Timeline of the War on Terror
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The War on Terror is the campaign launched by the United States of America in response to the September 11 attacks against organizations designated with terrorism.[1][2] The campaign, whose stated objective was eliminating international terrorism, began in 2001.[3] The following is a timeline of events linked to the War on Terror.
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2001
- September 11 – The September 11, 2001 attacks in New York City, Washington D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, United States, killed 2,993 people.[4][5]
- September 14 – Operation Noble Eagle begins, the United States and Canadian military launch operations related to homeland security in response to the September 11 attacks[6]
- September 18 and October 9 – 2001 anthrax attacks kill 5 and infect 17 others by anthrax spores in New York City, New York, Boca Raton, Florida, and Washington D.C. in the United States.[7]
- September 20 – The phrase "War on Terror" was first officially used.[8]
- October 7 – The War in Afghanistan begins.[9]
- October 9 – Operation Eagle Assist begins, 13 NATO nations execute operational sorties over the skies of the United States in NATO AWACS aircraft.
- October 16 – Operation Active Endeavour officially begins.[10][11][12]
- October 26 – Congress pass the Patriot Act this allows search and electronic surveillance powers of federal agencies while investigating persons suspected of terrorism.
- December 18 – Operation Enduring Freedom – Kyrgyzstan begins[13]
2002
- A team of Special Air Service and Delta Force was sent into Indian-administered Kashmir to hunt for Osama bin Laden after reports that he was being sheltered by the Kashmiri militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen.[14]
- January 15 – Operation Enduring Freedom – Philippines begins as part of Operation Enduring Freedom in the Southern Philippines.[15]
- February 27 – The Georgia Train and Equip Program begins.[16][17][18]
- April 11 – The Ghriba synagogue bombing in Tunisia kills 19 and injures over 30 people, signaling the beginning of the Insurgency in the Maghreb
- May 16 – Operation Eagle Assist ends.
- October 7 – Operation Enduring Freedom - Horn of Africa begins.[19]
- October 12 – The Bali bombings in Indonesia kill 202 and injure 209 people.
- November 26 – The Central Intelligence Agency begins a series of ongoing Predator drone strikes on Al-Qaeda in Yemen[20]
- November 28 – The Mombasa attacks kill 13 and injuring 80 people.
2003
- January 3 to April 12 – Anti-war groups across the world organized public protests against war with Iraq. About 36 million people across the globe took part in almost 3,000 protests.[21]
- February 5 – Colin Powell addressed a plenary session of the United Nations Security Council, stating categorically that Saddam Hussein was working to obtain key components to produce nuclear weapons.
- March 20 – The Iraq War begins. President George W. Bush refers to it as "the central front in the War on Terror".[22][23]
- May 16 – The Casablanca bombings kill 45 and injure over 100 people.
- November 15 and 20 – The Istanbul bombings kill 57 and injure around 700 people.
- December 13 – Saddam Hussein is found and captured by U.S. forces in Ad-Dawr, Iraq.[24]
2004
- March 11 – The Madrid train bombings kill 191 and injure over 2,000 people.
- March 16 – War in North-West Pakistan begins.
- April 24 – The Georgia Train and Equip Program ends
- May 29 – The Khobar massacre kills 22 and injures 25 people.
- June 18 – The United States government, led by the Central Intelligence Agency's Special Activities Division, begins a series of ongoing attacks on targets in northwest Pakistan using drones (unmanned aerial vehicles). These attacks sought to defeat the Taliban and Al-Qaeda militants who were thought to have found a safe haven in Pakistan.[25]
2005
- January 1 – The Georgia Sustainment and Stability Operations Program begins.
- July 7 – The London bombings kill 52 people and injure 700 more.[26][27][28]
2006
- June 4 – Islamist insurgents begin taking over large parts of Somalia.
- July 20 – The War in Somalia (2006–09) begins when U.S. backed Ethiopian troops invaded Somalia to support the Somali Transitional Government against Islamist insurgents
- November 5 – Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging, he is hanged on December 30 at Camp Justice in Baghdad.
