, supported later by contingents from NATO allies (including Polish), started in October 2001., shortly after the attacks of September 11 this year at the World Trade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington. The fighting killed approx. 2,200 US soldiers. Experts estimate that the cost of the operation in Afghanistan amounted to approx. One trillion dollars, not counting approx. $ 100 billion allocated to the reconstruction of the country.
Omar Sobhani, Reuters
US Marines leave the flag during the ceremony of transfer of authority of the local database
At its peak in Afghanistan, there were approx. 140 thousand. soldiers. By the end of this year. is their only 13,500 remain. They train the Afghan army and support it in combat operations.
Obama: End of combat mission in Afghanistan – Newsweek Poland
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