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 nearly 20-year-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 of Afghanistan. The War in Afghanistan was a conflict that took place from 2001 to 2021 in the South-Central Asian country of Afghanistan. High Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan: 3,000–3,500 Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (since 2015).China (alleged by the US, but denied by China).Qatar (alleged by Saudi Arabia, but denied by Qatar).
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Pakistan (alleged, but denied by Pakistan).
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