The Afghanistan war turns 10 years old today - October 7,2011
The War in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the USA,the UK and the Afghan United Front (Northern Alliance) launched ''Operation Enduring Freedom'' with the stated goal of dismantling the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization and ending its use of Afghanistan as a base after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center(WTC) and Pentagon in USA.The aim of the invasion was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda members to be put on trial, to destroy the organization of Al-Qaeda, and to remove the Taliban regime which supported.
Northern Alliance fighters ride on a T-62 tank past a dead Taliban fighter on the motorway 3km north of Kabul - November 13, 2001
A young Afghan woman shows her face in public for the first time after five years of Taliban Sharia law as she waits at a food distribution centre in Kabul - November 14, 2001
Anti-Taliban Afghan fighters watch several explosions from US bombings in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan - December 16, 2001
In the 1st phase of ''Operation Enduring Freedom''ground forces of the Afghan United Front working with U.S. and British Special Forces and with massive U.S. air support, ousted the Taliban regime from power in Kabul and most of Afghanistan in a matter of weeks.The democratic Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was established and an interim government under Hamid Karzai was created.Most of the senior Taliban leadership fled to neighboring Pakistan.
By December 2001 the International Security Assistance Force(ISAF)established by the UN Security Council to secure Kabul and surrounding areas.
In 2003 NATO took control of ISAF.
As of June 2010, the war in Afghanistan became the United States' longest war, if the length of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War is measured from August 7, 1964, to March 1973
On June 22, 2011, President Obama announced that 10,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn by the end of 2011. An additional 23,000 troops will leave the country by the summer of 2012.
Demonstrators lie on the ground during a die-in protest against US involvement in the war in Afghanistan, on the 10th anniversary of the war in Los Angeles, California.
The War in Afghanistan began on October 7, 2001, as the armed forces of the USA,the UK and the Afghan United Front (Northern Alliance) launched ''Operation Enduring Freedom'' with the stated goal of dismantling the Al-Qaeda terrorist organization and ending its use of Afghanistan as a base after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center(WTC) and Pentagon in USA.The aim of the invasion was to find Osama bin Laden and other high-ranking Al-Qaeda members to be put on trial, to destroy the organization of Al-Qaeda, and to remove the Taliban regime which supported.
Northern Alliance fighters ride on a T-62 tank past a dead Taliban fighter on the motorway 3km north of Kabul - November 13, 2001
Anti-Taliban Afghan fighters watch several explosions from US bombings in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan - December 16, 2001
In the 1st phase of ''Operation Enduring Freedom''ground forces of the Afghan United Front working with U.S. and British Special Forces and with massive U.S. air support, ousted the Taliban regime from power in Kabul and most of Afghanistan in a matter of weeks.The democratic Islamic Republic of Afghanistan was established and an interim government under Hamid Karzai was created.Most of the senior Taliban leadership fled to neighboring Pakistan.
By December 2001 the International Security Assistance Force(ISAF)established by the UN Security Council to secure Kabul and surrounding areas.
In 2003 NATO took control of ISAF.
As of June 2010, the war in Afghanistan became the United States' longest war, if the length of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War is measured from August 7, 1964, to March 1973
On June 22, 2011, President Obama announced that 10,000 U.S. troops would be withdrawn by the end of 2011. An additional 23,000 troops will leave the country by the summer of 2012.
Demonstrators lie on the ground during a die-in protest against US involvement in the war in Afghanistan, on the 10th anniversary of the war in Los Angeles, California.
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