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9/15/2001
Bush braces Americans for sacrifice, tells military to `get ready' for war
WASHINGTON – President Bush ordered U.S. troops to get ready for war and braced Americans for a long, difficult assault against terrorists to avenge the deadliest attack on the nation. "Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction," he declared Saturday.
 
9/18/2001
Wanted: Dead or alive
WASHINGTON – President Bush declared Osama bin Laden "wanted – dead or alive" Monday as his administration hurried to mobilize the military and build a new worldwide coalition to fight terrorism.
 
9/19/2001
Pentagon orders warplanes to Gulf
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Wednesday ordered combat aircraft to begin moving to bases in the Persian Gulf area, the first concrete sign of preparations to retaliate for last week's terrorist attacks, a senior defense official said.
 
9/28/2001
Official: U.S. forces in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON - President Bush said Friday the United States is "in hot pursuit'' of terrorists behind the Sept. 11 attacks. A top Bush administration official said U.S. forces have conducted scouting missions in Afghanistan, where suspected terrorists are hiding.
 
10/07/2001
Bush orders attacks on terrorists, Taliban
WASHINGTON — American and British forces unleashed missile attacks Sunday against military targets and Osama bin Laden's training camps inside Afghanistan, broadening the war against terrorists blamed for the attacks that murdered thousands in New York and Washington.
 
Explosions, lights out in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan — Missiles and warplanes streaked through the Afghan night and rocked at least three cities in a U.S.-British attack on Osama bin Laden and his Taliban backers Sunday. Bin Laden and the Taliban's leader both survived, Taliban officials said.
 
10/08/2001
Northern alliance moves equipment, men southward to Afghan capital
PANJSHIR VALLEY, Afghanistan – Opposition forces in northern Afghanistan closed roads to most civilian traffic on Monday and began moving Soviet-made Scud missiles south toward the capital, apparently preparing for an offensive on Kabul to accompany U.S.-led airstrikes.
 
10/10/2001
U.S. soldier injured in truck incident; first U.S. casualty of Afghanistan operation
An Army soldier got trapped between two trucks and was critically injured Wednesday, becoming the first American casualty of Operation Enduring Freedom, the campaign against terrorism, officials said.
 
10/11/2001
Daylight raid spreads panic in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan – The first daylight raid on the Afghan capital in the 5-day-old U.S.-led air campaign sent shoppers scattering in panic Thursday, jumping on donkey carts and bicycles to flee heavy explosions. In the Taliban stronghold of Kandahar, a hit on a munitions dump set off a series of deafening blasts – and an exodus of civilians toward the Pakistani border.
 
10/14/2001
Fresh graves, fresh ruin in village Taliban claims was hit by U.S. strike
KARAM, Afghanistan – Waving shovels and sticks, enraged villagers surged toward foreign journalists brought here Sunday by Afghanistan's ruling Taliban militia to see what officials say was the devastation of a U.S. air attack.
 
U.S. launches second week of air attacks, police battle Taliban sympathizers in Pakistan
KABUL, Afghanistan – U.S. jets pounded targets in Kabul and other cities Sunday as the U.S. air campaign to force the handover of Osama bin Laden entered a second week. The White House rebuffed yet another offer by Afghanistan's Taliban rulers to negotiate on the terror suspect's fate.
 
10/16/2001
U.S. gunship rakes Taliban camp
KABUL, Afghanistan — A U.S. special-forces gunship swung into action Tuesday, raking a Taliban stronghold in Afghanistan with heavy machine gun and cannon fire. Fierce daylight bombing at Kabul set an International Red Cross warehouse afire.
 
10/20/2001
U.S. troops complete ground assault
WASHINGTON - About 100 U.S. commandos carried out a secretive ground assault in the Taliban stronghold of southern Afghanistan, opening a new phase of the war on terrorism after nearly two weeks of punishing airstrikes, U.S. officials said Friday night.
 
