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Signed by US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and Taliban deputy leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar after 18 years of war. The US promised to withdraw its forces within 14 months; the Taliban promised that Afghan soil would not be used against the US and its allies, and to hold talks with other Afghans. The Afghan government was not a party. The Taliban took Kabul on 15 August 2021, and the last US troops left on 30 August.
United States and the Afghan Taliban
The US agreed to withdraw all troops from Afghanistan; the withdrawal ended in August 2021 as the Taliban took Kabul. Pakistan helped bring the Taliban to the talks.