The President of the United States, Joe Biden, stressed that the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan does not mean the end of the American war on terrorism, according to the New York Times.
Sources told the New York Times that the CIA has been quietly expanding a secret base deep in the African desert, where it operates drone reconnaissance to monitor al-Qaeda and ISIS fighters in Libya, as well as extremists in Niger, Chad and Mali.
US forces have engaged in combat, either directly or through proxies, in 12 countries, including Iraq, Kenya, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria, Yemen and Afghanistan.
The United States also has the legal authority to conduct special operations in Cameroon, Libya, Niger, and Tunisia, and thanks to the new strategy, the United States has been able to establish fruitful partnerships with local partners in Syria and Libya. Libya, with the help of US air strikes, uprooted ISIS fighters from their base in the city of Sirte.
According to the newspaper, twenty years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, there are no signs of an end to the war on terrorism, but anti-terror experts confirm that the war on terrorism has been a great success undisputedly. They pointed out that it succeeded in achieving its primary goal of protecting the United States from another attack of the September 11 type.
