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War</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" style="text-align:center;border-bottom:1px solid #aaa;line-height:1.5em;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Mike_Spann_Memorial.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Mike_Spann_Memorial.JPG/275px-Mike_Spann_Memorial.JPG" decoding="async" width="275" height="366" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Mike_Spann_Memorial.JPG/413px-Mike_Spann_Memorial.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Mike_Spann_Memorial.JPG/550px-Mike_Spann_Memorial.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1617" data-file-height="2155" /></a></span><br /><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Micheal_Spann" title="Johnny Micheal Spann">Johnny Micheal Spann</a>'s memorial at Qala-i-Jangi in 2007.</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2"><table style="width:100%;margin:0;padding:0;border:0;display:inline-table"><tbody><tr><th style="padding-right:1em">Date</th><td>25 November 2001 – 1 December 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href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> <b>Prisoners</b>:<br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_Taliban.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></span> <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a><br /><span class="flagicon"><span class="mw-image-border" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Flag_of_Jihad.svg/23px-Flag_of_Jihad.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" 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Dostum">Abdul Rashid Dostum</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br />Major <a href="/wiki/Mark_E._Mitchell" title="Mark E. 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Mitchell</a><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> Unknown</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Strength</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> Unknown</td><td style="width:50%;padding-left:0.25em"> 300–500<sup id="cite_ref-est_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-est-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;font-size:110%;">Casualties and losses</th></tr><tr><td style="width:50%;border-right:1px dotted #aaa;"> 73 Afghans killed<br />250 Afghans wounded<br /><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Micheal_Spann" title="Johnny Micheal Spann">1 American killed</a><br />9 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href="/wiki/2007_in_Afghanistan" title="2007 in Afghanistan">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_in_Afghanistan" title="2008 in Afghanistan">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_in_Afghanistan" title="2009 in Afghanistan">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_in_Afghanistan" title="2010 in Afghanistan">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_in_Afghanistan" title="2011 in Afghanistan">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_in_Afghanistan" title="2012 in Afghanistan">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_in_Afghanistan" title="2013 in Afghanistan">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_in_Afghanistan" title="2014 in Afghanistan">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_in_Afghanistan" title="2015 in Afghanistan">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_in_Afghanistan" title="2016 in Afghanistan">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_in_Afghanistan" title="2017 in Afghanistan">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_in_Afghanistan" title="2018 in Afghanistan">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_in_Afghanistan" title="2019 in Afghanistan">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_in_Afghanistan" title="2020 in Afghanistan">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_in_Afghanistan" title="2021 in Afghanistan">2021</a></li></ul> <b><u>Battles and operations</u></b></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;margin:0;float:right;clear:right;width:25em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Campaignbox_2001_invasion_of_Afghanistan_campaign" title="Template:Campaignbox 2001 invasion of Afghanistan campaign"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:inherit">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Campaignbox_2001_invasion_of_Afghanistan_campaign" title="Template talk:Campaignbox 2001 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Mazar-i-Sharif">Mazar-i-Sharif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kunduz" title="Siege of Kunduz">Kunduz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_uprising_in_Herat" title="2001 uprising in Herat">Herat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2001)" title="Fall of Kabul (2001)">Kabul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarinkot" title="Battle of Tarinkot">Tarinkot</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Operation_Trent" title="Operation Trent">Trent</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kandahar" title="Fall of Kandahar">Kandahar</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Qala-i-Jangi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shawali_Kowt" title="Battle of Shawali Kowt">Shawali Kowt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sayyd_Alma_Kalay" title="Battle of Sayyd Alma Kalay">Sayyd Alma Kalay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora" title="Battle of Tora Bora">Tora Bora</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical mw-collapsible 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href="/wiki/Battle_of_Nawzad" title="Battle of Nawzad">Nawzad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Achilles" title="Operation Achilles"><i>Achilles</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Musa_Qala" title="Siege of Musa Qala">Musa Qala I</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Volcano" title="Operation Volcano"><i>Volcano</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Kryptonite" title="Operation Kryptonite"><i>Kryptonite</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Silver_(2007)" title="Operation Silver (2007)"><i>Silver</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Pickaxe-Handle" title="Operation Pickaxe-Handle"><i>Pickaxe-Handle</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Hammer_(Afghanistan)" title="Operation Hammer (Afghanistan)"><i>Hammer</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Nasrat" title="Operation Nasrat"><i>Nasrat</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Musa_Qala" title="Battle of Musa Qala">Musa Qala II</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Garmsir" title="Battle of Garmsir">Garmsir</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Eagle%27s_Summit" title="Operation Eagle's Summit"><i>Eagle's Summit</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Red_Dagger" title="Operation Red Dagger"><i>Red Dagger</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Shahi_Tandar" title="Operation Shahi Tandar"><i>Shahi Tandar</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Diesel" title="Operation Diesel"><i>Diesel</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Mar_Lewe" title="Operation Mar Lewe"><i>Mar Lewe</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Panther%27s_Claw" title="Operation Panther's Claw"><i>Panther's Claw</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Strike_of_the_Sword" title="Operation Strike of the Sword"><i>Strike of the Sword</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Dahaneh" title="Battle of Dahaneh">Dahaneh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Cobra%27s_Anger" title="Operation Cobra's Anger"><i>Cobra's Anger</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Moshtarak" title="Operation Moshtarak"><i>Moshtarak</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Tor_Shezada" title="Operation Tor Shezada"><i>Tor Shezada</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sangin_(2010)" title="Battle of Sangin (2010)">Battle of Sangin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2012_raid_on_Camp_Bastion" title="September 2012 raid on Camp Bastion">Camp Bastion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2017_Afghanistan_bombings" title="January 2017 Afghanistan bombings">January 2017 Lashkargah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Sangin" title="Fall of Sangin">Sangin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2017_Lashkargah_bombing" title="June 2017 Lashkargah