This story appears in the November/December 2016 issue of National Geographic History magazine ... a year before the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, Russian archaeologist Viktor Ivanovich ...

President Joe Biden pushed that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was a foreign policy ... thing to do,' the president said. 'And I believe history will reflect that.' He boasted to the crowd ...

"We must never fail again the way we failed in Afghanistan," said Schahina Gambir, a 23- year-old Green Party parliamentarian ...

National security adviser Jake Sullivan said Sunday that President Biden made the right strategic call to withdraw from Afghanistan three years ago and that history reflects well on that decision.