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Saturday, August 30, 2025

On this date in history : August 30, 2021 (U.S. troops withdrawn at Kabul Airport)

 The United States' longest war

from Oct. 2001 til August 2021

ended with the withdrawal of troops

in C-17 cargo planes . . . The Taliban

then fired their guns into the air,

ending a 20-year insurgency.

AP News "On This Date" online almanac

Canada had withdrawn its troops from

Afghanistan on August 26, 2021.

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