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Counterinsurgency: The largest military offensive ever launched by NATO troops in Afghanistan to clear the city of Taliban militants and drug traffickers eliminating the last Taliban stronghold in Helmand. It involved US Marine units and Afghan troops along with the US Special Forces and other ISAF members [16] Operation Mountain Blizzard ...
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 ...
While more than 5.7 million former refugees returned to Afghanistan after the 2001 invasion, [91] by the time the Taliban returned to power in 2021, 2.6 million Afghans remained refugees, [92] while another 4 million were internally displaced. [93] [94]
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.
[250] These incidents created fractures in the partnership between Afghanistan and ISAF, [256] raised the question whether discipline within US troops was breaking down, [257] undermined "the image of foreign forces in a country where there is already deep resentment owing to civilian deaths and a perception among many Afghans that US troops ...
At the time of the invasion, the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan was dire, and the attacks in the United States caused thousands of Afghans to attempt to flee fearing potential U.S. military action - this on top of millions that were already refugees in regional countries due to the continuous conflict already in place for 22 years. [94]
United States invasion of Afghanistan (18 P) W. War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (14 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Invasions of Afghanistan"
United States invasion of Afghanistan (18 P) A. Airstrikes during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (23 P) B. Battles of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (4 C ...