Operation Enduring Freedom

By chaneya

  • 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

  • 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.

  • Hamid Karzai is elected to a two-year presidential term

  • NATO assumes responsibility for the ISAF mission.

    ISAF- International Security Assistance Force

  • Afghanistan passes a new constitution by consensus.

  • Afghanistan's first direct democratic election is held.

  • Hamid Karzai, the first democratically elected president of Afghanistan.

  • President George W. Bush makes his first visit to Afghanistan

  • President Bush calls on NATO to increase troops in Afghanistan.

  • suicide bomber blows up a checkpoint at Bagram Air Base

  • Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama makes his first visit to Afghanistan.

  • President Obama approves a troop increase

  • 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

  • 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.

  • President Obama announces that the United States combat mission in Afghanistan will end in December 2014.

  • 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.