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9/11 terror attacks: 25 years later

DW reporters
September 10, 2026

Almost 3,000 people were killed in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks in the US. A quarter century later, the world is still feeling the repercussions from the war on terror that the US started in retaliation.

A firefighter looks up at one of the towers of the World Trade Center that has smoke clouds billowing out of it. He and other firefighters are heading toward the burning building. September 11, 2001
Image: Jose Jimenez/Primera Hora/Getty Images/AFP
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