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Operation Enduring Freedom referred to the U.S.-led combat mission in Afghanistan. [16] [17] The codename was also used for counter-terrorism operations in other countries targeting Al Qaeda and remnants of the Taliban, such as OEF-Philippines, OEF-Trans Sahara, and possibly in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, [18] primarily through government funding vehicles.
Participants in the initial American operation, Operation Enduring Freedom, included a NATO coalition whose initial goals were to train the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) and assist Afghanistan in rebuilding key government institutions after the fall of the Taliban regime in December 2001.
The Taliban declined to extradite bin Laden and further ignored demands to shut down terrorist bases or extradite other suspected terrorists. In response, the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom on 7 October 2001, alongside the United Kingdom.
Though the US officially invaded on 7 October 2001 by launching Operation Enduring Freedom, covert operations had begun several weeks earlier. Fifteen days after the 9/11 attack, the US covertly inserted members of the CIA's Special Activities Division into Afghanistan, forming the Northern Afghanistan Liaison Team. [137]
In the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom to dismantle the Taliban regime that had sheltered Osama bin Laden. To achieve this goal, the U.S. military joined forces with the Northern Alliance , a group of rebels who had long been waging a guerrilla war against the Taliban.
2.1 Operation Enduring Freedom I - Combined Joint Task Force Mountain, October 2001 to June 2002 2.2 Operation Enduring Freedom II, June 2002 to January 2003 2.3 Operation Enduring Freedom IV - Combined Joint Task Force 180, July 2003 to May 2004
Operation Iraqi Freedom eventually led to the downfall of Saddam Hussein's 24-year regime and the captured of Hussein on 13 December 2003. Following Operation Iraqi Freedom, the Coalition Provisional Authority was established in Iraq and was succeeded by the Iraqi Interim Government , which presided over parliamentary elections in 2005 .
-6–7 October 2001 Operation ENDURING FREEDOM begins in Afghanistan. Company A, 112th Signal Battalion, and Company A, 528th SOSB [ 3 ] are among the first ARSOF units deployed to Camp Freedom at Karshi-Kanabad (K2) Air Base, Uzbekistan, to support the Joint Special Operations Task Force – North (JSOTF-North, or Task Force Dagger).