One year after President Biden announced the end of America's war in Afghanistan, the administration has yet to release its after-action reports on the end of the U.S. military presence in the country and its chaotic non-combatant evacuation.
of America's war in Afghanistan, the administration has yet to release its after-action reports on the end of the U.S. military presence in the country and its chaotic non-combatant evacuation after President Ashraf Ghani's government collapsed and the country fell to the Taliban.
The State Department's report, which was led by retired career ambassador Dan Smith, is"classified so that it could draw from every appropriate original source material," Spokesperson Ned Price said in an. Price also said"It is our hope and expectation that we will be able to release publicly elements of that report."
A U.S. defense official told CBS News on Wednesday that the Defense Department's"classified review," which is a separate document from the State Department's review, is complete and has been turned into the Secretary of Defense, who is reviewing it. But those intra-Afghan discussions were bogged down and the Ghani government was excluded from the U.S.-Taliban talks, there were clashes between the U.S. and Afghan governments over a promise to release Taliban prisoners, and Taliban fighters were continuing to attack and kill members of Afghan government forces. As diplomacy stalled, Taliban fighters advanced on the battlefield. Unwilling to extend the presence of U.S.