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On January 28, 2010, an International Conference on Afghanistan was held at Lancaster House in London, where members of the international community discussed the further progress on the Petersberg agreement from 2001 on the democratization of Afghanistan after the ousting of the Taliban regime. The one-day conference, hosted by the United ...
2010 Badakhshan massacre. On 5 August 2010, ten members of International Assistance Mission (IAM) Nuristan Eye Camp team were killed in Kuran wa Munjan District of Badakhshan Province in Afghanistan. [1][2] The team was attacked as it was returning from Nuristan to Kabul. One team member was spared while the rest of the team were killed ...
Names. This twenty-year armed conflict (2001–2021) is referred to as the War in Afghanistan[93]in order to distinguish it from the country's various other wars,[94]notably the ongoing Afghan conflictof which it was a part,[95]and the Soviet–Afghan War.
Battle of Qala-i-Jangi. 25 November 2001. 1 December 2001. Qala-i-Jangi District. Battle: It began with the uprising of Taliban prisoners held at Qala-i-Jangi fortress and escalated into one of the bloodiest engagements of the war in Afghanistan. Battle of Takur Ghar. 4 March 2002. 5 March 2002. The peak of Takur Ghar.
The Maywand District murders were the thrill killings of at least three Afghan civilians perpetrated by a group of U.S. Army soldiers from January to May 2010, during the War in Afghanistan. The soldiers, who referred to themselves as the "Kill Team", [ 1 ][ 2 ] were members of the 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 2nd Battalion, 1st Infantry ...
The May 2010 Kabul bombing occurred on May 18, 2010, in Kabul, Afghanistan. 18 people, including 5 US soldiers and a Canadian soldier, were killed and 52 were injured when a NATO convoy was targeted by a Taliban suicide attacker. [1] It was the deadliest attack against NATO forces in Afghanistan since September 2009, when six Italian soldiers ...
On May 28, 2010, the 1,000th American fatality in Afghanistan was a Marine from Camp Pendleton killed by a roadside bomb while on a foot patrol in Helmand province. [ 19 ] [ 14 ] On August 22, 2010, two U.S. soldiers from the Vermont Army National Guard, 3rd Company, 172nd Infantry, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team were killed during an attack ...
The US and NATO have accused Iran of attempting to destabilize Afghanistan, while Iran has denied supporting militant groups. [14] On 24 December 2010 it was reported that an officer from the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps, was captured by U.S. Special Forces on December 18, a NATO spokesman said.