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Oct 21, 2020 · The NATO Chief Mentor at ANAOA, British Brigadier Jonathan Timmis, said the handover of Qargha was a ringing endorsement of the capability and maturity of the Afghan National Army. "Today is a celebration of Afghan growth.
- September 11, The Trigger
- How The Taliban Rode It Out
- Not America's First Rodeo in Afghanistan
- What Was Australia's Role?
- What If The Taliban Retake Afghanistan?
On October 7, 2001 – less than a month after the September 11 attacks that killed about 3,000 people in the US – then-president George W Bush launched Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. The ruling Islamist Taliban had been sheltering Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda movement, which carried out the attacks in the US. The operation opened a m...
In 2003, US forces waded into another conflict, the Iraq War, to oust dictator Saddam Hussein. With US attention diverted, the fragmented Taliban and other Islamist groups regrouped in their strongholds in the south and east – from where they could easily travel between their bases in Pakistan's tribal areas – and launched an insurgency. In 2008, U...
In the 1980s, at the height of America's Cold War with the Soviet Union, its Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) funnelled weapons and money to local rebels, the mujahedin, in the covert Operation Cyclone to defeat a Soviet invasion. That first Afghan War set off 40 years of conflict in the country. The CIA used Pakistan's then-dictator Zia ul-Haq to...
Australia completed its troop withdrawalfrom Afghanistan last month, well ahead of the deadline for withdrawal of US troops in September. Over 20 years, thousands of Australian troops were committed to support US troops and contain the threat of international terrorism. Of the more than 39,000 Australian soldiers sent to Afghanistan since 2001, 41 ...
Violence has been raging across Afghanistan since Mr Biden announced an unconditional troop withdrawal by September 11. The peace talks between the Taliban and the Afghan government – once a condition of withdrawal – in Qatar are stuttering, with as many as a quarter of districts having fallen to the Taliban already. With a Taliban takeover, Afghan...
May 1, 2021 · The US and Nato have had a presence in Afghanistan for almost 20 years. But the withdrawal, which runs until 11 September, comes amid escalating violence, with Afghan security forces on high...
Jun 30, 2021 · Why did US-led NATO forces stay in the country for two decades? The primary US goal was to hunt down Osama bin Laden and al-Qaida. But there was never a clear exit strategy.
Jun 20, 2023 · As a planner at NATO Headquarters, getting NATO’s engagement in Afghanistan to work effectively, in support of a worthy cause, became a professional North Star. The return of Taliban rule remains a personal scar.
Jul 2, 2021 · The last US and Nato forces have left Afghanistan's Bagram airbase, the centre of the war against militants for some 20 years, US officials say. The pull-out could signal that the complete...
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Aug 15, 2021 · DW presents a timeline of US and NATO activity in Afghanistan over the recent decades and the causes that led up to it.
