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2001 war in Afghanistan
The War in Afghanistan is an ongoing coalition conflict which began on October 7, 2001, as the US military's Operation Enduring Freedom that was launched, with help from the British military, in response to the September 11 attacks. The UK has, since 2002, led its own military operation, Operation...
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Operation Anaconda
Operation Anaconda is the code name for an operation in early March 2002 in which the United States military and CIA Paramilitary Officers working with allied Afghan military forces, attempted to destroy al-Qaeda and Taliban forces in the Shahi-Kot...
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- 17 days (Mar 1, 2002 — Mar 18, 2002)
Operation Avalanche
Operation Avalanche was a four-week U.S.-led offensive in December 2003 designed to disrupt a resurgence in militant activity in the southeastern territory of Afghanistan and to establish conditions for the provision of humanitarian aid. Described...
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- Dec 2003 —
Operation Red Wing
Operation Red Wing was a failed counter-insurgent mission in Kunar province, Afghanistan, involving four members of the United States Navy SEALs , which took place on June 28, 2005.
Three of the SEALs were killed during the initial operation, as...
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- Jun 28, 2005 — Jun 28, 2005
Operation ACCIUS
Operation Accius is the Canadian military's contribution to the civilian-led United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA). On November 28, 2002, the Minister of National Defence John McCallum announced that a senior Canadian Forces...
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- Dec 2001 — Dec 2001
Taliban insurgency
The Taliban insurgency took root shortly after the group's fall from power following the 2001 war in Afghanistan. The Taliban continue to attack Afghan, U.S., and other ISAF troops and many terrorist incidents attributable to them have been...
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- 2002 —
Operation Mountain Thrust
Operation Mountain Thrust was a U.S. commanded, Canadian and U.S.-led operation in the Afghanistan campaign, with more than 2,300 U.S., 3,300 British troops, 2,200 Canadian troops, about 3,500 Afghan soldiers and large air support. The operation was...
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- 2 months (May 15, 2006 — Jul 31, 2006)
2001 uprising in Herat
The 2001 uprising in Herat was a coordinated insurrection and uprising in the Afghan city of Herat as part of the United States war in Afghanistan. The city was captured on November 12 by Northern Alliance forces as well as Special Forces of both...
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- Nov 12, 2001 — Nov 12, 2001
Operation Medusa
Operation Medusa was a Canadian-led offensive by major elements of the International Security Assistance Force and Afghan National Army that began on September 2, 2006 as part of the ongoing war in Afghanistan. It aimed to establish government...
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- 15 days (Sep 2, 2006 — Sep 17, 2006)
Battle of Tora Bora
The Battle of Tora Bora was a military engagement that took place in Afghanistan in December 2001, during the opening stages of the war in that country launched following the 9/11 attacks on the United States. The U.S. and its allies believed that...
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- Dec 2001 — Dec 2001
Operation Mountain Fury
Operation Mountain Fury was a NATO-led operation begun on September 16, 2006 as a follow up operation to Operation Medusa, to clear Taliban rebels from the eastern provinces of Afghanistan. Another focus of the operation was to enable reconstruction...
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- 4 months (Sep 16, 2006 — Jan 15, 2007)
Battle of Panjwaii
The Battle of Panjwaii was a battle fought during two periods in the summer of 2006, primarily involving Canadian and Afghan soldiers being supported with some small elements of the Dutch, American, and British forces. There were two separate times...
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- 3 months (Jul 2006 — Oct 2006)
Operation Falcon Summit
Operation Falcon Summit (Pashto: Baaz Tsuka) was a Canadian-led operation in the Battle of Panjwaii and on a larger scale, the 2001–present War in Afghanistan.
NATO forces launched the operation on December 15, 2006, with the intention of expelling...
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- 17 days (Dec 15, 2006 — Jan 2007)
Battle of Qala-i-Jangi
The Battle of Qala-i-Jangi took place between November 25 and December 1, 2001, in Northern Afghanistan. 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...
