Twenty-three years ago, on October 7, 2001, the United States launched its airstrikes on Afghan soil. The Islamic Emirate, in recognition of this day, stated that the US attack on Afghanistan took the lives of thousands of people and that, in the end, the country and its allies were defeated and driven out of Afghanistan.
The Islamic Emirate has marked October 7 as a dark day in the country’s history.
Hamdullah Fitrat, Deputy Spokesperson of the Islamic Emirate, told TOLOnews: “We consider this day a dark day in Afghanistan’s history. It was a cruel attack on Afghanistan, resulting in the martyrdom, injury, imprisonment, and displacement of thousands of innocent Afghans. The occupiers imposed their puppets on Afghanistan for twenty years, and after two decades, the Americans realized that attacking Afghanistan was a big mistake.”
The US attack, which began on October 7, led to a twenty-year military presence of the US and its allies in Afghanistan.
“What was needed, they did not do. Afghans do not accept occupation, and besides this, they paid no attention to Afghan cultural and religious values. They raided the people, oppressed them, bombed funerals, and killed innocent people,” said Moeen Gul Samkanai, a political analyst.
“They wanted to occupy Central Asia and control the entire Asian continent, which they couldn’t achieve in twenty years. Despite their own losses and financial damages, they imprisoned the people of Afghanistan, and their private prisons were filled with our Afghans, whether in Bagram or Guantanamo,” said Kamran Aman, a military analyst.
Although the US had a twenty-year military presence in Afghanistan, in the end, on August 15, 2021, the Islamic Emirate gained control of the country, and the last US soldier left Afghanistan on August 31 of the same year, marking the end of America’s longest war in Afghanistan.
