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This is a list of known code names and related information for military operations associated with the war, including operations to airlift citizens of coalition countries and at-risk Afghan civilians from Afghanistan as the war drew to a close.
Afghanistan is a mountainous landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. [1] [2] Some of the invaders in the history of Afghanistan include the Maurya Empire, the ancient Macedonian Empire of Alexander the Great, the Rashidun Caliphate, the Mongol Empire led by Genghis Khan, the Ghaznavid Empire of Turkic Mahmud of Ghazni, the Ghurid Dynasty of Tajik Muhammad of Ghor ...
Islamic State of Afghanistan (1992–2001) Third Afghan Civil War (1992–1996) (1992–1996) Islamic State of Afghanistan: Taliban Al-Qaeda: Regime change: Taliban enter Kabul, and establish the largely unrecognized Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan; Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001) Fourth Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) (1996–2001)
While more than 5.7 million former refugees returned to Afghanistan after the 2001 invasion, [91] by the time the Taliban returned to power in 2021, 2.6 million Afghans remained refugees, [92] while another 4 million were internally displaced. [93] [94]
President Joe Biden, anxiously seeking to complete the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, watched a nightmare scenario unfold on Thursday when suicide bomb explosions outside the Kabul airport ...
October 19: Airborne invasion into Afghanistan by Rangers of the Third Ranger Battalion, Seventy Fifth Ranger Regiment and others seizing a Qandahar airfield named Objective Rhino. October 26: Afghan mujahedeen commander Abdul Haq killed by the Taliban. [76] [77] November 6: Zari, Keshendeh and Aq-Kupruk fall to the Northern Alliance [78]
United States invasion of Afghanistan (18 P) A. Airstrikes during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (23 P) B. Battles of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (4 C ...
United States invasion of Afghanistan (18 P) W. War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (14 C, 56 P) Pages in category "Invasions of Afghanistan"