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Start of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Hamid Karzai is sworn in as the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan.
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The Taliban's top military commander, Mullah Dadullah, is killed in a U.S.-led coalition operation.
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President Obama announces the deployment in 2010 of 30,000 additional U.S. troops. This new deployment will bring the U.S. total to almost 100,000 troops.
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Navy Seals raid a compound in Abbottbad, Pakistan and kill the Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
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Two Afghan civilians are killed and 77 U.S. troops and 25 Afghan workers are wounded when a Taliban suicide bomber detonates a large vehicle-borne improvised explosive device at the entrance of Combat Outpost Sayed Abad, an ISAF base in Afghanistan's Wardak province.
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President Obama announces that the United States combat mission in Afghanistan will end in December 2014.
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Obama announces that Operation Enduring Freedom has ended.