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While more than 5.7 million former refugees returned to Afghanistan after the 2001 invasion, [90] by the time the Taliban returned to power in 2021, 2.6 million Afghans remained refugees, [91] while another 4 million were internally displaced.
As a NATO member, Spain supported the invocation of Article V of the NATO charter. Spain made available Spanish military bases for military operations. Spanish forces have since supported the ISAF mission with about 2,500 combat troops in Afghanistan plus a helicopter detachment and 3 C-130 Hercules aircraft.
At the time of the invasion, the humanitarian situation in Afghanistan was dire, and the attacks in the United States caused thousands of Afghans to attempt to flee fearing potential U.S. military action - this on top of millions that were already refugees in regional countries due to the continuous conflict already in place for 22 years. [94]
He said the fall of the country to the Taliban represented a failure of ‘resolve’ by the Western alliance.
The organization played a prominent role in Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks, when the United States invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which interprets an external attack on any member to be an attack on all NATO members under the idea of collective defense. NATO has participated in a wide range of roles elsewhere ...
May 4: The Granai airstrike resulted in one of the highest civilian death tolls from Western military action since foreign forces invaded Afghanistan in 2001. July 2: Operation Khanjar begins; September 4: NATO planes attacks two fuel tankers, which had been hijacked by Taliban insurgents. Up to 142 people died in the attack, including over 100 ...
Counterinsurgency: A NATO-led operation as a follow-up operation to Operation Medusa, to clear Taliban rebels from the eastern provinces of Afghanistan Operation Mountain Lion: 11 April 2006: 2006: Near the Pakistan border: Counterinsurgency: Searching along the border with Pakistan for al-Qaeda and former Taliban forces Operation Mountain ...
A post on X claims that Secretary General of the North American Treaty Organization (NATO) Mark Rutte said he will expel the U.S. from the organization if President-Elect Trump “surrenders ...