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    of the United States, offering support for military action from the start of the invasion preparations. The American military presence in Afghanistan...
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    period of relaxed Soviet Union–United States relations. Combat took place throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside, as most of the country's...
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  • Bagram). On 7 October 2001 the United States began an invasion of Afghanistan under Operation Enduring Freedom. The invasion was launched to capture Osama...
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  • Afghanistan may refer to: Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1978–1987) Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979) Afghan Civil...
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    Noor Wali Mehsud (category Leaders of Islamic terror groups)
    attacks and the subsequent United States invasion of Afghanistan, Mufti Noor Wali Mehsud returned to Afghanistan with a convoy of Deobandi Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam...
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  • in Afghanistan (2001–2021), wars after an American-lead coalition intervened in 2001: United States invasion of Afghanistan, the initial invasion against...
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    iteration of the armed forces was dissolved in 2001 after the downfall of the first Taliban government following the United States invasion of Afghanistan. It...
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    Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 was a turning point in the Cold War, when the United States started to financially support the Afghan resistance...
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  • The United States has been involved in 114 military conflicts. These include major conflicts like the American Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the...
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    The United States Armed Forces completed their withdrawal from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, marking the end of the 2001–2021 war. In February 2020, the...
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    efforts in Afghanistan. The first of these was Operation Veritas, which consisted of support during the United States invasion of Afghanistan in October...
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    following the United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 that successfully drove out the Taliban and led to the rise of Hamid Karzai. Afghanistan–Pakistan...
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    international military coalition led by the United States invaded Afghanistan, declaring Operation Enduring Freedom as part of the earlier-declared war on terror...
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    the brink of war with Iran. The Northern Alliance drove the Taliban away in December 2001, following the United States invasion of Afghanistan. The Islamic...
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  • staff member and a number of aid agency workers. Following the United States invasion of Afghanistan, and the surrender of the Taliban forces holding...
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    after the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan that had toppled the partially recognized Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. However, on...
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  • United States invasion of Afghanistan War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) The American War in Afghanistan: A History is about a book written by Carter Malkasian...
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    of Afghanistan, which fought the Northern Alliance during the Third Afghan Civil War before collapsing to the United States invasion of Afghanistan in...
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    Afghanistan", rather than a caliph claiming leadership of all Muslims worldwide. Following the September 11 attacks and the United States invasion of...
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    Kandahar, Afghanistan during the invasion of Afghanistan. The mission was an airfield seizure in support of a Delta Force raid on the nearby home of Mullah...
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    of Afghanistan as an unconquerable nation has been used by Afghanistan itself to deter invaders. In October 2001, during the United States invasion of...
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    17, 2001, during the final stages of the United States invasion of Afghanistan. It was launched by the United States and its allies with the objective...
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  • Khost Protection Force (category Paramilitary organisations based in Afghanistan)
    paramilitaries formed following the United States invasion of Afghanistan, in collaboration with the National Directorate of Security (NDS), being under its...
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  • 055 Brigade (category Military units and formations of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan)
    of a global Islamist revolution. About 100 members served as Bin Laden's personal security detail. Before the United States invasion of Afghanistan in...
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    Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. Afghanistan was admitted into the United Nations on 29 August 1946. In 1947, Afghanistan was the only United Nations member...
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  • Johnny Micheal Spann (category United States Marine Corps personnel of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021))
    Spann was the first American killed in combat during the United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001. He died at the Qala-i-Jangi fortress during an...
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  • The Battle of Sayyd Alma Kalay that took place near the Arghandab River in Afghanistan during the United States invasion of Afghanistan. The Taliban were...
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    army, which lasted until the United States invasion of Afghanistan in October–November 2001. By 2016, most of Afghanistan came under government control...
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    facto government of Afghanistan. From the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan through to the August 2021 Fall of Kabul, Afghanistan had interim and...
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    the United Arab Emirates. War in Afghanistan (2001–2021): Began with the United States' invasion of Afghanistan on 7 October 2001. Overthrow of the Taliban...
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