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Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. [1] [2] Some of the invaders in the history of Afghanistan include the Maurya Empire, the ancient Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great, the Rashidun Caliphate, the Mongol Empire led by Genghis Khan, the Ghaznavid Empire of Turkic Mahmud of Ghazni, the Ghurid Dynasty of Tajik Muhammad of Ghor ...
British Strategic Victory, after achieving most desired goals (controlling Afghanistan’s foreign policy on the condition of subsidies paid to the Afghans, North-West Frontier province annexed to British India). Afghan Tactical Victory, after achieving the prevention of a British residence in Kabul and British military withdrawal. Panjdeh incident
August 6: A CH-47 Chinook helicopter transporting 30 U.S. soldiers (including 17 Navy SEALs), 1 civilian interpreter and 7 Afghan troops is shot down in Wardak Province by RPG-wielding Taliban insurgents. There were no survivors of the crash. This incident marks the deadliest day for U.S. Forces in Afghanistan since the invasion in 2001.
An invasion is a military offensive in which sizable number of combatants of one geopolitical entity aggressively enter territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objectives of establishing or re-establishing control, retaliation for real or perceived actions, liberation of previously lost territory, forcing the partition of a country, gaining concessions or access to ...
Law enforcement: Involved the training of Afghan commandos by British special forces to seek out and destroy drug laboratories and to confiscate drug shipments Operation Herrick: 20 June 2002: 12 December 2014: Throughout Afghanistan: Contingency: The codename for all British combat operations in Afghanistan from 2002 until 2014 Operation Highroad
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021), wars after an American-lead coalition intervened in 2001: United States invasion of Afghanistan, the initial invasion against the Taliban and al-Qaeda in 2001; Taliban insurgency, a rebellion against the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2001 to 2016
Afghan National Security Forces; Afghan Threat Finance Cell; Afghanistan fighting season; Afghanistan Medal (Australia) Afghanistan Mission Network; The American War in Afghanistan: A History; Darryn Deen Andrews; Authorization for Use of Military Force of 2001; Averting Loss of Life and Injury by Expediting SIVs Act of 2021
United States invasion of Afghanistan (18 P) W. War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (14 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Invasions of Afghanistan"