Afghanistan War, international conflict beginning in 2001 that was triggered by the September 11 attacks. U.S. forces quickly toppled the Taliban (the faction that ruled Afghanistan and provided sanctuary for al-Qaeda) in the first months of the war, onl
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U.S. President Barack Obama met with his national security team and the outgoing Commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, on June 15 to discuss the July deadline for the initial drawdown of surge forces in Afghanistan. ...
The War is fought mainly in Enland (Wool). (CTD, IotM, 12, 133) Unseelie Prince Carnok of Lyonesse leads Saxons against the Seelie, and gains possession of the Black Tor by chance. He and Unseelie Morgan le Fay enchant and enslave many into his service. Morgana betrays Prince Rys ...
Major Armed Conflicts: The Cold War, the Soviet war in Afghanistan, and the escalation of tensions with China. United Kingdom: Leader: Harold Wilson Head of State Department: Michael Stewart (Foreign Secretary) Head of Security Service: Roger Hollis (MI5) Head of Intelligence Service: Richard...
Fig. 1: The map shows the places mentioned in this book. It is based on the current position ofprovincial borders. Some of the borders have been altered since 1964 but in those cases myinterlocutors usually referred to the current province.Map of Afghanistan and TimelineBadakhshanKunduzBaghlan...
Like the Delhi Sultanate before him, the conqueror Babur, a descendent of Timur, was able to invade India from the northwest. Previously, Babur had conquered the city of Kabul. From his base in Afghanistan, Babur marched against the declining Delhi Sultanate. While Delhi used war elephants, Ba...
The decade of the 1840s was marked by the Mexican War, the discovery of gold in California, and the launch of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition.
military reports about the Afghanistan war. October, 2010 - WikiLeaks releases 400,000 classified military files chronicling the Iraq war. The next month, it releases thousands of U.S. diplomatic cables, including candid views of foreign leaders and blunt assessments of security threats. MO...
• December 12: Soviet-Czech alliance agreed; Czechs agree to co-operate with the USSR after the war. 1943 • February 1: Siege of Stalingrad by Germany ends with Soviet victory. • April 27: USSR breaks off relations with Polish government-in-exile over arguments about the Katyn Massac...