Violence eventually escalated to a point where large parts of Afghanistan had been retaken by the Taliban by 2007. Insurgents from the Taliban and other groups waged asymmetric warfare with guerrilla raids and ambushes in the countryside, suicide attacks against urban targets, turncoat killings against coalition forces and reprisals against perceived collaborators. The Taliban reorganized under Mullah Omar and in 2003 launched an insurgency against the new Afghan government. A rebuilding effort across the country was also made following the expulsion of the Taliban.
At the Bonn Conference, new Afghan interim authorities (mostly from the Northern Alliance) elected Hamid Karzai to head the Afghan Interim Administration. Despite failing to find bin Laden after his escape to Pakistan, the US and a coalition of over 40 countries (including all NATO members) remained in the country and formed a UN sanctioned security mission called International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to consolidate a new democratic authority in the country and prevent the return of the Taliban and al-Qaeda to power. The Taliban's refusal to do so led to the invasion of the country the Taliban and their al-Qaeda allies were mostly defeated and expelled from major population centers by US-led forces and the Northern Alliance. Bush demanded that the Taliban, then- de facto ruling Afghanistan, extradite Osama bin Laden, the mastermind of the attacks and who was, until then, freely operating within the country. It was the longest war in United States history, surpassing the Vietnam War (1955–1975) by approximately five months.įollowing the September 11 attacks in 2001, then- US President George W. The war ended with the Taliban regaining power after a 19 years and 10 months-long insurgency against allied NATO and Afghan Armed Forces. It began when the United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban-ruled Islamic Emirate. The War in Afghanistan was a conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021 in Afghanistan. High Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: 3,000–3,500 Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (since 2015).China (alleged by the U.S., but denied by China).Qatar (alleged by Saudi Arabia, but denied by Qatar).Saudi Arabia (alleged, but denied by Saudi Arabia).Pakistan (alleged, but denied by Pakistan).Russia (alleged, but denied by Russia).Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (until 2015).
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