new delhi for the first time since 2001 there are no american troops in afghanistan after the united states completed the evacuation of most of its citizens and thousands of atrisk afghans more than 114000 people have been airlifted from kabul airport in the past two weeks as part of the us effort but the end of the us military involvement in afghanistan raises a new set of questions for biden and his administrationread alsous troops pull out of afghanistan ending 20year warthe united states has pulled all its troops out of afghanistan ending its longest war to cries of shame at home and celebratory gunfire from its victorious taliban enemies in kabulexplainer what happens after us evacuation force leaves afghanistanpresident joe biden on tuesday stuck by his plan to remove the nearly 6000 us troops from afghanistan by the end of august contingent on whether the taliban cooperates to allow the evacuation of more americans and their afghan alliesafghanistan crisis live updateshere are the major developmentslast troops exit afghanistan ending americas longest warthe united states completed its withdrawal from afghanistan late monday ending americas longest war and closing a chapter in military history likely to be remembered for colossal failures unfulfilled promises and a frantic final exit that cost the lives of more than 180 afghans and 13 us service members some barely older than the wartaliban celebrates us troops exit with gunfirecelebratory gunfire echoed across kabul as taliban fighters took control of the airport before dawn on tuesday following the withdrawal of the last us troops ending 20 years of war that left the islamic militia stronger than it was in 2001shaky video footage distributed by the taliban showed fighters entering the airport after the last us troops took off a minute before midnight marking the end of a hasty and humiliating exit for washington and its nato alliesthe last us soldier has left kabul airport and our country gained complete independence taliban spokesman qari yusuf said according to al jazeera tvwhat happens to americans and atrisk afghans left behindthe united states has evacuated more than 5500 us citizens since evacuation flights began on august 14 a small number of american citizens have chosen to continue to stay in afghanistan many of them so they can be with family memberstens of thousands of atrisk afghans such as interpreters who worked with the us military journalists and womens rights advocates have also been left behindthe taliban have pledged to allow all foreign nationals and afghan citizens with travel authorization from another country to leave afghanistan according to a joint statement issued by britain the united states and other countries on sundaywhat happens to kabul airport after us forces leavethe taliban are in talks with governments like qatar and turkey to seek assistance to continue civilian flight operations from there the only way for many people to leave afghanistanturkish foreign minister mevlut cavusoglu said on sunday that repairs need to be made at kabul airport before it can be reopened