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  2. Afghan conflict - Wikipedia

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    U.S. Special Forces ODA 574 with Hamid Karzai during the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001. U.S. Marines of 1st Battalion, 6th Marines and an allied fighter near Siah Chub Kalay during Operation Asbury Park in 2004. The U.S.-led war in Afghanistan began on 7 October 2001, as Operation Enduring Freedom. It was designed to capture or ...

  3. Addressing America’s unfinished business in Afghanistan - AOL

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    Rescuing our Afghan partners will fulfill our sacred promise, taking seriously the terrorist threats from Afghanistan will keep us safe, and closing Guantanamo will end a shameful chapter.

  4. War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) - Wikipedia

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    This twenty-year armed conflict (2001–2021) is referred to as the War in Afghanistan [95] in order to distinguish it from the country's various other wars, [96] notably the ongoing Afghan conflict of which it was a part, [97] and the Soviet–Afghan War.

  5. United States invasion of Afghanistan - Wikipedia

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    The American-led invasion on 7 October 2001, marked the first phase of what would become the 20-year-long War in Afghanistan. Once the US invasion began om November 2001, they increased huge amount of territory including Kabul and Kandahar, while the terrorists Taliban lost nearly everything and they got enraged in which Americans had to leave ...

  6. Prelude to the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) - Wikipedia

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    CIA lawyers, working with officers in the Near East Division and Counter-terrorist Center, began to draft a formal finding for President George W. Bush's signature, authorizing a covert action program in Afghanistan. It would be the first in a decade to seek to influence the course of the Afghan war in favor of Massoud.

  7. TIMELINE-Key dates since the start of the 2001 war in ... - AOL

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    Sept. 11, 2001 - U.S. involvement in Afghanistan is triggered by the twin suicide attacks on the United States plotted in Afghanistan by al Qaeda militant leader Osama bin Laden, a Saudi who was ...

  8. International Conference on Afghanistan, Bonn (2001) - Wikipedia

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    Hotel Petersberg, site of the 2001 International Conference on Afghanistan Memorial of the conference in Königswinter. In December 2001, after Operation Enduring Freedom had toppled the Taliban government of Afghanistan, the German city of Bonn hosted a conference—widely known as the Bonn Conference—of Afghan leaders at Hotel Petersberg, to choose the leader of an Afghan Interim Authority ...

  9. The fall of Afghanistan’s horse power is a lesson to today’s ...

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    Some experts estimate that Afghanistan’s lithium, as well as other metals, could be worth as much as $1 trillion, a lifeline for a country that for years has labored at the lowest end of the UN ...