President Joe Biden has set a new deadline to pull American troops out of Afghanistan for Sept. 11, 2021. According to reports, that’s the date the US will order all its service members to leave Afghanistan. It’s an important development in the push to end this nearly 20-year war. The World’s Shirin Jaafari has the latest.
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