War In Afghanistan Timeline

2001 Oct 7 United States Invades Afghanistan
President George Bush and Tony Blair yesterday warned the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in the starkest terms that preparations for the war against them were complete and attacks could be...
2009 Dec 1 President Obama Announces 30,000-Troop Surge in Afghanistan After Months of Deliberation
President Obama has made a necessary, mature national security decision on Afghanistan – a state of affairs that he seems embarrassed about. Philosophically, Obama’s West Point speech ...
2010 Jul 25 WikiLeaks Publishes the Afghan War Diary
The Afghanistan war logs series of reports on the war in Afghanistan published by the Guardian is based on the US military's internal logs of the conflict between January 2004 and Decembe...
2011 Aug 6 31 Americans Killed in Helicopter Crash
A military helicopter was shot down in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops, most of them from the elite Navy SEALs unit that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Lad...
2011 Oct 29 Suicide Attack Kills 13 US Soldiers
A heavy explosion rocked Darul-Amman area of capital Kabul early Saturday. The incident took place after a suicide bomber detonated his explosives near a foreign troops convoy on Darul A...
2011 Nov 26 Deadly NATO Airstrike Angers Pakistan
Hundreds of angry protesters gathered outside the American consulate in Karachi on Sunday, as Pakistan held funerals for the 24 soldiers killed Saturday in a NATO cross-border airstrike i...