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United States launched apocalyptic war against Taliban in response to 9/11 attack, which killed approximately 3,000 people. Around 43 countries joined US in the war and deployed their thousands of troops in Afghanistan. Though, the 18-year-long war dethroned Taliban but it wreaked havoc in the country as more than 1,00,000 civilians were killed only in the last decade. While the US and UK lost 2,441 and 445 soldiers respectively. US-led coalition forces failed to vanquish Taliban, which controls many districts of Afghanistan. Now, the US government was compelled to sign a peace agreement with Taliban. As per the deal, Taliban will not attack foreign troops and will not allow foreign insurgent groups to use Afghanistan as a launch pad to conduct strikes. The US-led forces will make complete withdrawal within 14 months.

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Afghanistan: Pictures from the longest war in American history

Captain Melvin Cabebe with the US Army's 1-320 Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne Division stands near a burning M-ATV armored vehicle after it struck an improvised explosive device (IED) near Combat Outpost Nolen in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar on July 23, 2010. (Reuters)

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Members of the US Navy carry a comrade wounded by an explosion to a medevac helicopter in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan on October 2, 2010. (Reuters)

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US Marine Lance Corporal Chris Sanderson, 24, from Flemington, New Jersey shouts as he tries to protect an Afghan man and his child after Taliban fighters opened fire in the town of Marjah, in Nad Ali district, Helmand province, on February 13, 2010. (Reuters)

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Sgt. William Olas Bee, a US Marine from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, has a close call after Taliban fighters opened fire near Garmsir in Helmand Province of Afghanistan, May 18, 2008. (Reuters)

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A US soldier from the 3rd Cavalry Regiment pays his respects during a memorial for Specialist Wyatt Martin and Sergeant First Class Ramon Morris at Bagram Air Field in the Parwan province of Afghanistan on December 23, 2014. (Reuters)

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A Stryker armoured vehicle from the U.S. Army's MGS Platoon, Alpha Company, 4-23 Infantry Battalion, 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team fires a 120mm mortar during a night patrol in Kandahar on April 27, 2010. (Reuters)

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US marines fire during a Taliban ambush as they carry out an operation to clear an area in Helmand province on October 9, 2009. (Reuters)

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Ryan Lemm, 4, salutes as he is carried by New York Police Department officer John McCrossen as he watches the casket of his father, NYPD officer Joseph Lemm, who was killed on duty in Afghanistan, following funeral services in the Manhattan borough of New York on December 30, 2015. (Reuters)

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A French sniper looks through his rifle's scope while keeping watch over Qarabagh district, about 40 km (25 miles) north of Kabul on November 20, 2007. (Reuters)

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