{"id":585983,"date":"2021-07-08T11:20:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585983"},"modified":"2021-07-08T11:20:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-08T15:20:17","slug":"britain-pulls-nearly-all-troops-out-of-afghanistan-ending-decades-long-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/britain-pulls-nearly-all-troops-out-of-afghanistan-ending-decades-long-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain Pulls Nearly All Troops Out Of Afghanistan, Ending Decades-Long War"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbritain-pulls-nearly-all-troops-out-of-afghanistan-ending-decades-long-war%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=585983&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Picture-of-the-United-Kingdoms-Prime-Minister-Boris-Johnson-e1625754715849.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Thursday that most British troops have left Afghanistan in a speech he gave to Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe international military presence in Afghanistan was never intended to be permanent,\u201d Johnson said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/commons\/2021-07-08\/debates\/CBB76087-2079-42F0-A58C-2DFEBED899F1\/Afghanistan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">speech<\/a>. \u201cAll British troops assigned to NATO\u2019s mission in Afghanistan are now returning home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Johnson warned that the Taliban are taking some <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/28\/afghanistan-joe-biden-withdrawal-september-11-taliban-hostilties\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">areas<\/a> of Afghanistan. \u201cIt is hard to see a future without bloodier conflict and wider Taliban control. Already, they are on the brink of gaining control of provincial capitals, and Afghan security forces are at risk of being overwhelmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"In full: Boris Johnson reveals details of Britain&#039;s final military withdrawal from Afghanistan\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FbHJGhwFUl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>But Johnson also remained optimistic that the Taliban wouldn\u2019t threaten the West.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe training camps have been destroyed. What remains of al-Qaeda\u2019s leadership no longer resides in Afghanistan and no terrorist attacks against western targets have been mounted from Afghan soil since 2001,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cWe should never lose sight of those essential facts.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson said there is \u201cno military path to victory\u201d for the terrorist organization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere must be a peaceful and a negotiated settlement for the political crisis in Afghanistan, and the U.K. will continue to work to ensure that that takes place,\u201d Johnson said. \u201cI believe that can happen \u2014 I do not believe that the Taliban are guaranteed the kind of victory that we sometimes read about.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/01\/03\/british-army-recruiting-posters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: British Army Drops Its Money On Some Pretty Wild Millennial-Focused Ads)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor obvious reasons, I will not disclose the timetable of our departure, though I can tell the house [Parliament] that most of our personnel have already left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>British forces were first sent to Afghanistan in 2001 after the 9\/11 attacks, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/britain-withdraw-nearly-all-its-troops-afghanistan-times-2021-04-13\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a>. 457 British soldiers were killed while fighting in the war, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hope no one will leap to the false conclusion that the withdrawal of our forces somehow means the end of Britain\u2019s commitment to Afghanistan, we are not about to turn away, nor are we under any illusions about the perils of today\u2019s situation and what might lie ahead,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>Tony Blair, the former prime minister for the U.K., <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/10\/tony-blair-afghanistan-taliban\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in May he\u2019s concerned about the consequences of U.S. troops leaving Afghanistan after Democratic President Joe Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/14\/joe-biden-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal-iraq-taliban-september-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">promise<\/a> in April to withdraw all American troops by Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. 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