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- 6 days (Nov 25, 2001 — Dec 1, 2001)
Operation Achilles
Operation Achilles was a NATO operation, part of the war in Afghanistan. Its objective was to clear the Helmand province of the Taliban. The operation began on March 6th of 2007 and the offensive was the largest NATO based operation ever held in...
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- 2 months (Mar 6, 2007 — May 30, 2007)
Operation Kryptonite
Operation Kryptonite was the name given to a joint operation including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and the Afghan National Army, representing the ISAF and NATO. The operation itself was part of Operation Achilles. The intention of the...
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- 11 days (Feb 2007 — Feb 12, 2007)
Battle of Mazari Sharif
The fall of Mazar-i-Sharif was the result of the first major offensive of the 2001 war in Afghanistan. U.S. Special Forces and aerial bombardment accompanied a push into the city of Mazari Sharif in the Balkh Province by the United Islamic Front for...
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- Nov 9, 2001 — Nov 9, 2001
Operation Hoover
Operation Hoover was a Canadian-led offensive against the Taliban in the Kandahar Province district of Zhari. The aims of the operation were to root out as many as 300 suspected Afghan insurgents who had moved into the villages of the Zhari District...
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- 1 days (May 24, 2007 — May 25, 2007)
Operation Lastay Kulang
Operation Lastay Kulang or Pickaxe Handle was a British-led NATO offensive in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan. (The name of the operation is Pashto for "pickaxe-handle".) Lastay Kulang began on May 30 and ended on June 14, 2007, with...
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- 15 days (May 30, 2007 — Jun 14, 2007)
Battle of Oruzgan
The Battle of Chora took place in and around the town of Chora (3,000 inhabitants), in Afghanistan's Orūzgān Province, between June 15 and June 19, 2007. The fighting was between ISAF and Afghan forces on one side and Taliban forces on the other for...
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- 4 days (Jun 15, 2007 — Jun 19, 2007)
Operation Chakush
Operation Hammer was a British-led NATO operation in the southern Helmand province of Afghanistan. The Task Force level offensive, codenamed 'Chakush' or 'Hammer', began in the early hours of July 24, 2007 in the area between Heyderabad and...
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- 3 months (Jul 24, 2007 — Nov 1, 2007)
Battle of Firebase Anaconda
The Attack on Firebase Anaconda was a military engagement that took place on August 8th, 2007. A group of roughly 75 Afghan militants mounted a rare frontal assault on a United States' Firebase Anaconda, but were repulsed with approximately 20...
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- Aug 8, 2007 — Aug 8, 2007
Battle of Lashkagar
The Friendly Fire incident at Sangin was a military incident that took place on March 29, 2006. Afghan militants mounted an assault on a forward operating base in Helmand province near the town of Lashkagar, which had been opened only six weeks...
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- Mar 29, 2006 — Mar 29, 2006
Siege of Sangin
The Siege of Sangin lasted between June 2006 and April 2007, during which time Taliban insurgents besieged the district centre of Sangin District in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, occupied by British ISAF soldiers. During the siege, fighting became...
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- 9 months (Jun 27, 2006 — Apr 5, 2007)
Helmand province campaign
The Helmand province campaign is a series of military operations conducted by ISAF forces against Taliban insurgents in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Their objective has been to control a province that is known to be a Taliban stronghold, and...
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- Jun 4, 2006 —
Operation Harekate Yolo
Operation Harekate Yolo (Persian for front straightening) was a two part military operation involving NATO ISAF and Afghanistan government forces against the Taliban as part of the war in Afghanistan .
In late October 2007, Regional Command North...
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- 1 months (Oct 2007 — Nov 2007)
Operation Kaika
Operation Kaika was a joint operation between American Special Forces and Afghan National Army soldiers, to establish a control base as part of the larger Operation Mountain Thrust, and clear Taliban fighters from three villages about 12 miles...
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- 2 days (Jun 23, 2006 — Jun 25, 2006)
Operation Karez
Operation Karez was a military operation between May 13–23, 2008 involving Norwegian and German ISAF and Afghan government forces against the Taliban as part of the war in Afghanistan. Their objective was to eliminate the presence of Taliban...
