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The war on terror, officially the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), [3] is a global military campaign initiated by the United States following the September 11 attacks in 2001, 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]
The phrase "War on Terror" was first officially used. [8] October 1 Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) terrorists carried out the Jammu and Kashmir legislative assembly car bombing in the city of Srinagar in Jammu and Kashmir, India, killing 38 and injuring 60. October 7 The War in Afghanistan begins.
Operation Enduring Freedom referred to the U.S.-led combat mission in Afghanistan. [16] [17] The codename was also used for counter-terrorism operations in other countries targeting Al Qaeda and remnants of the Taliban, such as OEF-Philippines, OEF-Trans Sahara, and possibly in Georgia's Pankisi Gorge, [18] primarily through government funding vehicles.
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 ...
Some experts disagree that the U.S. is safer. Former FBI agent Ali Soufan, who conducted some of the first interviews with Al Qaeda detainees after 9/11, wrote for The Washington Post recently ...
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." [2] [3] [4] "War on terror" discourse dominated US media outlets for several post-9/11 years.
As author and scholar Khaled A. Beydoun writes in his book American Islamophobia, “The state has linked Muslims, whether immigrants or citizens, living in the United States or abroad, to the suspicion of terrorism, and has formally enacted a two-front war: the foreign war, and the surveillance, policing, and cultural wars deployed within the ...
All of the unfinished U.S. conflicts in the Middle East are coming together into one big crisis for Biden.