bombing">June 2017 Lashkargah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Camp_Shorabak_attack" title="2019 Camp Shorabak attack">Camp Shorabak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="May 2020 Afghanistan attacks">Grishk</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical mw-collapsible 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title="Operation Kaika"><i>Kaika</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Panjwaii" title="Battle of Panjwaii">Panjwaii</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Falcon_Summit" title="Operation Falcon Summit"><i>Falcon Summit</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Hoover" title="Operation Hoover"><i>Hoover</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Luger" title="Operation Luger"><i>Luger</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Kamin" title="Operation Kamin"><i>Kamin</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shah_Wali_Kot_Offensive" title="Shah Wali Kot Offensive">Shah Wali Kot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Kandahar_bombing" title="2008 Kandahar bombing">2008 Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spin_Boldak_bombing" title="Spin Boldak bombing">Spin Boldak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarposa_prison_attack_of_2008" title="Sarposa prison attack of 2008">Sarposa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Arghandab_(2008)" title="Battle of Arghandab (2008)">Arghandab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wech_Baghtu_wedding_party_airstrike" title="Wech Baghtu wedding party airstrike">Wech Baghtu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Kandahar_bombing" title="2009 Kandahar bombing">2009 Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadahan_wedding_bombing" title="Nadahan wedding bombing">Nadahan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Hamkari&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Operation Hamkari (page does not exist)"><i>Hamkari</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Dragon_Strike" title="Operation Dragon Strike"><i>Dragon Strike</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Baawar" title="Operation Baawar"><i>Baawar</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kandahar_(2011)" title="Battle of Kandahar (2011)">Battle of Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kandahar_massacre" title="Kandahar massacre">Kandahar massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2017_Afghanistan_bombings" title="January 2017 Afghanistan bombings">2017 Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="May 2020 Afghanistan attacks">2020 Kandahar</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;margin:0;float:right;clear:right;width:25em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Campaignbox_Eastern_Afghanistan_campaign" title="Template:Campaignbox Eastern Afghanistan campaign"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:inherit">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Campaignbox_Eastern_Afghanistan_campaign" title="Template talk:Campaignbox Eastern Afghanistan campaign"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color:inherit">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a 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href="/wiki/Operation_Haven_Denial" title="Operation Haven Denial"><i>Haven Denial</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Mountain_Resolve" title="Operation Mountain Resolve"><i>Mountain Resolve</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Tar_Heels" title="Operation Tar Heels"><i>Tar Heels</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Korangal_Valley_campaign" title="Korangal Valley campaign">Korangal valley</a> (<a href="/wiki/Operation_Red_Wings" title="Operation Red Wings"><i>Red Wings</i></a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan_border_skirmishes" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghanistan–Pakistan border skirmishes">Jaji border incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2007 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram (2007)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_South_Korean_hostage_crisis_in_Afghanistan" title="2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan">South Korean hostages</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nangar_Khel_incident" title="Nangar Khel incident">Nangar Khel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Aranas" title="Battle of Aranas">Aranas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Wanat" title="Battle of Wanat">Wanat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ebrahimkhel" title="Battle of Ebrahimkhel">Ebrahimkhel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Alasay" title="Battle of Alasay">Alasay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Attack_on_Bari_Alai" title="Attack on Bari Alai">Bari Alai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Ganjgal" title="Battle of Ganjgal">Ganjal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kamdesh" title="Battle of Kamdesh">Kamdesh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night_raid_on_Narang" title="Night raid on Narang">Narang</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Khataba" title="Raid on Khataba">Khataba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Badakhshan_massacre" title="2010 Badakhshan massacre">2010 Badakhshan massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Bad_Pakh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Battle of Bad Pakh (page 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href="/wiki/Janikhel_offensive" title="Janikhel offensive">Janikhel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" title="2016 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram (2016)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohmand_Valley_raid" title="Mohmand Valley raid">Mohmand Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora_(2017)" title="Battle of Tora Bora (2017)">Tora Bora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Save_the_Children_Jalalabad_attack" title="Save the Children Jalalabad attack">Jalalabad (January 2018)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2018_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="July 2018 Jalalabad suicide bombing">Jalalabad (July 2018)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2018_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="September 2018 Jalalabad suicide bombing">Jalalabad (September 2018)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_September_2019_Afghanistan_bombings" title="17 September 2019 Afghanistan bombings">Charikar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="2019 Jalalabad suicide bombing">Jalalabad (2019)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Bagram_Airfield_attack" title="2019 Bagram Airfield attack">Bagram (2019)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="May 2020 Afghanistan attacks">May 2020</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-vertical mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;margin:0;float:right;clear:right;width:25em;margin-bottom:0.5em;"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Campaignbox_Kabul_province_campaign" title="Template:Campaignbox Kabul province campaign"><abbr title="View this template" style="color:inherit">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Campaignbox_Kabul_province_campaign" title="Template talk:Campaignbox Kabul province campaign"><abbr 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href="/wiki/Uzbin_Valley_ambush" title="Uzbin Valley ambush">Uzbin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2009_raids_on_Kabul" title="February 2009 raids on Kabul">2009 raids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_NATO_Afghanistan_headquarters_bombing" title="2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing">NATO HQ</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_bombing_of_Indian_embassy_in_Kabul" title="2009 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul">2009 Indian embassy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_UN_guest_house_attack_in_Kabul" title="2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul">Bakhtar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2010_Kabul_attack" title="January 2010 Kabul attack">January 2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2010_Kabul_attack" title="February 2010 Kabul attack">February 2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2010_Kabul_bombing" title="May 2010 Kabul bombing">May 