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attacks in new york, washington, and pensylvania killing nearly 3000 people.
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Phillipines begin as part of operation enduring freedom in southern phillipines
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Horn of Africa begins
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Colin Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations Security council, stating categorically that Saddam Hussein was working to obtain key components to produce nuclear weapons.
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the Iran War begins. President George W. Bush refers to it as "the central front in the war on terror”
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Anti war groups across the world organized public protests against war with Iraq. About 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests.
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The Georgia train and equip program ends, but military assistance to Georgia continued through the Georgia sustainment and Stability operations
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The U.S. government, led by the C.I.A’s special actives division, begins a series of ongoing attacks on targets in northwest Pakistan using drones. These attacks sought to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants who were thought to have found a safe haven in Pakistan.
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the First London Bombings kill 52 people and injure 700 more
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Trans Sahara begins
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Newly elected Obama administration has stopped using the phrase "war on terror"; John Brennan announces that the U.S. is "at war with al Qaeda", not involved in a "global war on terror”
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Osama Bin Laden is killed in a raid by U.S. Navy Seals at his residence in Pakistan.
