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The War in Afghanistan was an armed conflict from 2001 to 2021. It was the direct response to the September 11 attacks . It began when an international military coalition led by the United States launched an invasion of Afghanistan , declaring Operation Enduring Freedom as part of the earlier-declared war on terror ; toppling the Taliban -ruled ...
- Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the official name used...
- United States
Numbers of fatalities. The United States Department of...
- War in Afghanistan
War in Afghanistan, Afghan war, or Afghan civil war may...
- Aftermath
The war in Afghanistan ended with the Taliban victorious...
- History
Flag of the Taliban. This is a timeline of the background of...
- Afghan Security Forces
The Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), also known as...
- Canadian
Canadian Forces personnel carry the coffin of a deceased...
- Taliban Insurgency
While the pre-2001 Taliban suppressed opium production, the...
- Operation Freedom's Sentinel
Operation Freedom's Sentinel (OFS) was the official name...
- Shinwar Massacre
The Shinwar Shooting or Shinwar Massacre was the alleged...
- Operation Enduring Freedom
Main article: Afghan Civil War (1996–2001) Taliban (red) and Northern Alliance (blue) control over Afghanistan in 2000. In 1996, with military support from Pakistan and financial support from Saudi Arabia, the Taliban seized Kabul and founded the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. [14]
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- Afghan Protestation of Civilian Deaths Caused by International Forces
- Civilian Casualties by Insurgent Forces
- International Protests Against Us and Allies Causing Deaths
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There is no single official figure for the overall number of civilians killed by the war since 2001, but estimates for specific years or periods have been published by a number of independent organizations and are presented here. Most, if not all, of the sources state that their estimates are likely to be underestimates.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai's repeated pleas to the foreign military forces
From 2002, Afghan President Hamid Karzairepeatedly pleaded with the foreign military forces in his country to avoid killing Afghan civilians in their operations. 1. In July 2002, following a US bombing raid in which Afghan officials say 44 people were killed, including many celebrating a wedding and many children, the Afghan president protested to the U.S. military authorities, and urged them to be more careful in their targeting to prevent any more civilian deaths. U.S. President George W. B...
Afghan public protests over civilian deaths
1. On July 4, 2002, in the first anti-American protest since the overthrow of the Taliban, about 200 Afghans marched through the streets of Kabul to express their outrage over attacks by U.S. forces which killed scores of civilians, including many children and 25 members of one family. According to Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah, 44 people were killed and 120 wounded in the U.S. attacks on about a half dozen villages in Uruzgan province, which villagers said included an attack on a pre-wedd...
Afghan protests over Taliban killings
After the Taliban's killing of 26 young men on 19 October 2008, in southern Kandahar Province in a militant-controlled area – unclear is whether the victims were Afghan government soldiers or recruits or mere civilians looking for work in Iran – the following Friday, 1,000 people in Mihtarlam in northeastern Laghman Province, where most of those killed came from, protested against those Taliban killings.
In 2006, according to Human Rights Watch, 669 Afghan civilians were killed in armed attacks by anti-government forces, primarily Taliban and Hezbi Islami. In all 2008 until October, 29 aid workers, 5 of whom non-Afghanis, were killed in Afghanistan. In 2008–2009, according to The Christian Science Monitor, 16 improvised explosive deviceswere plante...
The deaths of thousands of Afghan civilians caused directly and indirectly by the U.S. and NATO bombing campaignshave been a major underlying focus of protests against the war in Afghanistan since 2001. Protests around the world, starting with large-scale global demonstrations in the days leading up to the official launch of U.S. Operation Enduring...
Gregory, Thomas (26 Apr 2012). "Potential Lives, Impossible Deaths: Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties and the Politics of Intelligibility". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 14 (3): 327–34...Bohannon, John (11 March 2011). "Counting the Dead in Afghanistan". Science. 331 (6022): 1256–1260. doi:10.1126/science.331.6022.1256. PMID 21393522.Rethink Afghanistan – Part 4: Civilian Casualties 12 min. section of the full documentary film Rethink Afghanistanavailable onlineAug 20, 2021 · Published: August 20, 2021. copy page link. Print Page. Keith D. McGrew/US Army/Getty Images. The United States launched the war in Afghanistan following the September 11, 2001 terrorist...
War in Afghanistan (2001–2021): Began with the United States' invasion of Afghanistan on 7 October 2001. Overthrow of the Taliban and eventual establishment of the internationally recognized Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
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Aug 17, 2021 · The Legacy of the U.S. War in Afghanistan in Nine Graphics | Council on Foreign Relations. The U.S. overthrow of the Taliban regime after the 9/11 attacks ushered in a massive nation-building...
February 1: The Afghanistan Compact is developed, establishing a framework of international cooperation with Afghanistan. March 29: Battle of Lashkagar. Taliban fighters attack a NATO base. May 15: Operation Mountain Thrust is launched, the largest offensive since the fall of the Taliban.
