Afghanistan War

Afghanistan War. What started this War? On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda attacked America with the deadliest attack ever on US soil. In New York City, 2,750 people lost their lives when two commercial airline planes were flown into the World Trade Center buildings. Another 184 people lost their lives as a plane crashed into three sides of the Pentagon. As a fourth plane was still in the air, a group of patriot passengers took down the terrorist; 40 or more lost their lives when the plane crashed., What did we do? President G.W. Bush, vowing "to win the war on terrorism", demanded the Taliban in Afghanistan turn over Osama bin Laden and shut down all terrorist camps. When they refused, we deployed troops to the Middle East, created the Office of Homeland Security, and signed into law the anti-terrorist bill called the Patriot Act. By October, we began bombing al-Qaeda camps and Taliban military forces in Afghanistan. The goal was to take down the Taliban regime that had sheltered bin Laden and al-Qaeda. 2020, President Trump signed an "agreement for bringing peace " with the Taliban., The United States supported the Northern Alliance, a coalition of Afgan troops that had been fighting the Taliban for years. In May 2011, Bin Laden's location was determined, and President Obama ordered U.S. troops to attack. Bin Laden was killed after a brief fight, and a DNA test confirmed his identity., What was the Result? Operation Enduring Freedom, the war in Afghanistan, had been the longest-running conflict in United States history. Over 2,000 US military have lost their lives.