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Contingency: The codename for all British combat operations in Afghanistan from the start of the war in 2001 until 2002 Operation Vigilance: 15 April 2005: April 2005: Wardak Province: Counterinsurgency and Humanitarian: Targeted three individuals that coalition forces were trying to kill or capture, and included humanitarian aid drops in ...
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.
2 April 2018: Afghan military strike kills at least 70, including 21 terrorists, one of whom was a Taliban commander, and injured 30 others during a religious ceremony at a Mosque in Dasht-e-Archi. [39] 3 April 2018: US drone strike killed four ISIL militants in Nangarhar. [40]
Pages in category "Battles of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In 2001, Afghanistan had been at war for over 20 years. [1] The communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) seized power in 1978, and its policies sparked a popular uprising. [2] The Soviet Union, sensing PDPA weakness, intervened in 1979 to support the regime. [3]
Pakistani Taliban were hiding in distant areas of Kunar and Nuristan provinces of Afghanistan. [3] On 17 December, Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif, accompanied by the Director General of the Inter-Service Intelligence, Lieutenant-General Rizwan Akhtar, went on a visit to Kabul to meet with Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and General John F. Campbell, the commander of ...
The Soviet war had a damaging impact on Afghanistan. The death of up to 2 million Afghans in the war has been described as a "genocide" by a number of sources. [38] [39] [40] Five to ten million Afghans fled to Pakistan and Iran, amounting to 1/3 of the prewar population of the country, and another 2 million were displaced within the country.
NATO operations in Afghanistan (1 C, 43 P) Pages in category "Military operations of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.