Reality Check: Costs of America’s longest war

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The Taliban, which was overthrown by U.S. forces after 9/11, has regrouped. Twenty years on, what are the lessons from America’s longest overseas war? Was the U.S. military intervention worth it? CGTN anchor and former chief U.S. correspondent Wang Guan investigates.

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