10/23/2001
Warplanes smash terrorist base
BAGRAM, Afghanistan — U.S. jets Tuesday attacked a stronghold of Osama bin Laden's fighters north of Kabul and set fire to critical Taliban oil supplies in the southern city of Kandahar.
 
10/26/2001
Taliban execute opposition leader
KABUL, Afghanistan — In a grim warning to opponents, the Taliban on Friday captured and executed a former guerrilla leader accused of spying for the United States and Britain. U.S. jets struck a Red Cross compound in the Afghan capital for a second time this month.
 
10/27/2001
Pentagon admits accidental bombings
WASHINGTON — U.S. warplanes mistakenly bombed Red Cross warehouses and a nearby residential area in Kabul for the second time in a month, the Pentagon acknowledged Friday.
 
10/30/2001
U.S. drops giant bomb on Taliban front lines as U.S.-northern alliance coordination increases
CHARIKAR, Afghanistan – An American bomb blasted huge plumes of smoke 1,000 feet into the skies over Afghanistan's front lines Tuesday in an unusually mighty airstrike. The Pentagon said U.S. forces were with the northern opposition and directing fire against the Taliban.
 
11/02/2001
B-52s pound Taliban headquarters in heavy attack on Kabul front
RABAT, Afghanistan – American B-52 bombers pummeled Taliban front lines Friday with dozens of bombs north of the capital, drawing cheers from opposition fighters and futile artillery fire from Taliban gunners.
 
11/05/2001
U.S. jets target Afghan cities, helicopters reportedly attack near Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan – B-52s hammered away at Taliban positions outside a town near the northern border with Tajikistan and along the Kabul front Monday in hopes of helping the opposition gain ground before winter.
 
11/08/2001
Heavy Mazar-e-Sharif fighting reported
JABAL SARAJ, Afghanistan — Afghan opposition forces said Thursday they were advancing steadily toward the key northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif with the help of round-the-clock U.S. bombing. The ruling Taliban, however, said they pushed back several opposition attacks.
 
11/10/2001
Taliban admits losing key city
JABAL SARAJ, Afghanistan — The Taliban acknowledged early Saturday that it lost the city of Mazar-e-Sharif to opposition forces in northern Afghanistan. American officials confirmed opposition forces were in the city and said fighters of the ruling Islamic militia were fleeing.
 
11/11/2001
Afghan opposition claims Taliban in full retreat in much of north
JABAL SARAJ, Afghanistan – Opposition forces claimed to have the Taliban on the run across much of northern Afghanistan on Sunday, as the ruling Islamic militia abandoned stronghold after stronghold in a withdrawal south toward the capital, Kabul.
 
11/13/2001
Taliban military flees Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan — Capping their lightning-quick victories in the north, Afghan opposition fighters rolled into Kabul on Tuesday after Taliban troops slipped away under cover of darkness, abandoning the capital without a fight.
 
Afghans savor Taliban fall in Kabul
KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghans brought their radios out of hiding and played music in the streets, savoring the end of five years of harsh Taliban rule as the northern alliance marched triumphantly into Afghanistan's capital Tuesday. Diplomats sought U.N. help in fashioning a government for the shattered country.
 
11/14/2001
U.S. special forces now in Kabul
WASHINGTON — U.S. special forces are in southern Afghanistan as the campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaida terrorists moves into a much more difficult phase, top Pentagon officials said.
 
11/15/2001
U.S. jets pound targets in Kunduz
KABUL, Afghanistan — U.S. warplanes zeroed in Thursday on one of the last pockets of Taliban resistance in northern Afghanistan, where Taliban fighters and followers of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network were apparently set to make a stand near the town of Kunduz.
 
Anti-Taliban forces make new gains
KABUL, Afghanistan — The rout of the Taliban accelerated Wednesday with the Islamic militia losing control of Jalalabad in the east, once-loyal Pashtun tribesmen joining in the revolt in the south and many of their fighters fleeing into the mountains to evade U.S. airstrikes.
 
