• Afghanistan, the last soldier has returned.

    The Italian mission has ended

  • Italy lowers the flag in Afghanistan.

    Minister Guerini: "Do not return as a refuge for terrorists"

  • Bomb before the truce: 11 dead in south-east Afghanistan

  • Afghanistan, the Taliban and the signal to Washington: truck bomb kills students

  • The withdrawal of US and NATO forces from Afghanistan has begun

  • Afghanistan, Italy retreats amid political controversy

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02 July 2021 No ceremony,

after almost 20 years CNN describes the withdrawal of American soldiers from Bagram as "a symbolic victory for the Taliban

, who have waged a relentless battle against the Afghan army, pushing back government forces and invading a growing number of districts ". It was the US broadcaster that spread the news about the withdrawal, citing its own US security sources.



A chapter closes. Bagram was the symbol of the fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, a 

place of entry for tens of thousands of soldiers who entered Afghanistan to take part in the War on Terror

and at the same time the theater of death for almost two thousand US soldiers. 





For years, in fact, the base has been the target of numerous Taliban attacks, including suicide bombings and missile attacks. But it was diplomacy, not violence, that led to the United States leaving the country. It was

for years that the Pentagon was reducing the presence of troops in Afghanistan

No, but the Doha agreement, signed in February 2020 by the Administration Trump and the Taliban in Qatar, '' marked the beginning of the end '' writes the CNN. As of mid-2011, there were nearly 100,000 US troops in Afghanistan and another 35,000 US contractors. Ten years later there were 2,500 soldiers and 18,000 contractors. The

President Joe Biden has promised that the complete withdrawal of US troops from 'Afghanistan will take place by 11 September next

, that is twenty years after the 9/11 attacks.





Italy also left Afghanistan

"With the return of the last Italian soldier, which took place in compliance with the safety of our contingent, the Italian mission in Afghanistan officially ended. I want to remember with gratitude the 723 wounded and with deep emotion the 53 Italian victims who lost their lives in the service of the Republic. ”Thus the Minister of Defense Lorenzo Guerini commented on the arrival at the military airport of Pisa of Brigadier General Beniamino Vergori, Commander of the Contingent, and of the last soldiers who were still deployed in Herat.