You may be old enough to remember August 2021, when the Taliban officially took control of Afghanistan. If you need a refresher, in April of that year, President Joe Biden announced that all American troops would withdraw from Afghanistan by September 11, 2021.
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From May through July 2021, U.S. and NATO troops began to withdraw. The Taliban launched an aggressive military operation to capture provincial capitals and large swaths of territory.
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From August 6 through 14 of that year, the Taliban seized major cities, including Herat, Kandahar, and Mazar-i-Sharif, leaving only Kabul under government control.
On August 15, 2021 the Taliban entered Kabul, the capital, with virtually no resistance. President Ashraf Ghani fled the country. The Islamic Republic of Afghanistan collapsed, and the Taliban
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