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The First Gulf War
Saddam Hussein invaded his small, oil-rich neighbor in the summer of 1990. Soon after the Department faced its first full-scale post-Cold War international crisis. -
World Trade Center Bombing
On February 26 of 1993, a truck bomb detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. It killed six people and injured over a thousand. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
In Oklahoma a truck packed with explosives was detonated. This tragedy left 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. -
United States involvement in Serbia
In 1997, a civil war between Kosovo and Serbia broke over Kosovo's independence. The next year, the United States and NATO stepped in to stop the genocide. -
The attack on the USS Cole
The USS Cole sits off the coast of Yemen after a terrorist attack blew a hole in its side. This left 17 US sailors dead. -
Invasion of Afghanistan
Its public aims was to dismantle al-Qaeda and to deny it a safe base of operations in Afghanistan by removing the Taliban from power. The Taliban controlled 90% of the country by 2001 -
9/11
19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked 4 airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Almost 3,000 people were killed and both twin towers collapsed. -
Invasion of Iraq
This event signified the start of the Iraq war. This invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations. -
November 2015 Paris attacks
Three suicide bombers struck outside the Stade de France in Saint-Denis, during a football match. The attackers killed 130 people,and 413 people were injured. -
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting
19-year-old Nikolas Cruz confessed to being the perpetrator. 17 people, 14 students and 3 staff members, were fatally shot and 14 others were wounded, making the shooting one of the deadliest school massacres.
