Taliban vows future Afghanistan won’t be terrorists’ hotbed | World News, The Indian Express

Taliban vows future Afghanistan won’t be terrorists’ hotbed | World News, The Indian Express

By AP |Washington |Published: July 27, 2019 12:18:27 pm

Taliban vows future Afghanistan won’t be terrorists’ hotbed

The conflict in Afghanistan has cost more than 2,300 American lives and hundreds of billions in taxpayer dollars. The Taliban control roughly half the country, although not the cities. About 14,000 US troops plus other NATO-led forces are still there.

Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban group’s top political leader, third from left, arrives with other members of the Taliban delegation for talks in Moscow, Russia. (AP Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko)

America’s longest war has come full circle. The United States began bombing Afghanistan after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, to root out al-Qaida fighters harbored by the Taliban.