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7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021. (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) First phase: 7 October 2001 – 28 December 2014. Second phase: 1 January 2015 – 30 August 2021 [34] [35] Location. Afghanistan [a] Result. Taliban victory [36] Islamic State–Taliban conflict and insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continues.
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Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was the official name used...
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Numbers of fatalities. The United States Department of...
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War in Afghanistan, Afghan war, or Afghan civil war may...
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The war in Afghanistan ended with the Taliban victorious...
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- Operation Enduring Freedom
Main article: Prelude to the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) In 2001, Afghanistan had been at war for over 20 years. [1] The communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) seized power in 1978, and its policies sparked a popular uprising. [2] The Soviet Union, sensing PDPA weakness, intervened in 1979 to support the regime. [3]
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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 onlineThe war in Afghanistan, launched October 7, 2001 as U.S. "Operation Enduring Freedom", has now stretched over a decade, entering an eleventh year on October 7, 2011 and marking for the U.S. the longest period of sustained warfare in its history – greater than the time the United States was involved in World War I, World War II and the Korean ...
Afghan conflict. Part of the Cold War (1978–1991) and the Global War on Terrorism (2001–2021) Development of the Afghan Civil War from the Peshawar Accord in April 1992 to the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001. Date. 27 April 1978 – present.
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7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021. (19 years, 10 months, 3 weeks and 2 days) First phase: 7 October 2001 – 28 December 2014. Second phase: 1 January 2015 – 30 August 2021 [34] [35] Location. Afghanistan [a] Result. Taliban victory [36] Islamic State–Taliban conflict and insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continues.
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 ...
