War on Terror succeeded but experts lament 'cost' of human life, 'distraction' from other threats
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The U.S. eliminated al Qaeda and shattered ISIS after the two-decade mission across the Middle East, but those successes cost many lives and distracted from other threats.
The U.S. launched what it famously called "the War on Terror" after the simultaneous terrorist attacks against the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001. A fourth plane, United Flight 93, crashed in Pennsylvania as passengers fought back and tried to regain control of the plane to prevent it from reaching Washington, D.C. Peter Aitken is a Fox News Digital reporter with a focus on national and global news.
The War on Terror focused on central Asia with a 20-year mission in Afghanistan as well as missions against groups including al Qaeda and ISIS in Iraq, Somalia, Yemen, Libya and Syria.
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