War in Afghanistan
Timeline: The U.S. War in Afghanistan - Council on Foreign Relations
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.
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) - Wikipedia
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 ...
Afghanistan War | History, Combatants, Facts, & Timeline | Britannica
Afghanistan War, international conflict beginning in 2001 that was triggered by the September 11 attacks. U.S. forces quickly toppled the ...
Afghanistan War: How Did 9/11 Lead To A 20-Year War? | IWM
In 2001 an international coalition led by the USA invaded Afghanistan to destroy terrorist organisation Al-Qaeda when the Taliban refused to hand over Osama ...
Instability in Afghanistan | Global Conflict Tracker
After the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in August 2021, the Taliban rapidly regained control of the country and the government in Kabul. Despite ...
War in Afghanistan | National Army Museum
Britain's latest war in Afghanistan began in the wake of '9/11' - the terrorist attacks on the United States that took place on 11 September 2001.
Remarks by President Biden on the End of the War in Afghanistan
State Dining Room 3:28 P.M. EDT THE PRESIDENT: Last night in Kabul, the United States ended 20 years of war in Afghanistan -- the longest ...
In Afghanistan, Was a Loss Better than Peace?
For Afghans, the statistics are nearly unimaginable: 70,000 Afghan military and police deaths, 46,319 Afghan civilians (although that is likely ...
What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan ...
SIGAR released its 11th lessons learned report examining the past 20 years of the U.S. reconstruction effort in Afghanistan. After spending $145 billion ...
One Year Since the Conclusion of the Afghanistan War
We mark one year since the end of the US war in Afghanistan, and I, like so many of you, have been reflecting on the sacrifice that American Service Members, ...
Afghanistan War | National Air and Space Museum
The Afghanistan War, commonly referred to as the war in Afghanistan, began in 2001 as a response to the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th, ...
Human and Budgetary Costs to Date of the U.S. War in Afghanistan ...
Since invading Afghanistan in 2001, the United States has spent $2.313 trillion on the war, which includes operations in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
1 year after US military left Afghanistan, a look back at public opinion
At the time of the military evacuation, 54% of Americans said the decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan was the right one, according ...
For nearly 20 years, NATO Allies and partner countries had military forces deployed to Afghanistan under a United Nations (UN) Security Council mandate.
Global War on Terror | George W. Bush Library
The Global War on Terror is an international, American-led military campaign launched following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Wars in Iraq (2003-2011) and Afghanistan (2001-2021) | Serving
Though the Iraq War and the Afghan War had not yet occurred when the Veterans History Project was created in 2000, over the last 20 years, veterans of these ...
Afghan War | History, Casualties, Dates, & Facts - Britannica
Afghan War (1978–92), internal conflict between the Afghan communist government, initially aided by Soviet troops, and anticommunist Islamic guerrillas ...
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the US Response
At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of ...
What We Need to Learn: Lessons from Twenty Years of Afghanistan ...
Afghanistan, its security forces, civilian government institutions, economy, and civil society. The Department of Defense (DOD) has also spent ...
The Afghanistan War Commission is a bipartisan legislative commission established by the US Congress in December 2021 to conduct a comprehensive review of key ...
War in Afghanistan
Armed conflictThe 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 Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate, and establishing the Islamic Republic three years later.
Afghan conflict
Armed conflictThe Afghan conflict is a term that refers to the series of events that have kept Afghanistan in a near-continuous state of armed conflict since the 1970s.
War in Afghanistan
EventAfghan Civil War
WarThe 1992–1996 Afghan Civil War, also known as the Second Afghan Civil War, took place between 28 April 1992—the date a new interim Afghan government was supposed to replace the Republic of Afghanistan of President Mohammad Najibullah—and the Taliban's occupation of Kabul establishing the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan on 27 September 1996.