President Joe Biden officially announced the drawdown of all 2,500 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, beginning May 1 and concluding by Sept. 11,2021."After consulting closely with our allies and partners, with our military leaders and intelligence personnel, with our diplomats and our development experts, with the Congress and the vice president, as well as with [Afghan President Ashraf Ghani] and many others around the world, I concluded that it's time to end America's longest war. It's time for American troops to come home," the president said.Over the past 20 years, "the [terrorist] threat has become more dispersed, metastasizing around the globe: al-Shabab in Somalia, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, ISIS attempting to create acaliphate in Syria and Iraq and establishing affiliates in multiple countries in Africa and Asia," Biden said.
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