Ashraf Ghani

The United States and The Afghan Taliban are supposedly on the verge of a historic peace agreement, after months of on-off talks.

But why is the U.S. war in Afghanistan and why it has taken so long?

On 11. September 2001 attacks In America That killed almost 3,000 people. Osama Bin Laden, The Head of the Islamist terrorist group al-Qaeda, was quickly identified as The Man responsible.

The Taliban, radical Islamists, which ran Afghanistan and protected Bin Laden refused him. So, a month after 9/11, the U.S. air attacks on Afghanistan .

Like other countries in The War , joined, the Taliban were quickly removed from power. But you don't just disappear - their influence grew, and That they dug there.

Since then, have fought the U.S. and its allies, to collapse to stop The Afghan government, and an end to the deadly attacks by the Taliban.

"We didn't ask for this mission, but we are they said to meet," US President George W. Bush, as he announced The First air strikes against Afghanistan on 7. October 2001. The raids were in response to the 9/11 attacks, which killed 2,977 people in New York , Washington and Pennsylvania.

The Mission , he said, was to disrupt "the use of Afghanistan as a terrorist base of operations and attack the military capability of the Taliban regime".

The First targets were military sites, the hardliners of the Taliban group That ruled the country. Training camps for al-Qaeda, the terrorist group run by 9/11 plotter Osama Bin Laden, were also taken.

But 18 years ago, it is difficult to argue That the US-mission accomplished - the Taliban can play a role in Afghanistan ruled again, if Peace Talks succeed at some point.

The Taliban first of all, the control over the capital, Kabul, in 1996, took over, and dominated most of the country within two years. She is pursuing a radical form of Islam, and due punishments such as public executions to set lines.

Within two months of the US and its international and Afghan allies in their attacks, the Taliban regime, start collapsed and its fighters melted away into Pakistan.

A new US-backed government took over in 2004, but the Taliban still had a lot of support in the areas around the Pakistani border, and made hundreds of millions of dollars annually from the drug trade, mining, and taxes.

As the Taliban are more and more suicide bombings carried out, The International forces working with Afghan troops fought against the danger posed by the revitalization of the group.

In the year 2014, at the end of what was The Bloodiest year in Afghanistan since 2001, the Nato international forces - be careful your combat stay in Afghanistan for an indefinite period of time terminates, leaving it to The Afghan army against the Taliban.

But the Taliban momentum, as it targets the conquered territory, and detonated bombs against government and civilian. In the year 2018, the BBC found, the Taliban was openly active for More Than 70% of Afghanistan .

Afghanistan was in a state of almost constant war for 20 years, even before the US invaded.

In 1979, a year after a coup That invaded the Soviet Army in Afghanistan to support its Communist government. He fought A Resistance Movement known as the Mujahideen - supported by the USA, Pakistan, China and Saudi Arabia , among other countries.

In 1989, the Soviet troops of the people moved but The War will continue. In the chaos That followed, the Taliban (jumped which means "students" in the Pashto language).

they first rose to prominence in The Border region of Northern Pakistan and South west Afghanistan in the year 1994. You promised to fight corruption and to increase the safety and at this time Many Afghans were tired of the violence and infighting of the Mujahideen during the Civil War .

It is thought That the Taliban first appeared in religious schools, primarily Saudi Arabia , has preached funded by Saudi, a hardline form of Islam.

you set your own strict version of Sharia, or Islamic law, and led to brutal punishments. Men were made to grow beards and women had to wear the, covering everything burka.

The Taliban banned television, music and cinema and disapproved of girls ' education.

And because the Taliban gave shelter to militants from the al-Qaida group, it made them a direct target for an attack from US, Afghan and international forces in The Wake of 9/11.

There are Many Reasons for this. But they contain a combination of fierce Taliban resistance, the borders of The Afghan armed forces and the administration, and in other countries attitude to your troops longer in Afghanistan .

at times, the have been in The Past 18 years, the Taliban on the back foot. At the end of 2009, US President Barack Obama has announced a troop "surge" That saw The Number of American Soldiers in Afghanistan , the top 100,000.

The increase in boost helped the Taliban from parts of southern Afghanistan , but it was never intended to last for years.

As a result, the Taliban were able to regroup. If The International troops from fighting, The Afghan forces are left to lead The Charge , were easily overwhelmed. To make matters worse, The Afghan government, which is paralyzed, full of tribal division, often.

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There is also The Role of Afghanistan 's neighboring Pakistan.

There is no question, the Taliban have their roots in Pakistan, and That they were able to regroup during the time of the US invasion. But Pakistan has denied to help or protect you - the United States called for it more against the militants.

a huge increase, even within the last ten years. Some of these drugs Afghanistan is The World 's largest opium producer, and most of the opium Poppies used for Heroin are grown in the Taliban-held areas.

But the Taliban also make money by taxing people who travel through its territory, and businesses, such as telecommunications, electricity, and minerals.

Foreign countries, including Pakistan and Iran, the financing of them, but of private persons from the region refused thought, to have done so.

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It is difficult to say how Many Afghan troops have died - the figures are no longer published. But in January 2019, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said.

Nearly 3,500 members of The International coalition died in the forces since the invasion in 2001, More Than 2,300 of them Americans.

The figures for Afghan civilians are more difficult to quantify. A UN report, died in February 2019, said More Than 32,000 civilians. says were killed 42,000 of the fighters of the opposition.

The Institute says, the conflicts in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan, the US$ 5 cost. 9 trillion since 2001.

The US has initiated the implementation of air strikes against the Taliban, by the third President to monitor The War , Donald Trump . But he is eager to reduce troop numbers before a further election in November 2020.

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Many in Washington and elsewhere fear That a full US troop pull-out would leave a vacuum, the met could be That of militant groups to plot attacks in The West .

to wear The Afghan people, meanwhile, the main burden of the long and bloody Conflict .

Source of news: bbc.com