The United States celebrated its 20th anniversary of 9/11 strikes and called for co-operation at major conventions since the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan and the return of Taliban rule.
On the occasion of September 11 in New York, relatives wiped away the tears, their voices breaking as they read the names of the nearly 3,000 people killed in the attack, the worst in US history.
Operations at the “Ground Zero” where many of the dead – some of whom jumped to their death from the burning towers of the World Trade Center – took place in high security, and Lower Manhattan was successfully closed.
The first silence was recorded at 8:46 a.m., the bell rang to indicate when the first hijacked plane crashed in the North Tower.
At 9:03 a.m., attendees stood up to find out when the South Tower had been struck. At 9:37 am, it was the Pentagon, when a hijacked plane killed 184 people on the plane and on the ground.
9:59 a.m., the time the South Tower collapsed. At 10:03 a.m., he recalled a fourth plane that crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, when passengers clashed with the hijackers. And at 10:28 a.m., North Tower falls.
The memorial comes less than two weeks after the last American troops left Kabul, ending what has been called the “eternal war”.