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Biden on Afghanistan: 'Time to end America's longest war'

by Ellen KnickmeyerLolita C. Baldor
| April 14, 2021 7:27 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden says the Sept. 11 attacks “cannot explain” why U.S. forces should remain in Afghanistan 20 years later and that “it is time for American troops to come home” from the country's longest war.

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