2007
- February 6 – Operation Enduring Freedom – Trans Sahara begins.[29]
- February 11 – The Algiers bombings kill 33 and injure over 130 people.
2008
- Operation Enduring Freedom – Caribbean and Central America begins[30]
- June 2 – The Danish embassy bombing in Islamabad killed between 6-8 people and injured over 20.
2009
- January 30 – The War in Somalia (2006–09) ends after Ethiopian forces withdraw from Somalia.
- January/February – The War in Somalia (2009–present) begins.
- July 26 – The Boko Haram insurgency begins.
- August 6 – Newly elected Obama administration has stopped using the phrase "war on terror";[31] John Brennan announces that the U.S. is "at war with al Qaeda", not involved in a "global war on terror"[32]
- November 5 – The Fort Hood shooting kills 13 and injures 33.
2011
- February 23 – Islamist militants begin an insurgency in the Sinai Peninsula.
- May 2 – Osama bin Laden is killed in a raid by United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group on his residence in Abbottabad, Pakistan.[33]
- December 18 – U.S. military forces withdraw from Iraq, ending the Iraq War.
2012
- January 16 – The Northern Mali conflict begins when Islamic insurgents (affiliated with Al Qaeda) launch an offensive against the Mali government.
- September 11 – The Benghazi attack by Islamist militants kills 4 and injures 7
2013
- January 13 – The French Military, supported by several African nations intervene in the Northern Mali Conflict.
- January 16 – The In Amenas hostage crisis in Algeria begins, ending on January 19, which kills 40 hostages.
- May 11 – The Reyhanlı bombings in Turkey kill 52 and injure 140.
- September 21 to 24 – The Westgate shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya kills 67 and injures 175.
2014
- June 3 – Operation Enduring Freedom – Kyrgyzstan ends.
- June 13 – International campaign against ISIL begins with the American-led intervention in Iraq against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Al-Qaeda.
- September 22 – The international campaign against ISIS continues with the American-led intervention in Syria
- December 16 - The Peshawar School Attack in Pakistan
- December 28 – NATO officially ended combat operations in Afghanistan [34] ending the War in Afghanistan (2001–2014)
2015
- January 1 – The War in Afghanistan (2015–present) begins.
- January 7 – The Charlie Hebdo shooting kills 12 and injures 11 people.
- January 9 – The Porte de Vincennes hostage crisis kills 4 and injures 9 people.
- January 27 – The Corinthia Hotel attack kills 10 people.
- February 14 – The Copenhagen shootings kills 3 and injures 5.
- February 16 – In support of the International campaign against ISIS the Egyptian military attack ISIS positions in Libya in amidst the Libyan Civil War.
- February 20 – The Northern Mali conflict ends.
- March 18 – The Bardo National Museum attack kills 23 and injures about 50.
- March 19 – The Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen escalates into the Yemeni Civil War.
- March 20 – The Sana'a mosque bombings in Yemen kill 142 and injure 351.
- May 3 – The Curtis Culwell Center attack injures 1.
- June 26 – The 2015 Ramadan attacks kill over 403 and injure over 336.
- October – U.S. military personnel were deployed to Cameroon to support African forces in a non-combat role in their fight against ISIS.
- November 12 - The 2015 Beirut bombings kill 43 and injure at least 240
- November 13/14 – The November 2015 Paris attacks kill at least 139 and injure 352 people.
- November 20 – The Bamako hotel attack in Mali kills at least 27 and injures 2.
Notes
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- ↑ Daniel P. Bolger, Why we lost: A general's inside account of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, 2014, xiii
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- ↑ The CIA's Silent War in Pakistan, TIME, June 1, 2009
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- ↑ Foon Rhee, "Cheney blasts Obama on Christmas Day plane scare", Boston Globe, 30 December 2009.
- ↑ Toby Harnden, "Barack Obama adviser rejects 'global war on terror'", Telegraph, 7 August 2009.
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