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- 10 days (May 13, 2008 — May 23, 2008)
Sarposa Prison attack
The Sarposa Prison attack was a raid on the Kandahar detention facility in Kandahar, Afghanistan by Taliban insurgents on June 13, 2008. One of the largest attacks by Afghan insurgents, the raid freed 400-1000 prisoners. As of 2008, prison...
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- Jun 13, 2008 — Jun 13, 2008
Battle of Arghandab
The Battle of Arghandab (code-named Operation IBRAT by the insurgents) began on June 18, 2008, when NATO-led forces attacked Taliban militants in response to Taliban attacks in Arghandab District and Kandahar. The battle in Arghandab marked the...
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- 1 days (Jun 18, 2008 — Jun 19, 2008)
Operation Jacana
Operation Jacana is the codename for a series of operations carried out by coalition forces in Afghanistan. The operations were carried out most notably by 45 Commando Royal Marines. U.S. forces, Australian SAS and Norwegian FSK also participated....
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- 3 months (Apr 2002 — Jul 2002)
Battle of Wanat
The Battle of Wanat occurred on July 13, 2008 when approximately 200 Taliban guerrillas attacked a NATO position near the village of Wanat, Waygal district in the far eastern province of Nuristan, Afghanistan. The position was being defended...
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- Jul 13, 2008 — Jul 13, 2008
Uzbin valley ambush
The Uzbin Valley ambush occurred when ISAF troops were ambushed by Afghan militants in eastern Afghanistan on 19 August 2008. It took place outside the village of Sper Kunday, of the Surobi District of Kabul province and resulted in heavy casualties...
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- Aug 19, 2008 — Aug 19, 2008
Operation Eagle's Summit
Operation Eagle's Summit (Oqab Tsuka in Pashto) was a military operation conducted by ISAF and Afghan National Army troops, with the objective of transporting a 220-tonne turbine to the Kajaki dam in Helmand province through territory controlled by...
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- 7 days (Aug 27, 2008 — Sep 3, 2008)
Angoor Ada raid
The Angoor Ada raid (Urdu:صفف ﮑﹻﺨﺄ) was a covert raid conducted by U.S. Army Special Forces against Taliban fighters on September 3, 2008, within the border town of Angoor Ada in South Waziristan. It was the first time U.S. troops fought a ground...
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- Sep 3, 2008 — Sep 3, 2008
Operation Kamin
Operation Kamin ("Ambush" in Persian) was an offensive launched by Afghan insurgents in May 2007 which aimed to kill American-backed government forces and foreign troops in Kandahar.
The operation opened with an ambush on an Afghan National Police...
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- May 2007 —
Operation Red Dagger
Operation Sond Chara (Red Dagger in Pashto) was an 18-day-long campaign with its aims and objectives centred around four Taliban strongholds near the town of Nad-e-Ali in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. The operation was named after the commando...
Battle of Shewan
The Battle of Shewan was a military engagement between Coalition forces and Taliban insurgents that took place on August 8, 2008, near the village of Shewan in Farah Province, Afghanistan.
On the 8th of August 2008, two squads of U.S. Marines from...
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- Aug 8, 2008 —
Operation Shahi Tandar
Operation Shahi Tandar, also called Operation Atal, was a series of operations by Coalition troops from the British 42 Commando Royal Marines, Royal Canadian Regiment, 2-2 United States Infantry, and the Afghan national military in central Helmand...
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- Jan 7, 2009 —
Operation Nasrat
A military campaign by the Afghan insurgency in September 2007, Operation Nasrat (English: Triumph) was focused on targeting American and Coalition forces operating in Helmand and Kabul Province.
The start of the campaign was timed to coincide with...
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- Sep 2007 —
Balamorghab ambush
The Balamorghab ambush occurred on November 27, 2008, when a force of Afghan security forces was attacked by Taliban insurgents. The ambush took place near Balamorghab in Badghis Province, in Northwestern Afghanistan, and resulted in heavy...
