From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is the Daily.

Today, over the past few weeks, United States military forces in Afghanistan

have quietly abandoned their military bases across the country, signaling the end of America's

20-year war there. My colleague, Thomas Gibbons-Nef, has been reporting on what it

actually looks like as the US leaves. It's Thursday, July 8th.

Is that a helicopter or a radio? Yeah.

That's pretty loud. Yeah. Do you hear that all throughout the day and night?

Yeah, well the Americans are supposed to not fly from like nine to night till eight in the morning,

but they've thrown that out the window with the withdrawal. So yeah, it's pretty much, I sleep

through it, but yeah, we're right underneath the flight path to the embassy.

Right. I guess it's like weight noise at this point. Yeah.

Well, Tim, what exactly is the state of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, which you just hinted at

at this point? Right. So the state of the withdrawal at this moment is that it's almost complete,

right? But looking at this moment and how we got here, I mean, the question is, what does the

end of a nearly 20-year-old war look like? I'm now the fourth United States President

to preside over American true presence in Afghanistan, two Republicans, two Democrats.

I will not pass this responsibility onto a fifth.

You know, in mid-April, President Biden announced that all American forces or the war

effort would end by September 11th. President Biden ordered US troops to begin their withdrawal

from Afghanistan starting today. After 20 years, US and NATO are aiming to withdraw

thousands of troops by the end of the summer. Ending America's longest war.

Now, what that's looked like since then has kind of been this moving target.

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