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Operation Enduring Freedom begins.
President George W. Bush announces that U.S. and British forces have begun airstrikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan. -
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Operation Enduring Freedom
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U.S. forces searched a compound
used by Taliban leader, Mullah Mohammed Omar. -
Fall of Kabul
U.S. airstrikes and ground attacks by the anti-Taliban Afghan Northern Alliance lead to the fall of Kabul. -
Taliban loses its last major city
city of Kandahar falls -
UN provides security support to the Afghans.
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Hamid Karzai is elected to a two-year presidential term
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NATO assumes responsibility for the ISAF mission.
ISAF- International Security Assistance Force -
Afghanistan passes a new constitution by consensus.
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Afghanistan's first direct democratic election is held.
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Hamid Karzai, the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan.
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President George W. Bush makes his first visit to Afghanistan
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President Bush calls on NATO to increase troops in Afghanistan.
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suicide bomber blows up a checkpoint at Bagram Air Base
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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama makes his first visit to Afghanistan.
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President Obama approves a troop increase
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deadliest month for U.S. forces in Afghanistan
71 US casualities -
Violent protests break out in Afghanistan over reports that Qurans were burned at a U.S. military base
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Two suicide bombers strike a joint U.S.-Afghan military base
killing 13 people and injuring 78 others -
Afghan National Security Forces formally take over combat operations.
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President Obama announces that the United States combat mission in Afghanistan will end in December 2014.
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The United States and Afghanistan sign a joint security agreement
that will allow U.S. troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond the previous December deadline to withdraw. -
After 13 years, the United States and NATO end their combat mission with Afghanistan.