Afghanistan: "The Americans have been trying to disengage from the country for almost twenty years"
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US soldiers on patrol walk past a wrecked car after an explosion in Arghandab district, Kandahar province, Afghanistan, February 2011. ASSOCIATED PRESS - Allauddin Khan
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Almost 20 years after the September 11 attacks, the United States will reduce the number of its troops in Afghanistan and Iraq in mid-January 2021, thus keeping a promise made by Donald Trump despite the fears of its allies of seeing extremist groups strengthen.
The leader of the Republican majority in the Senate, Mitch McConnell, had estimated on Monday that the United States would "abandon" its allies in the event of a premature withdrawal.
What risks does the American military withdrawal pose?
The analysis by Élie Tenenbaum, researcher at the Center for Security Studies at Ifri and coordinator of the Defense Research Laboratory (LRD).
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Élie Tenenbaum is the author of
Partisans et centurions, a history of irregular warfare in the 20th century
, published by Perrin.
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