For almost 20 years of presence in Afghanistan, the United States lost more than two thousand people. This was stated by the representative of the Pentagon, the head of the Central Command of the US Armed Forces (USCENTCOM) General Kenneth McCenzie, the broadcast of the speech led C-SPAN channel.
General stressed that it was not a “mild mission.” According to him, 2461 US military and civil and civilians died in Afghanistan. More than 20 thousand US citizens were injured, he added.
Earlier, Mackenzie said that the United States completed the operation on the evacuation of people from Afghanistan. In the American military, the United States summarized that the US military left the Islamic Republic. “A twenty-year-old mission is completed with the conclusion of the troops,” the warlord said. He added that the last evacuation flight was abandoned by the Ambulance in Afghanistan Ross Wilson.
August 15 militants of the Taliban movement (forbidden in Russia) entered Kabul and declared full control over the territory of Afghanistan. They also announced that soon the creation of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan was proclaimed.