Final UK evacuation flight leaves Kabul, troops head home

British troops have left Kabul, ending the UK's evacuation operation and its 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan.

British troops have left Kabul, ending the UK's evacuation operation and its 20-year military involvement in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Boris Johnson praised the “heroic” evacuation effort, even as the government acknowledged some eligible Afghan civilians had been left behind. The UK's top military officer conceded that “we haven't been able to bring everybody out."