2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Inter-Continental_Hotel_Kabul_attack" title="2011 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack">2011 Inter-Continental Hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_attack_on_the_United_States_embassy,_Kabul" title="2011 attack on the United States embassy, Kabul">September 2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Afghanistan_Ashura_bombings" title="2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings">December 2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2012_Afghanistan_attacks" title="April 2012 Afghanistan attacks">April 2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11_June_2013_Kabul_bombing" title="11 June 2013 Kabul bombing">June 2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Afghan_presidential_palace_attack" title="2013 Afghan presidential palace attack">Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2014_Kabul_restaurant_attack" title="January 2014 Kabul restaurant attack">January 2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Kabul_Serena_Hotel_shooting" title="2014 Kabul Serena Hotel shooting">2014 Serena Hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2014_Kabul_bombings" title="December 2014 Kabul bombings">December 2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Park_Palace_guesthouse_attack" title="2015 Park Palace guesthouse attack">Park Palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kabul_Parliament_attack" title="2015 Kabul Parliament attack">Parliament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7_August_2015_Kabul_attacks" title="7 August 2015 Kabul attacks">7 August 2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10_August_2015_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="10 August 2015 Kabul suicide bombing">10 August 2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22_August_2015_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="22 August 2015 Kabul suicide bombing">22 August 2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Spanish_Embassy_attack_in_Kabul" title="2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul">Spanish Embassy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2016_Kabul_attack" title="April 2016 Kabul attack">April 2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_attack_on_Canadian_Embassy_guards" title="Kabul attack on Canadian Embassy guards">Canadian Embassy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2016_Kabul_bombing" title="July 2016 Kabul bombing">July 2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_University_of_Afghanistan_attack" title="American University of Afghanistan attack">American University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2016_Kabul_attacks" title="September 2016 Kabul attacks">September 2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/January_2017_Afghanistan_bombings" title="January 2017 Afghanistan bombings">January 2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2017_Kabul_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="March 2017 Kabul attack">March 2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2017_Kabul_bombing" title="May 2017 Kabul bombing">May 2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20_October_2017_Afghanistan_attacks" title="20 October 2017 Afghanistan attacks">October 2017 mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28_December_2017_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="28 December 2017 Kabul suicide bombing">28 December 2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_Inter-Continental_Hotel_Kabul_attack" title="2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack">2018 Inter-Continental Hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_ambulance_bombing" title="Kabul ambulance bombing">Ambulance</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="March 2018 Kabul suicide bombing">March 2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22_April_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="22 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombing">22 April 2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30_April_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombings" title="30 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombings">30 April 2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2018_Kabul_attacks" title="September 2018 Kabul attacks">September 2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Kabul_mosque_bombing" title="2019 Kabul mosque bombing">2019 mosque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1_July_2019_Kabul_attack" title="1 July 2019 Kabul attack">1 July 2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28_July_2019_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="28 July 2019 Kabul suicide bombing">28 July 2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7_August_2019_Kabul_bombing" title="7 August 2019 Kabul bombing">7 August 2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_August_2019_Kabul_bombing" title="17 August 2019 Kabul bombing">17 August 2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2_and_5_September_2019_Kabul_bombings" title="2 and 5 September 2019 Kabul bombings">2 and 5 September 2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_September_2019_Afghanistan_bombings" title="17 September 2019 Afghanistan bombings">17 September 2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/6_March_2020_Kabul_shooting" title="6 March 2020 Kabul shooting">6 March 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_gurdwara_attack" title="Kabul gurdwara attack">Gurdwara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="May 2020 Afghanistan attacks">May 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="June 2020 Afghanistan attacks">June 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="July 2020 Afghanistan attacks">July 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="August 2020 Afghanistan attacks">August 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="September 2020 Afghanistan attacks">September 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="October 2020 Afghanistan attacks">October 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="November 2020 Afghanistan attacks">November 2020</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Kabul_University_attack" title="2020 Kabul University attack">University</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="December 2020 Afghanistan attacks">December 2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_school_bombing" title="2021 Kabul school bombing">2021 school</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">Fall of Kabul (2021)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_hospital_attack" title="2021 Kabul hospital attack">2021 hospital</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div><table class="nowraplinks 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id="Kunduz_Province1065" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><span style="line-height:1.6em"><a href="/wiki/Counterinsurgency_in_Northern_Afghanistan" title="Counterinsurgency in Northern Afghanistan"><span class="wrap">Kunduz Province</span></a></span></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_airlift" title="Kunduz airlift">Airlift</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kunduz" title="Siege of Kunduz">Siege</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Harekate_Yolo" title="Operation Harekate Yolo"><i>Harekate Yolo</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Karez" title="Operation Karez"><i>Karez</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Oqab" title="Operation Oqab"><i>Oqab</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Kunduz_airstrike" title="2009 Kunduz airstrike">2009 airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Sahda_Ehlm&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Operation Sahda Ehlm (page does not exist)"><i>Sahda Ehlm</i></a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Operation_Gala-e_Gorg&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Operation Gala-e Gorg (page does not exist)"><i>Gala-e Gorg</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Halmazag" title="Operation Halmazag"><i>Halmazag</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kunduz_(2015)" title="Battle of Kunduz (2015)">2015 battle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike" title="Kunduz hospital airstrike">Hospital airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz-Takhar_highway_hostage_crisis" title="Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis">Hostage crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kunduz_(2016)" title="Battle of Kunduz (2016)">2016 battle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Boz_Qandahari" title="Battle of Boz Qandahari">Boz Qandahari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_madrassa_airstrike" title="Kunduz madrassa airstrike">Kunduz madrassa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="May 2020 Afghanistan attacks">2020</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> <p><b><u>Major operations</u></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Mountain_Viper" title="Operation Mountain Viper"><i>Mountain Viper</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Asbury_Park" title="Operation Asbury Park"><i>Asbury Park</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Perth" title="Operation Perth"><i>Perth</i></a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chora" title="Battle of Chora">Chora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Firebase_Anaconda" title="Battle of Firebase Anaconda">Firebase Anaconda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shewan" title="Battle of Shewan">Shewan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Balamorghab_ambush" title="Balamorghab ambush">Balamorghab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sabzak" title="Battle of Sabzak">Sabzak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Derapet" title="Battle of Derapet">Derapet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Doan" title="Battle of Doan">Doan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kunduz_(2015)" title="Battle of Kunduz (2015)">Kunduz (2015)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Omari" title="Operation Omari">Omari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarinkot_(2016)" title="Battle of Tarinkot (2016)">Tarinkot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kunduz_(2016)" title="Battle of Kunduz (2016)">Kunduz (2016)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Boz_Qandahari" title="Battle of Boz Qandahari">Boz Qandahari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Darzab_(2017)" title="Battle of Darzab (2017)">Darzab (2017)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Farah" title="Battle of Farah">Farah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Darzab_(2018)" title="Battle of Darzab (2018)">Darzab (2018)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019%E2%80%932020_Kunar_offensive" title="2019–2020 Kunar offensive">Kunar (2019–2020)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghazni_offensive" title="Ghazni offensive">Ghazni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Taliban_offensive" title="2021 Taliban offensive">2021 Taliban offensive</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Zaranj" title="Capture of Zaranj">Zaranj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kunduz_(2021)" title="Battle of Kunduz (2021)">Kunduz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Herat" title="Fall of Herat">Herat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kandahar_(2021)" title="Battle of Kandahar (2021)">Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lashkargah" title="Battle of Lashkargah">Lashkargah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">Kabul</a></li></ul></li></ul> <p><b><u>Airstrikes</u></b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2001_Sayyd_Alma_Kalay_airstrike" title="2001 Sayyd Alma Kalay airstrike">Sayyd Alma Kalay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uruzgan_wedding_bombing" title="Uruzgan wedding bombing">Uruzgan wedding</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyderabad_airstrike" title="Hyderabad airstrike">Hyderabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gora_Prai_airstrike" title="Gora Prai airstrike">Gora Prai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haska_Meyna_wedding_party_airstrike" title="Haska Meyna wedding party airstrike">Haska Meyna/Deh Bala</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azizabad_airstrike" title="Azizabad airstrike">Azizabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wech_Baghtu_wedding_party_airstrike" title="Wech Baghtu wedding party airstrike">Wech Baghtu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Granai_airstrike" title="Granai airstrike">Granai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Kunduz_airstrike" title="2009 Kunduz airstrike">Kunduz (2009)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uruzgan_helicopter_attack" title="Uruzgan helicopter attack">Uruzgan helicopter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Sangin_airstrike" title="2010 Sangin airstrike">Sangin (2010)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mano_Gai_airstrike" title="Mano Gai airstrike">Mano Gai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Baraki_Barak_airstrike" title="Baraki Barak airstrike">Baraki Barak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Kapisa_airstrike" title="2012 Kapisa airstrike">Kapisa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Kunar" title="Raid on Kunar">Kunar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike" title="Kunduz hospital airstrike">Kunduz hospital</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Sangin_airstrike" title="2010 Sangin airstrike">Sangin (2017)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Nangarhar_airstrike" title="2017 Nangarhar airstrike">Nangarhar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_madrassa_airstrike" title="Kunduz madrassa airstrike">Kunduz madrassa</a></li></ul> <p><b><u>Major insurgent attacks</u></b><br /> <b>2002</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2002_Kabul_bombing" title="2002 Kabul bombing">Kabul</a></li></ul> <p><b>2007</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2007_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2007 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_South_Korean_hostage_crisis_in_Afghanistan" title="2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan">S Korean hostage</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Baghlan_sugar_factory_bombing" title="2007 Baghlan sugar factory bombing">Baghlan</a></li></ul> <p><b>2008</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2008_Kandahar_bombing" title="2008 Kandahar bombing">Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spin_Boldak_bombing" title="Spin Boldak bombing">Spin Boldak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Khost_suicide_bombing" title="2008 Khost suicide bombing">Khost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_bombing_of_Indian_embassy_in_Kabul" title="2008 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul">Kabul Indian embassy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Kabul_Serena_Hotel_attack" title="2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack">Kabul hotel</a></li></ul> <p><b>2009</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/February_2009_raids_on_Kabul" title="February 2009 raids on Kabul">Kabul raids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_NATO_Afghanistan_headquarters_bombing" title="2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing">Kabul NATO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Kandahar_bombing" title="2009 Kandahar bombing">Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_bombing_of_Indian_embassy_in_Kabul" title="2009 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul">Kabul Indian embassy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_UN_guest_house_attack_in_Kabul" title="2009 UN guest house attack in Kabul">Kabul UN guesthouse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Chapman_attack" title="Camp Chapman attack">Camp Chapman</a></li></ul> <p><b>2010</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_2010_Kabul_attack" title="January 2010 Kabul attack">Kabul (Jan)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2010_Kabul_attack" title="February 2010 Kabul attack">Kabul (Feb)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2010_Kabul_bombing" title="May 2010 Kabul bombing">Kabul (May)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadahan_wedding_bombing" title="Nadahan wedding bombing">Nadahan</a></li></ul> <p><b>2011</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2011_Logar_province_bombing" title="2011 Logar province bombing">Logar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Inter-Continental_Hotel_Kabul_attack" title="2011 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack">Kabul hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Nimruz_province_bombing" title="2011 