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August 30, 2021

On August 30, 2021, the last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war. The year's #1 song was "Levitating" by Dua Lipa. Princess Lilibet of Sussex, Princess Lilibet of Sussex, Princess Lilibet of Sussex would arrive in the same year.

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2021 (MMXXI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2021st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 21st year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2020s decade.

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On August 30, 2021

  1. 2021 The last remaining American troops leave Afghanistan, ending U.S. involvement in the war.

    End of the 2001–21 war; second beginning of Taliban rule

    The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war. In February 2020, the first Trump administration and the Taliban signed the United States–Taliban deal in Doha, Qatar, which stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and in return for the Taliban's counter-terrorism commitments, provided for the withdrawal of all NATO forces from Afghanistan by 1 May 2021. Following the deal, the US dramatically reduced the number of air attacks on the Taliban to the detriment of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), and its fight against the Taliban insurgency.

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