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Monday, August 30, 2021

Afghanistan live news: Biden confirms end of 20-year US military presence as Taliban celebrate in Kabul

Biden confirms end of 20-year military presence; US secretary of state says support for Taliban ‘will have to be earned’; Taliban fire guns into the air in Kabul in celebration

CNN’s Clarissa Ward reports that, according to a Taliban source, Islamic State members are “melting” into the Taliban:

Taliban source: ISIS-K militants are pretending to be Taliban, posing a new danger @clarissaward reports pic.twitter.com/QIRZ0h1G2o

For the first time since 2001 there are no American troops in Afghanistan after the United States completed the evacuation of most of its citizens and thousands of at-risk Afghans.

Reuters has compiled this explainer on what happens now:

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3mLgZIp

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