Nimruz province bombing">Nimruz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Zabul_province_bombing" title="2011 Zabul province bombing">Zabul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_attack_on_the_United_States_embassy,_Kabul" title="2011 attack on the United States embassy, Kabul">Kabul (Sep)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Afghanistan_Ashura_bombings" title="2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings">Kabul & Mazar-e-Sharif</a></li></ul> <p><b>2012</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/April_2012_Afghanistan_attacks" title="April 2012 Afghanistan attacks">Raids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2012_raid_on_Camp_Bastion" title="September 2012 raid on Camp Bastion">Camp Bastion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forward_Operating_Base_Salerno#June_2012_Attack" title="Forward Operating Base Salerno">FOB Salerno Attack</a></li></ul> <p><b>2013</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Farah_attack" title="2013 Farah attack">Farah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11_June_2013_Kabul_bombing" title="11 June 2013 Kabul bombing">Kabul court</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Afghan_presidential_palace_attack" title="2013 Afghan presidential palace attack">Kabul palace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_bombing_of_Indian_consulate_in_Jalalabad" title="2013 bombing of Indian consulate in Jalalabad">Jalalabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_attack_on_U.S._consulate_in_Herat" title="2013 attack on U.S. consulate in Herat">Herat</a></li></ul> <p><b>2014</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_2014_Kabul_restaurant_attack" title="January 2014 Kabul restaurant attack">Kabul restaurant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Kabul_Serena_Hotel_shooting" title="2014 Kabul Serena Hotel shooting">Kabul hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_attack_on_Indian_consulate_in_Herat" title="2014 attack on Indian consulate in Herat">Herat Indian consulate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" title="2014 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Paktika_car_bombing" title="2014 Paktika car bombing">1st Paktika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Yahyakhel_suicide_bombing" title="2014 Yahyakhel suicide bombing">2nd Paktika</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2014_Kabul_bombings" title="December 2014 Kabul bombings">Kabul school</a></li></ul> <p><b>2015</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2015_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="2015 Jalalabad suicide bombing">Jalalabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Park_Palace_guesthouse_attack" title="2015 Park Palace guesthouse attack">Kabul hotel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kabul_Parliament_attack" title="2015 Kabul Parliament attack">Kabul Parliament</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Khost_suicide_bombing" title="2015 Khost suicide bombing">Khost</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7_August_2015_Kabul_attacks" title="7 August 2015 Kabul attacks">Kabul police</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10_August_2015_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="10 August 2015 Kabul suicide bombing">Kabul Airport</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22_August_2015_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="22 August 2015 Kabul suicide bombing">Kabul NATO</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghazni_prison_escape" title="Ghazni prison escape">Ghazni</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kandahar_Airport_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Kandahar Airport bombing">Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Spanish_Embassy_attack_in_Kabul" title="2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul">Kabul Spanish embassy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" title="2015 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram</a></li></ul> <p><b>2016</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2016_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2016 Jalalabad suicide bombing">Jalalabad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2016_Kabul_attack" title="April 2016 Kabul attack">Kabul NDS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz-Takhar_highway_hostage_crisis" title="Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis">Kunduz-Takhar highway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_attack_on_Canadian_Embassy_guards" title="Kabul attack on Canadian Embassy guards">Kabul Canadian embassy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30_June_2016_Afghanistan_bombings" title="30 June 2016 Afghanistan bombings">Wardak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2016_Kabul_bombing" title="July 2016 Kabul bombing">Kabul Hazara protest</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_University_of_Afghanistan_attack" title="American University of Afghanistan attack">Kabul University</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2016_Kabul_attacks" title="September 2016 Kabul attacks">Kabul Defense Ministry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_bombing_of_the_German_consulate_in_Mazar-i-Sharif" title="2016 bombing of the German consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif">Mazar-i-Sharif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" title="2016 Bagram Airfield 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<li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_airlift" title="2021 Kabul airlift">2021 Kabul airlift</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <p>The <b>Battle of Qala-i-Jangi</b> in Afghanistan (sometimes also referred to as the "Battle of <a href="/wiki/Mazar-i-Sharif" title="Mazar-i-Sharif">Mazar-i-Sharif</a>") was a six-day military engagement following an uprising of prisoners of war who had been taken into custody by US-led coalition forces on 25 November 2001. The battle took place from 25 November to 1 December, in northern Afghanistan. It followed the intervention by United States-led coalition forces to overthrow the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan_(1996%E2%80%932001)" title="Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)">Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a>, which had been harboring <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> operatives. </p><p>More than 400 foreign fighters surrendered outside Mazar-i-Sharif and were held at <a href="/wiki/Qala-i-Jangi" title="Qala-i-Jangi">Qala-i-Jangi</a> fortress by the Afghan <a href="/wiki/Northern_Alliance" title="Northern Alliance">Northern Alliance</a> forces, where they were interrogated by the anti-Taliban warlord <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum" title="Abdul Rashid Dostum">Abdul Rashid Dostum</a>'s fighters and <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">Central Intelligence Agency</a> (CIA) personnel hunting al-Qaeda suspects. The prisoners, who had not been searched properly when they surrendered, violently revolted and the ensuing fighting escalated into one of the bloodiest engagements of <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">the conflict</a>. It took Northern Alliance fighters, assisted by British and American <a href="/wiki/Special_forces" title="Special forces">special forces</a> and air support, six days to quell the revolt. </p><p>All but 86 of the prisoners were killed as well as a number of Northern Alliance fighters. The only U.S. fatality was the CIA officer <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Micheal_Spann" title="Johnny Micheal Spann">Johnny Micheal Spann</a>, the first American to be killed in combat during the 2001 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. Among the surviving prisoners were two American citizens suspected of fighting with the Taliban: <a href="/wiki/Yaser_Esam_Hamdi" title="Yaser Esam Hamdi">Yaser Esam Hamdi</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh" title="John Walker Lindh">John Walker Lindh</a>. Five American troops were wounded at Qala-i-Jangi on November 26, 2001, and were awarded the first <a href="/wiki/Purple_Heart" title="Purple Heart">Purple Hearts</a><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> of the Afghanistan war. <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy_SEALs" title="United States Navy SEALs">Navy SEALs</a> Master Chief Petty Officer Stephen