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Final UK evacuation flight leaves Kabul; troops head home

by Jill Lawless
| August 30, 2021 12:09 AM

LONDON (AP) — British troops left Kabul on Saturday, ending the U.K.'s evacuation operation and its 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan.

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