{"id":20568,"date":"2026-08-29T05:23:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/29\/us-congress-extends-afghanistan-war-commission-mandate-by-one-year\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T05:23:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T05:23:52","slug":"us-congress-extends-afghanistan-war-commission-mandate-by-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/29\/us-congress-extends-afghanistan-war-commission-mandate-by-one-year\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress Extends Afghanistan War Commission&#8217;s Mandate by One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The co-chairs of the Afghanistan War Commission say the US Congress has extended the panel&#8217;s mandate for another year, a move they say will continue the process of a comprehensive assessment of America&#8217;s 20-year war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement released on Thursday, 5 September, the commission said the one-year extension would provide the necessary time to complete an independent, broad and thorough review of the US war in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the extension was approved with the support of both chambers of the US Congress and members of both the Republican and Democratic parties.<\/p>\n<p>The statement also said the findings of the review could offer lessons for future US leaders in making decisions about war.<\/p>\n<p>The Afghanistan War Commission was established in 2021 and was tasked with conducting a comprehensive review of the US&#8217;s two-decade-long war in Afghanistan. The war began after the US invasion in 2001 and continued until the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Congress extends the Afghanistan War Commission\u2019s mandate by one year to continue a comprehensive review of the 20-year war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international","category-secondary-headline"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}