Washington Post published this video item, entitled “Blinken on U.S. troop withdrawal: ‘The Afghanistan of 2021 is not the Afghanistan of 2001′” – below is their description.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a surprise visit to Afghanistan on April 15 that there’s “no military solution” to the conflict that remains there. Blinken made the trip to Afghanistan after President Biden’s decision to withdraw all U.S. troops from the country and end America’s longest war on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. Read more: https://wapo.st/3sjnjpO. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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9/11 is the abbreviated moniker for the civilian airliner attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, USA, on 11th September 2001. The Pentagon was also targeted and a fourth airliner crashed when passengers overpowered hijackers. Around 3000 people died as a result of the airliner hijackings which took place on 9/11.
Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central and South Asia. Afghanistan is bordered by Pakistan to the east and south; Iran to the west; Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north; and China to the northeast.
Occupying 652,000 square kilometers (252,000 sq mi), it is a mountainous country with plains in the north and southwest. Kabul is the capital and largest city. The population is around 32 million, composed mostly of ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Hazaras, and Uzbeks.
