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War on Terror |
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![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/be/War_on_Terror_montage1.png/300px-War_on_Terror_montage1.png) Clockwise frae tap left: Eftermath o the 11 September attacks; American infantry in Afghanistan; an American sauldier an Afghan interpreter in Zabul Province, Afghanistan; explosion o an Iraqi car bomb in Baghdad |
Date | 7 October 2001 – 30 August 2021 (22 years, 7 months, 2 weeks and 3 days) Origins date tae the 1980s. |
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Location | Global (esp. Middle East, pairts o Asia an Africae, Europe an North Americae) |
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Status |
War in Afghanistan (2001–present):
- Faw o the Taliban govrenment in Afghanistan
- Destruction o al-Qaeda camps
- Taliban insurgency
- War in North-Wast Pakistan
- Killin o Osama bin Laden
Al-Qaeda insurgency in Yemen
- Ongangin insurgency
- Drone strikes bein conductit bi CIA
Iraq War (2003–2011):
- Faw o the Ba'ath Pairty govrenment in Iraq
- Execution o Saddam Hussein
- Free elections
- Ongangin insurgency
War in North-Wast Pakistan (2004–present):
- Ongangin insurgency
- Lairge pairt o FATA unner Taliban control
- Shiftin public support for the Pakistani govrenment
- Drone strikes bein conductit bi CIA
Ither:
- OEF Horn o Africae
- OEF Philippines
- OEF Trans Sahara
- OEF Caribbean an Central Americae
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Belligerents |
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NATO participants:
NATO
Non-NATO parteecipants:
Internaitional missions *:
NATO—ISAF
- Operation Enduring Freedom Allies
Northern Alliance
Multi-Naitional Force – Iraq
Combined Jynt Task Force – Horn o Africae
(* note: maist contreibutin naitions are includit in the internaitional operations) |
Main targets:
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Commanders an leaders |
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Gen. Tommy Franks (CENTCOM commander 2001–2003),
Gen. John Abizaid (CENTCOM commander 2003–2007),
Adm. William J. Fallon (CENTCOM commander 2007–2008),
Gen. David Petraeus (CENTCOM commander 2008–2010, ISAF commander 2010–2011), Gen. James Mattis (CENTCOM commander 2010–present), Gen. Dan K. McNeill (ISAF commander 2007–2008), Gen. David D. McKiernan (ISAF commander 2008–2009), Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal (ISAF commander 2009–2010)
Gen. John R. Allen (ISAF commander 2011–present) Gen. Pervez Musharraf (umwhile airmy chief) Lt Gen. Ahmad Shuja Pasha (umwhile DG ISI) Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani (current airmy chief) Lt Gen. Zaheerul Islam (DG ISI) |
Mohammed Omar Baitullah Mehsud † Mullah Dadullah † Osama bin Laden † Ayman al-Zawahiri Hakimullah Mehsud †
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi † Abu Ayyub al-Masri † Anwar al-Awlaki †
Moktar Ali Zubeyr
Nasir al-Wuhayshi
Abu Musab Abdel Wadoud |
The War on Terror, cried the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) an aa, is a term commonly applee'd tae an internaitional militar campaign which stairtit as a result o the 11 September 2001 terrorist attacks on the Unitit States. This resultit in an internaitional militar campaign tae eliminate al-Qaeda an ither militant organisations. The Unitit Kinrick an mony ither NATO an non-NATO naitions sic as Pakistan pairticipate in the conflict.[1]