11/16/2001
Top bin Laden deputy said killed; Taliban leader reported ready to abandon Kandahar
KABUL, Afghanistan – In twin blows to the Taliban and al-Qaida, the regime's supreme leader was reported ready Friday to abandon his home base of Kandahar, and U.S. officials disclosed that Osama bin Laden's military chief may have been killed.
 
11/18/2001
Taliban in north offer to surrender
BANGI, Afghanistan — Defenders of the last Taliban stronghold in northern Afghanistan made a conditional offer of surrender Sunday after a day of devastating U.S. airstrikes, the opposition northern alliance said.
 
11/20/2001
Bodies of four journalists slain in Afghanistan recovered, identified
JALALABAD, Afghanistan – Anti-Taliban militiamen recovered the bodies Tuesday of four international journalists who were ambushed in a narrow mountain pass as they headed for the Afghan capital.
 
11/25/2001
Kunduz falls to alliance, commander claims
BANGI, Afghanistan — Northern alliance troops captured the Taliban's last northern stronghold, Kunduz, after a two-week siege, a commander said Sunday. Hundreds of captured foreign fighters were said to have died in a prison riot quashed by the alliance and U.S. airstrikes.
 
11/26/2001
Marines land near Kandahar; alliance retribution in fallen city; prison uprising rages
KABUL, Afghanistan – Quickening the hunt for Osama bin Laden and top Taliban leaders, U.S. Marines landed Monday outside the southern city of Kandahar. The Taliban reportedly vowed anew to fight to the death to defend their last stronghold.
 
Battle rages anew for fortress in northern Afghanistan after al-Qaida prisoners rise up
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan – Mortar shells exploding around them, hundreds of anti-Taliban fighters – and some U.S. soldiers – rushed into a mud-walled fortress Monday where dozens of captives loyal to Osama bin Laden were said to be fighting to the death.
 
11/29/2001
Intelligence work longtime dream for CIA officer killed in Afghanistan
WINFIELD, Ala. — Johnny "Mike" Spann craved the anonymous grunt work no one else wanted — covertly serving his country far away from this sleepy town that he called home.
 
11/30/2001
Alliance: Battle rages near Kandahar
KABUL, Afghanistan — Anti-Taliban fighters battled the hard-line militia Thursday on the outskirts of Kandahar, the ousted regime's last bastion, a key commander said. The Taliban's supreme leader declared the decisive battle ``has now begun.''
 
12/02/2001
More than 80 holdouts – one claiming to be an American – surrender at fortress
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – A man claiming to be an American was among more than 80 Taliban fighters who straggled out of a flooded basement days after their prison rebellion was crushed at an Afghan fort. Some of the captives were being treated in hospitals Sunday, a health official said.
 
12/03/2001
Man claiming to be American fought alongside Taliban, now in U.S. custody
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan – A man who fought with the Taliban and claims to be an American is in the custody of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after being discovered among captured Taliban troops and al-Qaida fighters.
 
Fighting rages at Kandahar's airport, U.S. warplanes target bin Laden hideouts
KABUL, Afghanistan – Tribal fighters battled the Taliban at Kandahar airport Monday, and U.S. warplanes pounded the city and suspected terrorist hideouts in the towering peaks along the Pakistan border in the east.
 
12/05/2001
Three U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — Three U.S. Special Forces soldiers were killed and 20 wounded in Afghanistan Wednesday when a U.S. bomb missed its Taliban target. The bomb, carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives, landed about 100 yards from the soldiers' position north of Kandahar, where the Taliban is making its last stand against Afghan opposition forces.
 
12/07/2001
Taliban collapse as they flee Kandahar; new leader says Omar must be arrested
KABUL, Afghanistan – Taliban forces abandoned their last stronghold Friday without a fight, freeing Kandahar from the Islamic militia's harsh grip. U.S. forces attacked armed fighters leaving the city, and Afghanistan's new leader vowed to arrest the fugitive mullah, Mohammed Omar.
 
