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Seven major events in Afghanistan since 1989.

Created by rgootee on May 14, 2008

Last updated: 03/10/10 at 02:23 PM

• More elections held in country
  Sep 17, 2005

  Local and parliamentary elections held for the first time in 30 years.

• Presidential election held
  Oct 8, 2004

  Hamid Karzai was elected president in the first-ever presidential election

• Last Taliban-controlled city falls to coalition forces
  Dec 6, 2001

• United States begins war in Afghanistan
  Oct 6, 2001

  In response to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorists attacks, the United States, along with help from the United Kingdom, begins offensive against the Taliban government.

• Taliban take control of the capital
  Aug 1996

  Though the country stayed in a civil war basically, the Taliban took control of Kabul in September of 1996, ruling much of the country.

• Government overthrown
  Apr 17, 1992

  Soviet-backed government is overthrown.

• Soviet troops leave
  Jan 31, 1989

  Soviet Union troops leave Afghanistan