R. Bass was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Navy_Cross" title="Navy Cross">Navy Cross</a><sup id="cite_ref-Harnden,_First_Casualty,_p._312_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harnden,_First_Casualty,_p._312-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Green Beret Major Mark Mitchell was awarded a <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Cross_(United_States)" title="Distinguished Service Cross (United States)">Distinguished Service Cross</a><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> for actions during the battle. The CIA agent, David N. Tyson, was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Intelligence_Cross" title="Distinguished Intelligence Cross">Distinguished Intelligence Cross</a><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Spann was awarded a posthumous <a href="/wiki/Intelligence_Star" title="Intelligence Star">Intelligence Star</a>. SBS members, Captain Jess and Corporal Tony, were awarded the <a href="/wiki/Conspicuous_Gallantry_Cross" title="Conspicuous Gallantry Cross">Conspicuous Gallantry Cross</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Harnden,_First_Casualty,_p._312_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harnden,_First_Casualty,_p._312-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Qala-i-Jangi&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kunduz" title="Siege of Kunduz">Siege of Kunduz</a></div> <p>In late November 2001, Taliban commanders, facing defeat in northern Afghanistan, agreed to surrender to the <a href="/wiki/Northern_Alliance" title="Northern Alliance">Northern Alliance</a> warlord General <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum" title="Abdul Rashid Dostum">Abdul Rashid Dostum</a>, leader of the ethnic-Uzbek dominated <a href="/wiki/National_Islamic_Movement_of_Afghanistan" title="National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan">National Islamic Movement of Afghanistan</a>, outside the besieged city of <a href="/wiki/Kunduz" title="Kunduz">Kunduz</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-ptf_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ptf-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The surrender was negotiated at Qala-i-Jangi on November 21<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> between Dostum and Taliban commanders <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Fazl" title="Mohammad Fazl">Mullah Mohammed Fazl</a> and <a href="/wiki/Noorullah_Noori" title="Noorullah Noori">Mullah Norullah Noori</a>. At 03:00 on November 24, more than 400 <a href="/wiki/Al_Ansar_guest_houses" title="Al Ansar guest houses">Al Ansar</a> "guest" foreign fighters (mostly from Arabic-speaking countries of the Middle East) also surrendered their weapons, including a large group that had arrived in a convoy one day earlier to a place 100 kilometres (62 mi) away from the agreed capitulation site, close to <a href="/wiki/Mazar-i-Sharif" title="Mazar-i-Sharif">Mazar-i-Sharif</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-trojan_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trojan-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dostum described the Taliban surrender as a "great victory" for the Alliance,<sup id="cite_ref-Time2_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time2-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a bloodless success that would allow the future reconciliation of citizens of Afghanistan. Thousands of prisoners were transported to the <a href="/wiki/Sheberghan_Prison" title="Sheberghan Prison">Sheberghan Prison</a> where <a href="/wiki/Afghan_Massacre:_The_Convoy_of_Death" title="Afghan Massacre: The Convoy of Death">it was alleged</a> that many of them died due to <a href="/wiki/Dasht-i-Leili_massacre" title="Dasht-i-Leili massacre">mistreatment during and after the transport</a>. </p><p>The CIA wanted to question the foreign fighters about the activities of <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a>. On the evening of November 24, it was decided to transfer the prisoners to <a href="/wiki/Qala-i-Jangi" title="Qala-i-Jangi">Qala-i-Jangi</a> ("the war fortress" in <a href="/wiki/Dari_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Dari language">Dari</a>), a 19th-century fortress near Mazar-i-Sharif that Dostum had previously used as his headquarters and ammunition depot. None of the prisoners being moved to the Qala-i-Jangi fort were Afghans. Many of them<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> were Arabs, from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and the Gulf states. There were also Azerbaijanis, Dagastanis, Filipinos, Indonesians, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Pakistanis, Tajiks, Tatars, Turks, Uighurs, and Uzbeks. The group also included Africans from Algeria, Morocco, Nigeria, and Sudan. A few fighters appeared to be white Westerners.<sup id="cite_ref-est_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-est-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Foreign suspects were transported on flatbed trucks to the fortress, now turned into a prison. The prisoners had not been searched, and some had concealed weapons during the surrender. On the day of the surrender, two prisoners committed suicide with grenades and killed one of Dostum's commanders and some others in two separate incidents at the makeshift prison. Despite the deaths, the National Islamic Movement militia did not reinforce security at the prison.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/John_Kerry" title="John Kerry">John Kerry</a>'s report for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Foreign_Relations" title="United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations">United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations</a> later alleged it was a pre-planned "<a href="/wiki/Trojan_Horse" title="Trojan Horse">Trojan Horse</a>" style operation, a gambit that would allow a die-hard force of foreign fighters to take over a strategically important fortified position at Qala-i-Jangi and capture a massive munitions stockpile.<sup id="cite_ref-trojan_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trojan-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Uprising">Uprising</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Qala-i-Jangi&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Uprising"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 25 November, two <a href="/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency">CIA</a> officers, <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Micheal_Spann" title="Johnny Micheal Spann">Johnny Micheal Spann</a> from the paramilitary <a href="/wiki/Special_Activities_Division" class="mw-redirect" title="Special Activities Division">Special Activities Division</a>, and David Tyson, a case officer, <a href="/wiki/Uzbek_language" title="Uzbek language">Uzbek</a> speaker and regional expert,<sup id="cite_ref-Shrine_Pilgrimage_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Shrine_Pilgrimage-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> arrived at Qala-e-Jangi to carry out prisoner interrogations in the fort's courtyard.<sup id="cite_ref-HuntingBL_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HuntingBL-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The CIA officers questioned selected prisoners, especially Sulayman al-Faris who was an American citizen born as <a href="/wiki/John_Walker_Lindh" title="John Walker Lindh">John Walker Lindh</a><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>(at the time, they noticed only that Lindh was a European-looking prisoner and different from the others, so he was singled out for an interrogation). Approximately two hours after the interviews began, a number of prisoners, some of them with concealed grenades, suddenly stood up and attacked their captors, who were outnumbered about four to one.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Attacking in a suicidal manner, revolting prisoners overran and killed Spann and several Afghan guards; they also appeared to be often much better trained than their Northern Alliance captors, many of whom were shocked and frightened by their enemies' display of skill and fanaticism.<sup id="cite_ref-strange_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strange-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The prisoners managed to take over the southern half of the fortress, including the armory and ammunition depot, seizing a large store of small arms, grenades, rocket-propelled grenade launchers, mortars and ammunition.