U.S. jet fighters bomb mountain hide-outs, tribal leaders believe bin Laden in area
TORA BORA, Afghanistan – American jets made repeated runs over the forested mountains of eastern Afghanistan on Friday, bombing hide-outs of Osama bin Laden loyalists and filling the valleys with smoke and dust.
 
12/09/2001
U.S. warplanes unleash assault on Tora Bora
TORA BORA, Afghanistan — B-52s and other U.S. warplanes unleashed waves of airstrikes on the eastern Tora Bora cave complex on Sunday as Afghan tribesman prepared to launch a ground assault on its mainly foreign al-Qaida defenders.
 
12/13/2001
Bin Laden may be surrounded
TORA BORA, Afghanistan - As U.S. planes strafed and bombed al-Qaida positions, Afghan tribesmen and U.S. special forces may have cornered Osama bin Laden and his fighters Thursday in a snowy mountain canyon near the Pakistan border.
 
12/15/2001
Tora Bora fighters offer to surrender
TORA BORA, Afghanistan — Besieged al-Qaida fighters offered again Saturday to surrender as a new report surfaced that Osama bin Laden could be in the region. Opposition commanders feared the offer was just another ploy, and U.S. bombers kept up a relentless attack from the air.
 
12/18/2001
Tribal forces say al-Qaida defeated
TORA BORA, Afghanistan — A Soviet-built tank and trucks carrying Afghan fighters crawled along a narrow road Tuesday, as tribal forces pulled out of the battle-scarred ridges of the White Mountains, saying they had defeated Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida terror network.
 
12/20/2001
American Taliban fighter says he was in force funded by bin Laden
WASHINGTON – Dizzy from morphine and weary from battle, American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh said in an interview soon after his capture that he had been a part of Ansar, the Arab fighters funded by Osama bin Laden who fought for the Taliban.
 
12/22/2001
More Americans to be sent to Tora Bora
WASHINGTON — U.S. soldiers are keeping their focus on searching mountain caves and tunnels in Afghanistan that once held al-Qaida members as the Pentagon introduces a new weapon to kill those inside such underground complexes.
 
01/01/2002
Marines search former Taliban compound in hunt for Omar
WASHINGTON – About 200 U.S. Marines searched a former Taliban and al-Qaeda compound in southern Afghanistan today as the hunt for Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar continued.
 
01/02/2002
Pentagon doubts Omar seeking to surrender; Taliban intelligence chief death confirmed
KABUL, Afghanistan — American bombs killed the Taliban's intelligence chief, the new Afghan government confirmed Wednesday, and a tribal commander reported that negotiations were under way for the surrender of the ousted Taliban supreme leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar.
 
01/04/2002
American deaths related to the fight against terrorism
American deaths related to the fight against terrorism since the campaign began Oct. 7.
 
01/05/2002
U.S. soldier killed, CIA officer wounded in Afghanistan ambush
WASHINGTON – An Army Special Forces soldier was killed and a CIA officer wounded when ambushed in eastern Afghanistan.
 
Military veteran, father of two first U.S. soldier killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan
GEORGETOWN, Texas – Sitting beside a framed photo of their son, Sgt. 1st Class Nathan Ross Chapman, the parents of the first U.S. soldier killed by enemy fire in Afghanistan fought back tears Saturday as they recalled his Army career.
 
01/07/2002
U.S. warplanes renew strikes in eastern Afghanistan
WASHINGTON — American warplanes are striking a ``hotbed'' of terrorist support in eastern Afghanistan to wipe out regrouping Taliban and al-Qaida forces and hidden weaponry, military officials said Monday.
 
01/10/2002
Al-Qaida prisoners leave on flight to Cuba
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — The first planeload of al-Qaida prisoners departed a Marine base at Kandahar's airport Thursday night, flown to a U.S. military detention camp in Cuba, a spokesman said.
 
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