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US President Joe Biden
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It was the US's longest combat mission to date: US President Joe Biden has now announced that all troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan by September 11th.
The Washington Post and the Reuters news agency unanimously report this, citing internal sources.
Accordingly, Biden wants to make his plans public on Wednesday.
Biden's predecessor Donald Trump originally agreed with the militant Islamist Taliban to withdraw on May 1st.
The troops will now remain in the country beyond the negotiated date.
The terrorist militia threatened to attack the troops if they did not leave the country as agreed.
Against the background of the Russian troop deployment on the border with Ukraine, Biden also proposed a summit meeting with Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin.
Biden proposed the proposal for a summit in a third country in the coming months in a phone call with Putin on Tuesday, the White House said.
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