Fox News

From my dad's death in Afghanistan 20 years ago to Taliban retaking the country. How did we get here?

On Nov. 25, 2001, I was an infant when a group of Marines came to my family’s house in Manassas, Virginia, to inform us that my father, Johnny "Mike" Spann, wasn’t coming home. He had been killed in ...
Los Angeles Times

What it felt like when the Afghanistan war started in 2001

It’s safe to say most Americans who were alive on Sept. 11, 2001, remember precisely what they were doing the moment they heard New York and the Pentagon had been attacked. Less certain is whether ...
The Armchair Historian on MSN

How the Afghanistan war began: 2001 invasion explained

We animated the key moments of the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan, breaking down how Operation Enduring Freedom ...
Yahoo

A timeline: America's war in Afghanistan since Sept. 11, 2001

U.S. soldiers take part in an operation in support of Afghan soldiers in Wardak province, Afghanistan, in 2013. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times) No American war lasted longer than the U.S.
The Patriot Ledger

Afghanistan's arc from 9/11 to today: Once hopeful, now sad

ISLAMABAD – It was Nov. 13, 2001. The sun had just begun to rise over the Hindu Kush Mountains when the Taliban disappeared from Kabul, the battered capital of Afghanistan. The bodies of foreign Arabs ...
WTOL

No, President Biden was not against the war in Afghanistan from the very beginning

Earlier this year, President Joe Biden withdrew American troops from Afghanistan, marking the end of a nearly 20-year occupation. In an interview that aired Dec. 12 on “CBS Sunday Morning,” the ...
Rferl.org

‘Afghanistan Has Changed’: Post-2001 Generation On Prospects Of Peace With Taliban

Talk of peace in Afghanistan is ramping up, with the United States and the Taliban negotiating and Kabul preparing to host hundreds of ethnic, religious, and tribal leaders to settle on a road map for ...
Business Insider

The Afghanistan war has lasted for 18 years. Here's 1 image from every year of America's longest war.

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CNN

Opinion: Afghanistan’s collapse was not pre-ordained. It was willful abandonment

Editor’s Note: Retired Lt. Col. Jason Amerine is a 1993 graduate of the United States Military Academy with a bachelor of science in Arabic. He commanded a Special ...
Business Insider

The only member of Congress to reject invading Afghanistan in 2001 said she almost wishes she had been wrong about her lone vote

Rep. Barbara Lee had only been in Congress three years when the September 11, 2001, attacks changed the world forever. In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, Lee delivered a stirring speech on the ...
The American Conservative

U.S. Cuts Troops in Afghanistan to 2,500, Lowest Since 2001

The U.S. has reduced the number of U.S troops in Afghanistan to 2,500, the Pentagon announced Friday. President Donald Trump had promised in October to bring all remaining U.S. forces in Afghanistan ...
Stars and Stripes

From the archives, 2001: Road to Kabul is a rocky one

This article first appeared in the Stars and Stripes Pacific edition, Nov. 21, 2001. It is republished unedited in its original form. KABUL, Afghanistan — The road to Kabul from northern Afghanistan ...