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This is a list of years in Afghanistan. See also the timeline of Afghan history . For only articles about years in Afghanistan that have been written, see Category:Years in Afghanistan .
This twenty-year armed conflict (2001–2021) is referred to as the War in Afghanistan [95] in order to distinguish it from Afghanistan's various other wars, [96] notably the ongoing Afghan conflict of which it was a part, [97] and the Soviet–Afghan War.
April 17: The 87-year-old exiled king of Afghanistan, Mohammed Zahir Shah, returns. April 18: Tarnak Farm incident leaves four Canadians dead from friendly fire. June 11: King Zahir Shah opens the first post-Taliban loya jirga. [81] July 1: In Uruzgan province, a US AC-130 gunship struck a wedding party, killing 48 civilians and injuring 117 ...
The former Soviet Union marched into Afghanistan on Christmas Eve, 1979, claiming it was invited by the new Afghan communist leader, Babrak Karmal, and setting the country on a path of 40 years of ...
US President Joe Biden orders complete withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan by 11 September 2021 (later revised to 31 August 2021). 1 July: US forces leave Bagram Airfield, its largest base in Afghanistan after nearly 20 years. 15 August: Kabul falls to Taliban (Fall of Kabul). 2023 October - December
From May 1996, Osama bin Laden had been living in Afghanistan along with other members of al-Qaeda, operating terrorist training camps in a loose alliance with the Taliban. [1] Following the 1998 US embassy bombings in Africa, the US military launched cruise missiles at these camps with limited effect on their overall operations.
On 3 January 2014 a bomb blast was heard by NATO soldiers in a base in Kabul; there were no reported casualties or injuries. The day after, a bomb hit a U.S. military base in Kabul and killed one U.S. citizen. The bomb was planted by the Taliban, and the American service member was the first combat casualty in Afghanistan in that year.
America's longest war is nearing its end, with a loss to the enemy it defeated in Afghanistan nearly 20 years ago, shock that the government and military it supported collapsed so quickly and ...