[HIGHLIGHTS] The American war on Afghanistan lasted 20 years and cost Washington two trillion dollars

The American war on Afghanistan lasted 20 years and cost Washington two trillion dollars. On October 7, 2001, the United States of America officially began its military operations in Afghanistan.

On May 27, 2014, Barack Obama announced the plan to withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan, with 9,800 soldiers remaining. On August 21, 2017, then US President Donald Trump announced a strategy for the open deployment of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, which could lead the Taliban to hold peace negotiations with Kabul.