Yearender: Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2021
(211230) -- BEIJING, Dec. 30, 2021 (Xinhua) -- People gather at the Kabul airport during evacuation in Kabul, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2021, after the Taliban's takeover of Kabul on Aug. 15. Xinhua's top 10 world news events in 2021 U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan a big fiasco, leaving disasters behind On Aug. 30, U.S. troops were completely pulled out of Afghanistan. The 20-year war Washington unilaterally launched ended in a big fiasco. The hasty withdrawal, regardless of U.S. allies, led to turmoil on Afghan soil. Meanwhile, brutal airstrikes brought many civilians, including children, to death. America once again demonstrated its selfish and high-handed nature. The longest war in U.S. history claimed more than 30,000 lives of Afghan civilians, and turned about 11 million people into refugees. Long-term wars and conflicts took a heavy toll on people's livelihood, as three-quart.....
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