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The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021. Launched as a direct response to the September 11 attacks , the war began when an international military coalition led by the United States invaded Afghanistan , declaring Operation Enduring Freedom as part of the earlier-declared war on terror , toppling the ...
- War on Terror Begins
- Shift to Reconstruction
- Troop Surge Under Obama
- Trump: 'We Will Fight to Win'
- Withdrawal of Us Troops
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Investigators determined the 9/11 attacks—in which terrorists hijacked four commercial airplanes, crashing two into the World Trade Center towers in New York City, one at the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., and one in a Pennsylvania field—were orchestrated by terrorists working from Afghanistan, which was under the control of the Taliban, an extrem...
During a speech on April 17, 2002, Bush called for a Marshall Planto aid in Afghanistan’s reconstruction, with Congress appropriating more than $38 billion for humanitarian efforts and to train Afghan security forces. In June, Hamid Karzai, head of the Popalzai Durrani tribe, was chosen to lead the transitional government. While approximately 8,000...
In a written statement released February 17, 2009, newly elected President Barack Obama pledged to send an extra 17,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan by summer to join 36,000 American and 32,000 NATO forces already deployed there. "This increase is necessary to stabilize a deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, which has not received the strategic at...
In 2015, the Taliban continued to increase its attacks, bombing the parliament buildingand airport in Kabul and carrying out multiple suicide bombings. In his first few months of office, President Donald Trump authorized the Pentagon to make combat decisions in Afghanistan, and, on April 13, 2017, the United States dropped its most powerful non-nuc...
The fourth president in power during the war, President Joe Biden, in April 2021, set the symbolic deadline of September 11, 2021, the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, as the date of full U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, with the final withdrawal effort beginning in May. Facing little resistance, in just 10 days, from August 6-15, 2021, the T...
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Aug 17, 2021 · Feb. 29, 2020 — U.S. and Taliban sign an agreement that sets the terms for a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan by May 1, 2021, but do not release two classified annexes that set the conditions...
Oct 15, 1999 · 1999 – 2021. The U.S. War in Afghanistan. The Taliban surged back to power two decades after U.S.-led forces toppled their regime in what led to the United States’ longest war. 1999. October 15,...
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This timeline of United States military operations, based in part on reports by the Congressional Research Service, shows the years and places in which United States Armed Forces units participated in armed conflicts or occupation of foreign territories.
May 1, 2006 · dates for the recent conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are included along with the official end date. for Operation New Dawn in Iraq on December 15, 2011, Operation Enduring Freedom in. Afghanistan on December 28, 2014, and Operation Freedom’s Sentinel on September 30, 2021.
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Aug 28, 2021 · With just days to go before the U.S. completes its withdrawal from Afghanistan, a look at how the 20 year old war began and ended - with the militant Taliban in power, and terrorist suicide...
