Era ends, uncertainty looms as U.S. forces quit main Afghanistan base

Afghan soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint outside the U.S Bagram airbase, on the day the last of American troops vacated it in Parwan province, Afghanistan July 2, 2021.[Reuters]

American troops pulled out of their main military base in Afghanistan on Friday, leaving behind a piece of the World Trade Center they buried 20 years ago in a country that could descend into civil war without them.