Washington: US President Joe Biden announced on Thursday that the US military mission in Afghanistan will end on August 31^st. Speaking at the White House Biden said US military has achieved its goals in the country, killing Osama bin Laden, degrading Al-Qaeda and preventing more attacks on the United States. Nearly 20 years after it invaded in the wake of the 9/11 attacks in US.

We are ending America’s longest war, Biden said. I will not send another generation of Americans to war in Afghanistan, the status quo is not an option of staying in the country, he said. Afghan people alone should determine their future; the US did not go to Afghanistan to nation-build, said Biden.

The Afghan government has to come together; they clearly have the capacity to sustain the government in place, said Biden. The question is will they generate the kind of cohesion to do it? He expressed faith in Afghan forces, which have been trained for years by and received equipment from the United States, against the resurgent Taliban. But, he admitted, the likelihood there is going to be one unified government in Afghanistan controlling the whole country is highly unlikely.