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July 25: WikiLeaks releases 90,000 leaked documents pertaining to the war in Afghanistan. September 18: Afghan Parliamentary Elections are held, widely criticized as fraudulent, although with notable instances of electoral institution impartiality. October 17: A US soldier murders a Taliban prisoner.
The War in Afghanistan was a prolonged conflict lasting from 2001 to 2021. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition under the name Operation Enduring Freedom in response to the September 11 attacks carried out by al-Qaeda , toppling the Taliban -ruled Islamic Emirate and establishing the Islamic Republic three years later.
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan survived until the Battle of Kabul, during which the mujahideen established the Islamic State of Afghanistan (ISA). Afghan Civil War (1992–1996): Began when various mujahideen groups withdrew support from and began fighting against the ISA, including Hezb-e Islami Gulbuddin, later largely replaced by the ...
The Taliban march into Kabul as internationally backed President Ashraf Ghani flees the country. Aug. 26, 2021 — Islamic State group suicide bombers and gunmen kill over 170 Afghans and 13 U.S ...
Afghanistan: Saqqawists: Escalated into civil war: Urtatagai conflict (1925–1926) Afghanistan Soviet Union: Peace treaty: Afghanistan is obligated to restrain Basmachi border raids; Soviet Union captures, then cedes back Urtatagai; Kingdom of Afghanistan (1926–1973) First Afghan Civil War (1928–1929) Amānullāh Khān (Until 14 January 1929)
This force would be halved by the end of 2015, and consolidated at Bagram Air Base and in Kabul. All US forces, with the exception of a "normal embassy presence", would be removed from Afghanistan by the end of 2016. [292] In 2014, 56 United States service members, and 101 contractors, died in Afghanistan. [293]
Tobias Ellwood, the British Conservative Party’s chair of the House of Commons defense select committee, discusses the evolving situation in Afghanistan. Taliban leaders marched into Kabul ...
Second Anglo-Afghan War: Afghanistan refused a British diplomatic mission, provoking a second Anglo-Afghan war. 1879: May: Second Anglo-Afghan War: To prevent British occupation of a large part of the country, the Afghan government ceded much power to the United Kingdom in the Treaty of Gandamak. 1880: 22 July