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  1. Operation Enduring Freedom ( OEF) was the official name used by the U.S. government for both the first stage (2001–2014) of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) and the larger-scale Global War on Terrorism. On 7 October 2001, in response to the September 11 attacks, President George W. Bush announced that airstrikes targeting Al-Qaeda and the ...

  2. Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, several nations took on Al-Qaeda and the Taliban during Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) in Afghanistan. OEF was the initial combat operations starting on 7 October 2001, in the wake of the 11 September attacks on the United States, and during 2002 and 2003.

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  4. Helmand province campaign. The Helmand province campaign was a series of military operations conducted by the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) forces against Taliban insurgents and other local groups in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Their objective was to control a province that was known to be a Taliban stronghold, and a ...

    • June 4, 2006 – 2014
    • Both sides claim victory
    • Helmand province, Afghanistan
  5. Sep 11, 2001 · In response to the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people, Operation Enduring Freedom officially began 7 October 2001 with American and British bombing strikes against al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in Afghanistan. Initially, the Taliban was removed from power and al-Qaeda was seriously crippled, but forces continually dealt with a stubborn Taliban insurgency ...

  6. Apr 22, 2024 · The joint U.S. and British invasion of Afghanistan in late 2001 was preceded by over two decades of war in Afghanistan (see Afghan War).On December 24, 1979, Soviet tanks rumbled across the Amu Darya River and into Afghanistan, ostensibly to restore stability following a coup that brought to power a pair of Marxist-Leninist political groups—the People’s (Khalq) Party and the Banner ...

  7. Aug 5, 2017 · Naval History & Heritage Command, 2016. Download a PDF Version of 'US Navy in Operation Enduring Freedom' [1MB] On the morning of 11 September 2001, terrorists affiliated with al-Qaeda perpetrated the most devastating attack on the United States since the Japanese strike on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, in December 1941.

  8. THE U.S. ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN OPERATION Enduring FrEEdom. MARK R. FOLSE. SEPTEMBER 2001–MARCH 2002. OPERATION. Enduring. FrEEdom. THE U.S. ARMY IN AFGHANISTAN. Front cover: Composite image of a B–52 strike on Takur Ghar and a U.S. soldier overlooking “the Whale” during Operation AnAcondA, March 2002.

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