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- Nov 27, 2008 —
Operation Diesel
Operation Diesel was a raid by 700 British troops from the Royal Marines 45 Commando, 42 Commando, and the 3 Commando Brigade's Reconnaissance Force, as well as armoured infantry and close reconnaissance from 1st Battalion Princess of Wales's Royal...
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- Feb 7, 2009 —
Battle of Alasay
The Battle of Alasay, codenamed Operation Dinner Out was a military operation carried out by French troops of the Chasseurs Alpins's 27e Battalion and the Afghan National Army (ANA) 1st Kandak (battalion). Marine Embedded Training Team 6-4 as well...
German combat operations in Afghanistan in early 2009
Whilst Northern Afghanistan is relatively peaceful compared to all out war zones in the South of the country, the security situation in Kunduz province has deteriorated and prompted the German-led Regional Command North to launch a series of...
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- 2009 —
Operation Rhino
Operation Rhino was a raid launched by the 3rd battalion of the 75th Ranger Regiment on several targets in and around Kandahar, Afghanistan during the early stages of the War in Afghanistan. On the night of October 19th, a group of around 200...
Fall of Kandahar
The Fall of Kandahar took place in 2001 during the War in Afghanistan. After the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif, Kabul and Herat, Kandahar was the last major city under Taliban control. Kandahar was where the Taliban movement had originated and where its...
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- 2001 —
Battle of Tarin Kowt
The Battle of Tarin Kowt took place in 2001 during the War in Afghanistan. In Early November, Hamid Karzai had entered Taliban-controlled eastern Afghanistan with a small force of guerrillas, accompanied by American special forces soldiers. In...
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- 2001 —
Fall of Kabul
The Fall of Kabul took place in 2001 during the Afghanistan War. Northern Alliance forces began their attack on the city on November 13th, and made swift progress against Taliban forces that were heavily weakened by American and British air strikes....
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- 2001 —
Operation Crescent Wind
Operation Crescent Wind was the codename for the American and British air campaign over Afghanistan in October and November 2001. The bombing campaign was aided by special forces troops on the ground to provide targeting information for airstrikes....
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- 2001 —
Siege of Kunduz
The Siege of Kunduz took place in 2001 during the War in Afghanistan. After the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif on November 9th, the focus of the Northern Alliance advance shifted towards the city of Kunduz, which was the last remaining Taliban stronghold in...
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- 2001 —
Battle of Garmsir
The Battle of Garmsir (also Garmser) was a battle between U.S. Marines and other ISAF coalition forces, and Taliban insurgents in Garmsir, southern Afghanistan. It was part of the ongoing Helmand Province campaign.
By the end of December 2007, the...
Battle of Now Zad
The Battle of Now Zad is an ongoing battle since 2006 between ISAF coalition forces and Taliban insurgents in Nawzad at the center of Nawzad district, in the northern half of Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan.
It is considered to be an example...
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- 2006 —
Operation Strike of the Sword
Operation Strike of the Sword or Operation Khanjar is an ongoing US-led offensive in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. About 4,000 Marines from the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade as well as 650 Afghan troops are involved, supported by NATO...
Operation Panther's Claw
Operation Panchai Palang, or Panther's Claw, was a British-led military operation of the War in Afghanistan in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan. It aimed to secure a various canal and river crossings to establish a permanent International...
Operation Oqab
Operation Oqab (Eagle in English, Adler in German) was a military operation conducted by ISAF and Afghan National Army troops, with the objective to force the Taliban out of the Kunduz Province.
Since April 2009, the German forces in north...
Battle of Dahaneh
The Battle of Dahaneh was a battle in the town of Dahaneh and its surrounding areas as part of the War in Afghanistan. It began when U.S. and Afghan troops launched an Operation to take the town of Dahaneh, in the Helmand Province of Southern...
Battle of Kamdesh
The Battle of Kamdesh occurred on October 3, 2009, when a force of 300 Taliban assaulted two American outposts in the Kamdesh District of Nuristan province in eastern Afghanistan. The attack was the bloodiest battle for U.S. forces since the Battle...
