Timeline: October 7, 2001 - Operation Enduring Freedom begins. President George W. Bush announces that US and British forces have begun airstrikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets in Afghanistan.

in addition to the armed forces. Since the fall of the Taliban government in late 2001, U.S. and coalition military operations under Operation Enduring Freedom have largely consisted of small- and ...

US and coalition forces were battling through the 4th year of Operation Enduring Freedom. While few envisioned ... up comprising of members of the Taliban, the Al-Qaeda terrorist network and ...

it is uncomfortably apparent thatOperation Enduring Freedom has turned into Operation Enduring Taliban inAfghanistan. After having re-established its presence, despite the repeated attacks of ...

Based on hundreds of oral interviews and unclassified documents, this study offers a comprehensive chronological narrative of the first four years of Operation Enduring Freedom. A Different Kind ...

Militants fighting for Taliban, al Qaeda linked to Olympics ... percentage of the overall enemy population early in Operation Enduring Freedom," recalled an active-duty senior Special Operations ...

After the Daniel H. Petithory Award was given to a Marine from California injured during the withdrawal from Afghanistan, ...

On my orders, the United States military has begun strikes against al-Qa'ida terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban ... today's military operation is Enduring Freedom.

After 13 years of combat operations, Operation Enduring Freedom drew to a close today ... and the Afghan people and their security forces continue to make tremendous sacrifices in defense of ...

Twenty years ago today – October 7, 2001 – the United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom, a military invasion of Afghanistan ... Afghanistan lies in ruin, the Taliban is back in power and tens ...

In an extraordinary development, a Taliban delegation ... When U.S. forces first invaded Afghanistan back in 2001, the name of that mission was "Operation Enduring Freedom." Eighteen years later ...

As Taliban fighters encircled Afghanistan ... by the Pentagon’s lead inspector general for Operation Enduring Sentinel and Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, the DoD estimates that roughly ...