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The attack happened on September 11, 2001. A terrorist group flew 2 planes into the 2 towers in New York. The north and the south towers were both destroyed. -
The war between Afghanistan and the United States started in 2001. It started after the terrorist attack on the twin towers. -
October 8th, 2001, The united states and Britain begin a bombing campaign against Afghanistan. -
The United States army tracks down Al-Qaeda and finds bin Laden. Somehow, Bin Laden escapes on horseback after a 2 week long war in a cave killing hundreds. -
Operation Anaconda, the first major ground assault and the largest operation since Tora Bora, is launched against an estimated eight hundred al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the ShahiKot Valley south of the city of Gardez. -
Bin laden makes a videotape talking to the United States and telling him what he feels. He states," We want to restore freedom to our nation, just as you lay waste to our nation." -
A notorious Taliban military commander, Mullah Dadullah, is killed in a joint operation by Afghan, U.S., and NATO forces in the south of Afghanistan. -
President Barack Obama announces plans to send seventeen thousand more troops to the war zone. Obama reaffirms campaign statements that Afghanistan is the more important U.S. front against terrorist forces. -
President Obama announces a new strategy for the war effort, linking success in Afghanistan to a stable Pakistan. The strategy is to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al Qaeda and its safe havens in Pakistan -
U.S. Marines launch a major offensive in southern Afghanistan, representing a major test for the U.S. military’s new counterinsurgency strategy. This Strategy involved more than 4,000 US Marines. -
Al-Qaeda leader bin Laden, responsible for the 9/11 attacks, is killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan. The death of the United States’ primary target for a war that started ten years ago fuels the long-simmering debate about continuing the Afghanistan war. -
President Obama outlines a plan to withdraw thirty-three thousand troops by the summer of 2012—the surge troops sent in December 2009, including ten thousand by the end of 2011. -
The United States drops its most powerful non-nuclear bomb on suspected self-proclaimed Islamic State militants at a cave complex in eastern Nangarhar Province. -
The Taliban carry out a series of bold terror attacks in Kabul that kill more than 115 people amid a broader upsurge in violence. The attacks come as the Trump administration implements its Afghanistan plan. -
The last U.S. military forces depart Afghanistan, leaving it under Taliban rule. The exit follows a chaotic, two-week withdrawal process during which more than 120,000 people are evacuated.