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    Opinion: U.S. Faces Hard Choices To Fight Terrorism After Afghanistan Withdrawal

    Al-Qaida is degraded but not defeated. Analyst Colin Clarke assesses where the U.S. may be mapping out its future counterterrorism presence after withdrawing from Afghanistan.
    by Colin P. Clarke Apr 15, 2021 3 minutes
    U.S. Marines conduct an operation to clear a village of Taliban fighters on July 5, 2009, in Mian Poshteh, Afghanistan. The U.S. and NATO forces plan to withdraw their remaining troops from Afghanistan by September.

    Colin P. Clarke is the director of policy and research at The Soufan Group and a senior research fellow at The Soufan Center. He is the author of After the Caliphate: The Islamic State and the Future Terrorist Diaspora.

    President Biden's decision to withdrawall troops from Afghanistan no later than Sept. 11 sets in motion an end to the longest war in America's history. In announcing the withdrawal on Wednesday, Biden , "Bin Laden is dead and al-Qaida is degraded in Iraq and Afghanistan." The president is

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