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Several events in early 2002 can be seen as the conclusion of the first phase of the US-led war in Afghanistan. The first was the dispersal of the major groups of the Taliban and al-Qaeda after the end of Anaconda. In February 2002, the United States decided to not expand international security forces beyond Kabul. [265]
American attention was diverted from Afghanistan when US forces invaded Iraq in March 2003. [153] In May 2003, the Taliban Supreme Court's chief justice, Abdul Salam, proclaimed that the Taliban were back, regrouped, rearmed, and ready for guerrilla war to expel US forces from Afghanistan. [154]
August 2012 – Afghan security forces kill twelve US soldiers in so-called "green on blue" attacks. [24] October 2012 – Three American soldiers killed as a result of a suicide strike against a joint U.S.-Afghan combat team in Eastern Afghanistan that left a total of 14 dead. [25]
The Congressional Gold Medal ceremony took place just one day before America marks the 23rd anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed almost 3,000 in New York City, northern ...
America's longest war is nearing its end, with a loss to the enemy it defeated in Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago, shock that the government and military it supported collapsed so quickly and ...
The blast at 5:36 p.m. on August 26, 2021, outside Hamid Karzai International Airport marked the worst casualty incident for Afghan civilians and US troops in Afghanistan in over a decade.
[5] [14] [44] [45] The American deaths were the first U.S. service deaths in Afghanistan since February 2020 and were the largest single loss of life of U.S. military personnel since the 2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown. [46] At least 150 more people were injured, [4] including 18 U.S. military personnel and a number of Taliban members ...
The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war.In February 2020, the Trump administration and the Taliban signed the United States–Taliban deal in Doha, Qatar, [7] which stipulated fighting restrictions for both the US and the Taliban, and in return for the Taliban's counter-terrorism commitments, provided ...