US President Joe Biden has safeguarded his choice to pull out US troops from Afghanistan - a move which prompted Taliban aggressors getting back to control.
Remaining longer was impossible, Mr Biden said in a location to the country, a day after the finish of a 20-year US presence in Afghanistan.
He applauded troops for getting sorted out an airdrop of in excess of 120,000 individuals wishing to escape the Taliban system.
The Islamist assailants have been celebrating what they call a triumph.
US-drove troops went into Afghanistan in 2001, expelling the Taliban in the wake of the overwhelming 9/11 assaults, accused on al-Qaeda - an assailant jihadist bunch then, at that point situated in the Asian country.
Mr Biden has been generally censured - at home and by his partners - over the sudden way of the US withdrawal, which prompted the unforeseen breakdown of the Afghan security drives US troops had prepared and financed for quite a long time.
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Taliban assailants had the option to recover control of the entire country inside 11 days - at long last entering the capital, Kabul, on 15 August.
President Biden conveyed almost 6,000 soldiers to hold onto control of the air terminal to co-ordinate the clearing of US and united outside nationals and nearby Afghans who had been working for them.
A large number of individuals met on Kabul global air terminal in the expectation of having the option to load up one of the clearing flights.
In Tuesday's location, Mr Biden applauded troops for the mass departure and vowed to proceed with endeavors to draw out those Americans who were as yet in Afghanistan and needed to return - around 200 individuals out and out.
However, the US chief unequivocally shielded his transition to pull out.
"I was not going to expand this eternity war, and I was not broadening an eternity leave," Mr Biden said, adding: "The conflict in Afghanistan is presently finished."
He said the US didn't require troops on the ground to shield itself.