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More than 1,100 remain unidentified. Story by Thao Nguyen, USA TODAY • 2w. Nearly 23 years after the 9/11 attacks, New York City officials identified the remains of a Long Island man who was...
Sixteen years earlier, before the 9/11 attacks upended the couple’s world, it was Mariam el Fazazi who had lived as a virtual prisoner, unable to leave her apartment or socialize without her ...
Sep 9, 2021 · RACHEL MARTIN, HOST: This week, the nation is marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11. After those attacks came the so-called war on terror, a two-decade-long campaign that changed this country. The ...
Sep 11, 2001 · The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum has more resources on the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. The 9/11 terrorist attacks killed 2,977 people and changed the world as we knew it. President George W. Bush led the national response in the uncertain days after the attacks, comforted a grieving ...
- September 11, 2001: Us Attacked
- September 18, 2001: AUMF Approved
- October 7, 2001: ‘Enduring Freedom’ Launched
- April 17, 2002: Transitional Afghan Govt
- October 10, 2002: Iraq AUMF Approved
- 2003-2008: Taliban Regroups, Bush Sends More Troops
- Number of Soldiers Peaks Under Obama
- May 2, 2011: Bin Laden Killed in Pakistan
- June 2011: Obama Announces Troop Withdrawal
- End of Afghanistan Combat Operations
Nineteen members of al-Qaeda, a group granted sanctuary in by Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, hijack four commercial airliners in the US. Two of the planes are flown into the World Trade Center in New York City, collapsing both towers. One plane is flown into the Pentagon, the seat of the US Department of Defense, in Virginia. The fourth plane cras...
Then-President George W Bush signs the 2001 Authorisation of Use of Military Force (AUMF). The resolution, which was passed by Congress with only one legislator objecting, legally permits the US president, without further congressional approval, to use military action against a wide array of people or groups that “planned, authorised, committed, or...
Less than a month after the September 11 attacks, US President George W Bush launches “Operation Enduring Freedom” in Afghanistan, after the Taliban refuses to hand over al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. In a matter of weeks, the US-led forces overthrow the Taliban, which had been in power since 1996. Apart from air raids, the US also gives backing ...
A transitional government led by Hamid Karzai is established in Kabul. US Congress approves $38bn in spending as part of Bush’s plan to rebuild Afghanistan.
Congress passes the 2002 Iraq AUMF after the Bush administration warns the Baghdad is developing “weapons of mass destruction”. Bush signs the resolution into law on October 16. The resolution sets the US on track for the invasion of Iraq, although no evidence would be found to substantiate the Bush administration’s claims.
Attention is diverted from Afghanistan as US forces in 2003 mount an invasion of Iraq. As attention turns to Iraq, the Taliban and other armed groups regroup in their strongholds in the south and east of Afghanistan, from where they can easily travel to and from Pakistani tribal areas. In 2008, the US command on the ground calls for more manpower t...
In 2009, in the first months of the presidency of Barack Obama – elected on campaign promises to end the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan – there is a surge in the number of American soldiers in Afghanistan to about 68,000. In December, Obama raises the strength of US forces in Afghanistan to approximately 100,000. The objective, the US says, is to...
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who the US has identified as the mastermind behind the 9/11 attack, is killed on May 2, 2011, during an operation by US special forces in Pakistan, where he is in hiding.
Obama announces the US will begin withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, as the first attempts to negotiate between the US, Taliban and the Afghan government begin. By December, the US completely withdraws troops from Iraq.
In September 2014, Afghanistan signs a bilateral security accord with the US and a similar agreement with NATO: 12,500 foreign soldiers, of which 9,800 are Americans, will remain in the country in 2015, after the end of the NATO combat mission at the end of 2014. From the beginning of 2015, American troops will be charged with two missions: “anti-t...
New York fire department personnel examining a smashed New York City police car, during 9/11. Because of the events that took place on September 11, 2001, American society as a whole suffered dramatically. Recovery took years, and the economy declined drastically after the attacks.
Born 1990, 11 years old. Eleven-year-old Bernard Brown was clever, a quick wit, the kind of boy who kept his teachers on their toes. Estella Cleveland, who taught his fifth-grade class last year at Leckie Elementary School in Southeast Washington, loved him. “He used to give the fourth-grade teacher fits.
