US set to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by Sept 11

President Joe Biden plans to withdraw the remaining 2,500 US troops from Afghanistan by Sept 11, 2021, 20 years to the day after the al-Qaeda attacks that triggered America's longest war, US officials said on Tuesday.

The disclosure of the plan came on the same day that the US intelligence community released a gloomy outlook for Afghanistan, forecasting "low" chances of a peace deal this year and warning that its government would struggle to hold the Taliban insurgency at bay if the US-led coalition withdraws support...