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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Robert Tait

US House clashes over Harris’s role in 2021 Afghanistan troop withdrawal

Soldiers stand guard behind barbed wire, with a group of people standing on the other side
US soldiers stand guard behind barbed wire as Afghans sit on a roadside near the military part of the airport in Kabul on 20 August 2021. Photograph: Wakil Kohsar/AFP/Getty Images

Partisan divisions over the chaotic 2021 pullout of western forces from Afghanistan have burst into the open ahead of Tuesday’s presidential debate in Philadelphia after a Republican-led congressional report attempted to implicate Kamala Harris in the episode.

A 250-page report from the House of Representatives’ foreign affairs committee castigated the Biden administration for failing to anticipate the Taliban’s rapid takeover and neglecting to prepare for the orderly departure of non-combatant personnel.

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