September 11 2001
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Dick Cheney, vice-president and giant of Republican politics, dies aged 84
Cheney, who served under presidents from Nixon to George W Bush, will be remembered for controversial role aft…
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Smoke rises above Kabul after US strike that killed al-Qaida’s Ayman al-Zawahiri – video report
A US drone strike in Afghanistan has killed the top al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri, Joe Biden announced on …
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Who was Ayman al-Zawahiri? The al-Qaida leader who helped plot its deadliest attacks
A lifelong jihadist who became Osama bin Laden’s successor, Zawahiri waged a long war of terror against the US…
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Ayman al-Zawahiri: al-Qaida leader killed in US drone strike in Afghanistan, Joe Biden says
President ordered strike on Kabul safe house last month during a high-level meeting, administration saysA US d…
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Biden releases $7bn in frozen Afghan funds to split between 9/11 families and aid
Money would go toward humanitarian efforts for Afghan people and to US victims of terrorism, keeping it out of…
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Lives lost, poverty, an arms race, rights destroyed … the continuing cost of 9/11
The US has now spent $8 trillion over 20 years in its response to the attacks. But the true price has been mor…
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The lesson we failed to learn from 9/11: peace is impossible if we don’t talk to our enemies | Jonathan Powell
We should have engaged with the Taliban 20 years ago, but we thought the winner takes all. It undermined our o…
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Al-Qaida: the terror group that learned the secret of longevity
Twenty years after 9/11, 33 years after it was first conceived, and against all the odds, the terrorist group …
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I watched the bombs fall to unleash the 9/11 wars. Two decades later, they grind on | Jason Burke
Listening to Joe Biden’s words as the US left Afghanistan was to hear echoes of George W Bush from 2001. Is th…
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The Guardian view on Afghanistan: unnecessary suffering | Editorial
A reckless western withdrawal timetable has let a people downEarlier this year, a bipartisan panel appointed b…