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Dates Events September 11 The September 11 attacks in New York City, Washington D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, United States, killed 2,996 people.: September 12 The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1368: condemning the September 11 attacks, calling on all countries to co-operate in bringing the perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of the attacks to justice ...
The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism ( GWOT ), [ 3] is a global counterterrorist military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks and is the most recent global conflict spanning multiple wars. Some researchers and political scientists have argued that it replaced the Cold War. [ 4][ 5]
Operation Enduring Freedom ( OEF) was the official name used by the U.S. government for both the first stage (2001–2014) of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the larger-scale Global War on Terrorism. On 7 October 2001, in response to the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush announced that airstrikes targeting Al-Qaeda and the ...
The ‘war on terror’ allowed far-right extremism to flourish at home. “In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the rise of violent jihadism reshaped American politics in ways that created fertile ...
Global War on Terrorism Service Medal. Support of operations to counter terrorism, whether stationed in the United States or overseas. The Global War on Terrorism Service Medal ( GWOT-SM) is a military award of the United States Armed Forces which was created through Executive Order 13289 on 12 March 2003, by President George W. Bush.
Battle of Qala-i-Jangi. 25 November 2001. 1 December 2001. Qala-i-Jangi District. Battle: It began with the uprising of Taliban prisoners held at Qala-i-Jangi fortress and escalated into one of the bloodiest engagements of the war in Afghanistan. Battle of Takur Ghar. 4 March 2002. 5 March 2002. The peak of Takur Ghar.
2011: 2011 military intervention in Libya: Operation Odyssey Dawn, United States and coalition enforcing U.N. Security Council Resolution 1973 with bombings of Libyan forces. 2011: Osama Bin Laden is killed by U.S. military forces in Abbottabad, Pakistan as part of Operation Neptune Spear. 2011: Drone strikes on al-Shabaab militants begin in ...
The Iraq War, along with the War in Afghanistan, was described by President of the United States George W. Bush as "the central front in the War on Terror", and argued that if the U.S. pulled out of Iraq, "terrorists will follow us here." "War on terror" discourse dominated US media outlets for several post-9/11 years.