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>With Spann missing in the chaos, Tyson escaped to the northern and more secure part of the fortress, where he was trapped with a television crew from the German <a href="/wiki/ARD_(broadcaster)" title="ARD (broadcaster)">ARD</a> network. He borrowed their <a href="/wiki/Satellite_phone" title="Satellite phone">satellite phone</a>, and called his wife Rosann<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> at their home in <a href="/wiki/Tashkent" title="Tashkent">Tashkent</a>, before then calling the U.S. embassy in Uzbekistan. He spoke to Major Mike Davison, a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Air_Force" title="United States Air Force">United States Air Force</a> (USAF) officer, telling him not to send any air support due to the proximity of allied Afghan forces. A 15-man rescue force was sent from the Turkish school, a base in Mazar-e-Sharif, made up of 9 <a href="/wiki/United_States_Army_Special_Forces" title="United States Army Special Forces">Green Berets</a>, and eight men from Z Squadron <a href="/wiki/Special_Boat_Service" title="Special Boat Service">Special Boat Service</a>. Northern Alliance reinforcements also arrived, sending fighters and a <a href="/wiki/T-55" class="mw-redirect" title="T-55">T-55</a> tank into the compound, where they started firing into the prisoner-controlled area. Several other television crews reached the battle, resulting in much of the fighting being filmed. At 14:00, the rescue force arrived, joining the Afghans in firing at the prisoners from the northern part of the fort. From 16:00 until nightfall, despite Tyson's requests, the force directed two <a href="/wiki/U.S._Navy" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Navy">U.S. Navy</a> <a href="/wiki/F/A-18_Hornet" class="mw-redirect" title="F/A-18 Hornet">F/A-18 Hornets</a> to drop nine 500-pound <a href="/wiki/GBU-12_Paveway_II" title="GBU-12 Paveway II">GBU-12 Paveway II</a> laser-guided bombs on the <a href="/wiki/Arsenal" title="Arsenal">armory</a>, which was serving as a <a href="/wiki/Base_of_fire" title="Base of fire">base of fire</a> for the entrenched prisoners. Tyson, German journalist Arnim Stauth and others fled just before dusk. Navy SEAL Stephen Bass then advanced to the western tower of the fort, locating the body of Spann,<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> with his actions during the battle earning him the Navy Cross. </p><p>The next day, Dostum's forces set up a command post near the northern gate to direct their tank and mortar fire. By mid-morning they were joined by U.S./British forces divided into three teams: a <a href="/wiki/Close_air_support" title="Close air support">close air support</a> team that went inside the fortress along the bottom of the northeast tower to direct bombing strikes into the southern courtyard, a second close air support team that positioned itself near the main gate of the fortress, and a Quick Reaction Force consisting of four more Special Forces troops, a <a href="/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">U.S. Navy</a> surgeon, and soldiers from the <a href="/wiki/10th_Mountain_Division_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="10th Mountain Division (United States)">10th Mountain Division</a>. At 11:00, a <a href="/wiki/Joint_Direct_Attack_Munition" title="Joint Direct Attack Munition">GBU-31 JDAM</a> guided bomb, weighing 2,000 pounds (957 kg), was dropped from a U.S. Marine Corps F-18C Hornet, mistakenly hitting a friendly position after the pilot entered the wrong coordinates. The bomb's explosion killed several Afghans and wounded many others on the northeast tower, flipped over a T-55 tank, and wounded five U.S. and four British operators.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> That night two <a href="/wiki/Lockheed_AC-130" title="Lockheed AC-130">AC-130H</a> Spectre gunships circled over the fortress, firing at the prisoners. The main ammunition store was hit, creating a massive explosion that continued to burn throughout the night.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some prisoners managed to escape from the fort, only to be captured and lynched by the local population.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the 27 November, the third day of the fighting, the allied forces mounted a systematic assault supported by tanks and other armored vehicles, defeating a counterattack by the prisoners. By the end of the day, they had recaptured most of the fort, at that point facing sporadic gunfire and some suicide grenade attacks.<sup id="cite_ref-strange_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strange-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Afghans recovered Spann's body early on 28 November.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was assumed by this point nearly all of the prisoners were dead but over 100 surviving prisoners had retreated to the basement dungeon of a central building. They were discovered only when body collectors attempted to enter, with the prisoners killing them and injuring two others.<sup id="cite_ref-strange_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strange-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Northern Alliance fighters fired and threw in grenades and explosives into the basement, and even poured oil in and tried to set it alight, but the resistance continued. Later on 28 November, General Dostum arrived and personally tried to persuade the last prisoners to surrender, to no effect. The next day, Dostum ordered the dungeon flooded with frigid irrigation water.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This tactic worked and the last holdouts finally surrendered on 1 December. Of the more than 400 prisoners brought to the fortress, just 86 emerged alive from the flooded basement.<sup id="cite_ref-worth_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-worth-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some survivors later claimed they did not participate in the battle. One also told <i><a href="/wiki/The_Observer" title="The Observer">The Observer</a></i> reporter <a href="/wiki/Luke_Harding" title="Luke Harding">Luke Harding</a> that some wanted to surrender earlier, but a group of seven Arabs took control and did not let them.<sup id="cite_ref-ptf_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ptf-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Aftermath">Aftermath</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Qala-i-Jangi&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Aftermath"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Of the 86 prisoners who survived the battle, one was found to be John Walker Lindh, an American convert to Islam who had moved to Afghanistan prior to the September 11 attacks in order to help the Taliban battle the Northern Alliance. Shortly after the battle, an embedded journalist working for <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a>, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Young_Pelton" title="Robert Young Pelton">Robert Young Pelton</a>, managed to identify the badly injured and <a href="/wiki/Hypothermia" title="Hypothermia">hypothermic</a> Lindh as an American. Lindh was then separated from other prisoners and his life was saved by an American special forces medic.