dipity

A brief timeline to show the major events in Afghanistan from 1989 to the present.

Created by adalcorobbo on May 14, 2008

Last updated: 03/11/10 at 12:28 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  May 14, 2008 10:41 AM

• Partnership
  May 22, 2005

  U.S. and Afghanistan formalize Strategic Partnership, reaffirming U.S. long-term commitment to Afghanistan's reconstruction and stabilization.

• Presidential Election
  Oct 8, 2004

  Afghan Presidential election. More than 8.1 million Afghans participate.

• Seize Power
  Dec 6, 2001

  Coalition forces remove Taliban from power.

• Attacks on the US
  Sep 10, 2001

  Members of Osama bin Laden's al-Qaeda organization, headquartered in Afghanistan, committed a series of terrorist attacks on the commercial and military centers of the United States.

• Forced Out
  Sep 26, 1996

  The Taliban militia forced President Rabbani and his government out of Kabul.

• Taliban Begins
  1993

  The Taliban movement began to form in a small village between Lashkar Gah and Kandahar.

• War breaks out
  Feb 1992

  Afghanistan's Communist regime collapses, starting a civil war, and beginning a three-year period of growing anarchy and infighting among resistance groups.

• Withdrawl
  Jan 1989

  Soviets complete troop withdrawl from Afghanistan