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2021 Kabul airlift. Large-scale evacuations of foreign citizens and some vulnerable Afghan citizens took place amid the withdrawal of US and NATO forces at the end of the 2001–2021 war in Afghanistan. The Taliban took control of Kabul and declared victory on 15 August 2021, and the NATO-backed Islamic Republic of Afghanistan collapsed.
Afghanistan. 13,072 drone strikes confirmed [3] Status. CIA and United States Central Command drone operations. Casualties and losses. Total killed: 4,138–10,088 [4] [5] Civilians killed: 310–919 [4] [5] Children killed: 73–191, [4] [5] Injured: 661–1,772 [5] [6] Since January 2001, multiple drone strikes have been conducted by the ...
A suicide bombing took place at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 26 August 2021, at 17:50 local time (13:20 UTC ), [11] during the evacuation from Afghanistan. [1] [6] [12] [13] At least 183 people were killed, including 170 Afghan civilians and 13 members of the United States military, [14] [4] the first American ...
Casualties and losses. 2 killed 17 wounded 9 aircraft destroyed or severely damaged. 14 killed 1 captured. The September 2012 raid on Camp Bastion was a Taliban raid on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan 's Helmand province on the night of 14 September 2012. [1] The base hosted British, American, Danish and Tongan military personnel at the time of the ...
Feb. 26—A renewed call to create special license plates to honor veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars remains alive under Senate Bill 2731, which was carried over from last legislative session.
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.
January 27: A United States Air Force E-11A was reported crashed in Afghanistan by US officials. The Taliban claimed it was shot down with all its occupants killed, which US officials denied. With the complete withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan on 30 August 2021, this was the last acknowledged US fatal aviation loss of the war.
The Afghan War documents leak, also called the Afghan War Diary, is a collection of internal U.S. military logs of the War in Afghanistan, which was published by WikiLeaks on 25 July 2010. [1] [2] The logs consist of over 91,000 [3] Afghan War documents, covering the period between January 2004 and December 2009.