I sommeren 2021 påbegyndte Taliban en stor offensiv i Afghanistan under tilbagetrækningen af USA's styrker fra landet. Dette ledte til, at Taliban den 23. juli 2021 havde overtaget kontrollen med over halvdelen af Afghanistans 421 distrikter,<ref name="Taliban Consolidation and Foothold">{{cite news |last1=Stewart |first1=Idrees |title=Taliban Consolidation and Foothold |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/half-all-afghan-district-centers-under-taliban-control-us-general-2021-07-21/ |access-date=26. juli 2021 |agency=Reuters |publisher=Reuters, Asia Pacific |date=21. juli 2021 |ref=Milley said more than 200 of the 419 district centers were under Taliban control. Last month, he had said the Taliban controlled 81 district centers in Afghanistan.}}</ref>
<ref>{{cite news |last1=Roggio |first1=Bill |title=Taliban squeezes Afghan government by seizing key border towns |url=https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2021/07/taliban-squeezes-afghan-government-by-seizing-key-border-towns.php |access-date=11. juli 2021 |publisher=FDD's Long War Journal |date=9. juli 2021}}</ref> og allerede den 15. august 2021 faldt Kabul til Taliban.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/15/world/asia/afghanistan-talibal-jalalabad-falls.html Kabul falls to the Taliban as the Afghan government collapses and the president flees]. [[New York Times]], 15. august 2021. Hentet 24. august 2021.</ref>
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