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US drone strike in Kabul under scanner after military analysis on quality of intel
•The rules of engagement allowed the military to conduct a strike if the operators and intelligence analysts had “reasonable certainty” that they had a legitimate ISIS-K target
'Our commitment to them holds no deadline', says Antony Blinken as many Americans, Afghans remain
•Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the US will continue to try to get Americans and Afghans out of the country and will work with Afghanistan's neighbours to secure their departure
America's longest war of 20 years ends as last troops exit Afghanistan
•The US failures were numerous and it only degraded but never defeated the Taliban and ultimately failed to build an Afghan military that could hold off the insurgents
US investigating if civilians killed in Kabul airstrike after reports of child casualties emerge
•The US airstrike came after a suicide bomber from the Islamic State group on Thursday targeted US troops stopping huge crowds of people from entering the airport
'We will hunt you down and make you pay': Biden vows to finish Kabul evacuation, avenge US deaths
•Despite intense pressure to extend the deadline, Biden has repeatedly cited the threat of terrorist attacks against civilians and US service members as a reason to keep to his plan
Joe Biden set to appoint former Iraq commander Lloyd Austin as his defence secretary
•Austin will need a congressional waiver to serve, since he has been out of the military for only four years and US law requires a seven-year waiting period
US to cut troops in Iraq from 5,200 to 3,000 in September, says top general
•Marine General Frank McKenzie said the decision to reduce American troops reflects the Trump administration's confidence in the ability of Iraqi security forces to handle the militant threat in the country
US general says Pentagon has recieved no direction to withdraw troops from Afghanistan
•The Pentagon has not received any order from President Donald Trump to withdraw troops from war-torn Afghanistan, a top US commander said on Thursday.
US CENTCOM commander Joseph Votel asks Pakistan to play constructive role, cease its behaviour undermining regional stability
•US Central Command General Joseph Votel said on Tuesday that militants operating out of Pakistan and Afghanistan continue to threaten Afghan stability as well as stoke tensions between Pakistan and India
Islamic State hold in Syria, Iraq on verge of collapse, but fight not over, says US commander General Joseph Votel
•General Joseph Votel, told a Senate committee on Tuesday that of the 34,000 square miles (88,060 square kilometres) of territory that Islamic State once held, it now controls less than 20 square miles (51.7 square kilometres), but the coalition's hard-won battlefield gains can only be secured by maintaining a vigilant offensive against the violent extremists