October 7, 2001 – Operation Enduring Freedom begins. US President George W. Bush announces that US and British forces have begun airstrikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan. Airstrikes ...

We animated the key moments of the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, breaking down how Operation Enduring Freedom unfolded from the first airstrikes to the rapid collapse of the Taliban regime.

Monday was the 12th anniversary of the beginning of the United States's war in Afghanistan. Very few people noticed. It was on October 7, 2001, not even a month after 9/11 attacks, that the first ...

Giustozzi, Antonio, The Taliban at War: 2001-2018 (United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2019). Hanagan, Deborah L., NATO in the Crucible: Coalition Warfare in Afghanistan, 2001-2014 (United States ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — U.S. veterans of the war in Afghanistan are telling a commission reviewing decisions on the 20-year conflict that their experience was not only hell, but also confounding, ...

KABUL (Reuters) - An Afghan grand assembly, known as the Loya Jirga, on Sunday approved the release of 400 "hard-core" Taliban prisoners, a decision endorsed by President Ashraf Ghani, paving the way ...

The New York State Division of Military and Naval Affairs has begun issuing commemorative medals to honor veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. These medals, approved by the state legislature and ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the US War in Afghanistan, which began on October 7, 2001 with allied air strikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets. The United States linked the September 11, 2001 terrorist ...