Why did the US invade Afghanistan?

When the World Trade Center in New York was attacked on September 11, 2001, the United States blamed Osama bin Laden, demanded his extradition from the Taliban, and invaded Afghanistan after the Taliban refused.On December 12, two months after the invasion of Afghanistan on October 7, 2001, US President George W. Bush announced the overthrow of the Taliban government. After the fall of the Taliban government, Hamid Karzai became President of Afghanistan, but the fighting did not end The war lasted for days, weeks, then months and then years, but the American people became tired of this war because no results were found. On January 20, 2009, Barack Obama was elected president on the slogan of change. Obama pledges to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan and Iraq. Afghanistan’s third presidential election in 2014 saw Ashraf Ghani and Abdullah sign a power-sharing deal and echoed the peace deal with the Taliban when Donald Trump became US president. The peace agreement between the United States and the Taliban was signed in Doha on February 29, 2012. On January 20, 2021, Joe Biden assumed the presidency and formally announced his withdrawal from Afghanistan on April 5, and the withdrawal was completed on August 31.


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