Five years after the chaotic withdrawal of U.S. and Western forces from Afghanistan, the Taliban remain in power, marking the end of a two-decade conflict that cost hundreds of thousands of lives and trillions of dollars. The U.S. withdrawal in August 2021 has since become a major turning point in global debates over Western military intervention, nation-building and the limits of foreign policy. CGTN’s Diane Hodges looks back at the war.

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