We animated the key moments of the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, breaking down how Operation Enduring Freedom unfolded from the first airstrikes to the rapid collapse of the Taliban regime.

U.S. forces who took part in the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan reflected on the invasion's many successes, but lamented the way America's longest conflict came to an end.

Afghanistan remains on a knife-edge. Looming famine, widespread malnutrition, and the forced repatriation of refugees are signs not of a nation in crisis — but one already collapsed, hollowed out to ...

The UN Security Council decides whether to renew the mandate of the United Nations Assistance Mission to Afghanistan; on its twentieth anniversary, Americans and Iraqis take stock of the U.S ...

Pakistan yesterday reiterated that the presence of US advance weapons in Afghanistan, left behind in the aftermath of the withdrawal of its troops in August 2021, had been an issue of profound ...

In this episode of Horns of a Dilemma, Aaron O’Connell, associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin and director of research for the Clements Center for National Security, ...

(THE CONVERSATION) After 12 days of trading deadly airstrikes, Israel and Iran confirmed on June 24, 2025, that a ceasefire is in effect, one day after President Donald Trump proclaimed the countries ...

On October 7, 2001, as the United States began its military campaign in Afghanistan, then-President George W. Bush addressed the nation. He declared, “The oppressed people of Afghanistan will ...

Both countries retain painful memories of overreach in Afghanistan, as the White House and Kremlin pursue competing visions in Ukraine.

The chaos of the U.S. exit from Afghanistan has become politicized. But the blame stretches back decades, through both Republican and Democratic administrations.

The American withdrawal from Afghanistan was completed two years ago, when the last C-17 transport plane departed Kabul airport just before midnight on Aug. 30, 2021. “There’s a lot of ...

Since Russia began its full-fledged invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the United States and its allies have provided historic levels of assistance to Kyiv, implemented the most extensive network of ...