By Elizabeth Hearst for AMLi
Nearly twenty years ago US armed forces invaded Afghanistan, promising to rid the country of the much-feared Taliban, an Islamic terrorist organisation.
The Afghan war is estimated to have cost more than 200,000 lives, further savaged Afghanistan’s economy and cost the United States nearly a Trillion dollars.
In February 2020, the President Trump administration and the Taliban signed a peace agreement, which included provisions for the withdrawal of all remaining US troops from the country.
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