In this handout, provided by the US Central Command, US Army Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue steps onto a C-17 cargo plane at Hamid Karzai International Airport. Handout / US Central Command via Getty I’m hiding caption
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In this handout, provided by the US Central Command, US Army Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue steps onto a C-17 cargo plane at Hamid Karzai International Airport.
Handout / US Central Command via Getty I.
Before the last US plane left Afghanistan, ending America’s longest war, a man boarded the C-17 cargo plane at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
US Army Major General Chris Donahue was the last American soldier to leave the country on Monday. He is in command of the 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps.
A handout provided by US Central Command shows Donahue boarding the plane that also carried US Ambassador Ross Wilson to Afghanistan.
Her departure marked the end of a nearly 20-year mission that began shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
In the intervening years, more than 800,000 soldiers served in Afghanistan. The war claimed the lives of 2,461 U.S. soldiers and civilians and injured 20,000. The casualty included the 13 US soldiers killed in an attack outside Kabul airport last week.
Foreign Minister Antony Blinken outlined the future engagement of the USA in Afghanistan and called it a new chapter “in which we will lead with our diplomacy”.
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