Updated: Sept. 1, 2021 at 2:47 PM

Scenes from the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan (32 images)

After 20 years, the U.S. military has withdrawn forces from Afghanistan. The last two weeks of the mission in August 2021 were marked by chaos and violence as tens of thousands of Americans and Afghan allies were evacuated as the Taliban regained control of the country.

Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III (L) and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Army Gen. Mark A. Milley deliver remarks about the end of the 20-year military mission in Afghanistan at the Pentagon, in Arlington, Va., on September 1. Photo by Ken Cedeno/UPI

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Relatives of a family killed in a U.S. drone strike and other civilians gather next to a damaged vehicle in Kabul on August 30. The strike was aimed at a suspected car bomb. Photo by Bashir Darwish/UPI

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Maj. Gen. Chris Donahue, commander of the U.S. Army 82nd Airborne Division, XVIII Airborne Corps, boards a C-17 cargo plane at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on August 30. He is the final American service member to depart Afghanistan. Photo by Jack Holt/U.S. Central Command

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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden pay their respects during the dignified transfer of the remains of Navy Hospitalman Maxton W. Soviak of Berlin Heights, Ohio, on August 29, at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware. Soviak was killed, along with 12 other American service members, in a suicide bombing outside the Kabul airport on August 26. Photo by Jason Minto/U.S. Air Force

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