After nearly 20 years of deployment, with the second largest contingent of troops after the United States, Germany has evacuated its forces from Afghanistan, calling the withdrawal “the end of a historic chapter”, with the coalition of the willing no longer willing and pulling out its forces one by one.

Iran’s foreign minister says Tehran is ready to play an effective role in restoring stability to Afghanistan.

The pledge by Biden to fully withdraw from Afghanistan by September the 11th is seen as the end of one struggle and the beginning of another by the people of Afghanistan, some of whom fear the dominance of extremism promoted by the Taliban.

A good deal of the earnings accrued from US wars goes straight into election campaigns, which in other countries would be considered bribery, but in the United States is relabeled as campaign donations.

Australia and the United Kingdom have both investigated their elite fighting force, the Special Air Service (SAS) for war crimes in Afghanistan.

President Biden has said his administration would not commit to a full withdrawal by May.

The International Criminal Court opens a hearing to overturn a decision scrapping a proposed probe into alleged US war crimes in Afghanistan.