America to End Its 'Longest War' Declares Donald Trump

The United States and the Taliban have signed an agreement recently in a move to end America's longest war and bring back home the US troops who are fighting in Afghanistan.

Hailing the success of the deal that has been signed in Doha recently, US President Donald Trump said, "We are working to finally end America’s longest war and bring our troops back home." The President also reaffirmed his commitment to end the longest US war, as soon as possible after signing a peace deal with the Taliban.

According to the official statement, Trump “is following through on his promise and taking a decisive step to achieve a negotiated peace in Afghanistan.”

The historic agreement between the US and the Taliban negotiators was signed in Qatar last Saturday, thereby ending the 19 years of war in Afghanistan, enabling America to withdraw its troops from the war torn country.

The top US negotiator, Zalmay Khalilzad signed the pact in the presence of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, which could lead to a permanent peace treaty between the Afghanistan government and the Taliban militants.

According to the deal, the US will withdraw its troop from Afghanistan as the Taliban will sit down for peace negotiations with other Afghans, severing its ties with terror groups like Al-Qaida, which is working under the shadow of Taliban since the September 11 attacks, which prompted the US invasion in Afghanistan and over 18 years of war. 

The text of the agreement was released on Saturday, although there are many steps in the deal which are conditioned on the actions from both sides, but the US has started withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan.

Though the negotiating officials have said that the weeklong deal to reduce violence will continue, the US has already started withdrawing its troops reducing the number from 13,000 troops in Afghanistan to 8,600 and has assured closing five military bases within 135 days. 

US officials, which includes General Scott Miller, Commander of US forces and the NATO forces in Afghanistan, have said that number is still sufficient to carry out their mission in Afghanistan.

The prisoners will be immediately released, as the US forces have committed to facilitate the release of total 5,000 Taliban fighters who are being held by the government and nearly 1,000 people to be released by militant groups by March 10. 

The remaining prisoners are to be released by another three months as the Taliban fighters committing to abide by the new agreement.