Pentagon to Interview Kabul Airport Attack Witnesses Amid Calls for Transparency

The United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom on October 7, 2001, spending nearly 20 years and more than $2.3 trillion removing the Taliban* from power and occupying Afghanistan. On August 15, 2021, two weeks before the total US withdrawal from the country, the Taliban returned to power, and sacked the capital city of Kabul.