<sup id="cite_ref-strange_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-strange-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lindh was later repatriated to the United States to face charges of <a href="/wiki/Treason" title="Treason">treason</a>. In 2002, he was found guilty of aiding and supporting the enemy and sentenced to 20 years in prison without parole. </p><p>In early 2002, at least 50<sup id="cite_ref-ptf_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ptf-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> other surviving prisoners were transferred to <a href="/wiki/Camp_X-Ray" title="Camp X-Ray">Camp X-Ray</a> at the newly constructed <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detention camp">Guantanamo Bay detention camp</a> at the U.S. Naval Base at <a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_Naval_Base" title="Guantanamo Bay Naval Base">Guantanamo Bay</a>, Cuba. They were mostly Arabs, including 21 <a href="/wiki/Saudis" title="Saudis">Saudis</a> and nine <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Yemen" title="Demographics of Yemen">Yemenis</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-ptf_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ptf-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but there were also some nationals from other countries such as Russian national <a href="/wiki/Rasul_Kudayev" title="Rasul Kudayev">Rasul Kudayev</a> (from <a href="/wiki/Kabardino-Balkaria" title="Kabardino-Balkaria">Kabardino-Balkaria</a>), who had allegedly joined the Afghanistan-based <a href="/wiki/Islamic_Movement_of_Uzbekistan" title="Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan">Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan</a> (IMU),<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Jabar_(Qala-i-Jangi_captive)" title="Abdul Jabar (Qala-i-Jangi captive)">Abdul Jabar</a>, an Uzbek member of the IMU. In 2004, after three years of detention without trial (at first at Camp X-Ray, until his identity was discovered), the U.S. citizen <a href="/wiki/Yaser_Esam_Hamdi" title="Yaser Esam Hamdi">Yaser Esam Hamdi</a> won a landmark <a href="/wiki/U.S._Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. Supreme Court">U.S. Supreme Court</a> case, <i>Hamdi v. Rumsfeld</i>, which affirmed the right of U.S. citizens to <i><a href="/wiki/Habeas_corpus" title="Habeas corpus">habeas corpus</a></i> and trial; he was released from United States custody without charges and was deported to his native Saudi Arabia. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Gen_Brown_awarding_first_DSC_since_Vietnam_to_Maj_Mark_Mitchell.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Gen_Brown_awarding_first_DSC_since_Vietnam_to_Maj_Mark_Mitchell.jpg/220px-Gen_Brown_awarding_first_DSC_since_Vietnam_to_Maj_Mark_Mitchell.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Gen_Brown_awarding_first_DSC_since_Vietnam_to_Maj_Mark_Mitchell.jpg/330px-Gen_Brown_awarding_first_DSC_since_Vietnam_to_Maj_Mark_Mitchell.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Gen_Brown_awarding_first_DSC_since_Vietnam_to_Maj_Mark_Mitchell.jpg/440px-Gen_Brown_awarding_first_DSC_since_Vietnam_to_Maj_Mark_Mitchell.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1269" data-file-height="933" /></a><figcaption>Major <a href="/wiki/Mark_E._Mitchell" title="Mark E. Mitchell">Mark E. Mitchell</a> being decorated for his combat actions during the battle by General <a href="/wiki/Bryan_D._Brown" title="Bryan D. Brown">Bryan D. Brown</a>, chief of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Special_Operations_Command" title="United States Special Operations Command">U.S. Special Operations Command</a></figcaption></figure> <p>For his actions during the battle, Major <a href="/wiki/Mark_E._Mitchell" title="Mark E. Mitchell">Mark E. Mitchell</a>, a U.S. Army Special Forces officer, was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Distinguished_Service_Cross_(United_States)" title="Distinguished Service Cross (United States)">Distinguished Service Cross</a>, the first such decoration to be awarded since the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Additionally, a U.S. Navy corpsman, Chief Petty Officer Stephen Bass, was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Navy_Cross_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Navy Cross (United States)">Navy Cross</a> for his actions while attached to the British Special Boat Service.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bass' Navy Cross was the first navy cross awarded since <a href="/wiki/Operation_Just_Cause" class="mw-redirect" title="Operation Just Cause">Operation Just Cause</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A biography of Bass can be found within the book <i>The Navy Cross: Extraordinary Heroism in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Spann, the only U.S. fatality, was recognized as the first American killed in combat during the U.S. 2001 invasion of Afghanistan. For his "extraordinary heroism" in fighting off the prisoners long enough to allow his colleagues to escape, Spann was posthumously awarded the CIA's <a href="/wiki/Intelligence_Star" title="Intelligence Star">Intelligence Star</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was buried in <a href="/wiki/Arlington_National_Cemetery" title="Arlington National Cemetery">Arlington National Cemetery</a> with full military honors due to his prior service in the Marine Corps, as well as his time in the CIA.<sup id="cite_ref-Bob_Woodward_2002,_page_317_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bob_Woodward_2002,_page_317-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spann's family visited the fortress after his death, and were told by Afghan doctors who were present on site at the time of the riot that they "thought Mike might run and retreat, but he held his position and fought using his AK rifle until out of ammo, and then drew and began firing his pistol", and that the only reason that they and several others were able to live was "because Mike stood his position and fought off the prisoners while enabling them the time to run to safety."<sup id="cite_ref-Time_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Qala-i-Jangi&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Controversies"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Due to the high number of prisoner casualties, and the use of massive firepower against them, the Northern Alliance and the foreign coalition forces were accused of breaking the <a href="/wiki/Geneva_Conventions" title="Geneva Conventions">Geneva Conventions</a> by using disproportionate means.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> American soldiers found a number of the dead with their arms tied behind their back.<sup id="cite_ref-Huggler_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Huggler-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Abdulaziz al-Oshan, one of the detainees, later summarized the incident and told American authorities at Guantanamo Bay: "They called it an uprising and it's not; it's some kind of massacre."<sup id="cite_ref-worth_27-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-worth-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Amnesty_International" title="Amnesty International">Amnesty International</a> called for an independent inquiry,<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the U.S. and British governments rejected this, arguing that the fierce and well-armed resistance of the uprising fully justified the use of airstrikes and heavy weapons against the revolting prisoners. </p><p>The Afghan forces were criticized for mismanagement of the prisoners, which is believed to have enabled the uprising. The captives were not properly searched and some carried grenades into the prison. Dostum later admitted this had been a mistake.<sup id="cite_ref-Time_36-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Time-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also, as Qala-i-Jangi had been previously a Taliban base, many of the prisoners had been there before and knew its layout. Dostum had planned to hold the men at a nearby airfield, but the U.S. was using it to ferry in supplies. By questioning the prisoners in a group, rather than separately, protected by few guards, the interrogators put themselves at risk with men known to be dangerous. <a href="/wiki/George_Tenet" title="George Tenet">George Tenet</a>, director of the CIA, dismissed the accusations of mismanagement and praised his agents as "heroes";<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in <i><a href="/wiki/Bush_at_War" title="Bush at War">Bush at War</a></i>, the journalist <a href="/wiki/Bob_Woodward" title="Bob Woodward">Bob Woodward</a> described Spann as a hero whose actions saved the lives of many.<sup id="cite_ref-Bob_Woodward_2002,_page_317_35-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bob_Woodward_2002,_page_317-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Representation_in_other_media">Representation in other media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Qala-i-Jangi&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Representation in other media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>In the documentary <i>The House of War</i>, Robert Young Pelton and filmmaker <a href="/wiki/Paul_Yule_(photojournalist)" title="Paul Yule (photojournalist)">Paul Yule</a> provided a detailed account of these events. Interviews and footage from CNN, ARD, and elsewhere (Dodge Billingsley and recovered interrogation footage) show Mike Spann and David Tyson moments before the uprising. Pelton's <i><a href="/wiki/The_World%27s_Most_Dangerous_Places" title="The World's Most Dangerous Places">The World's Most Dangerous Places</a></i> one-hour special "Inside Afghanistan" details his time with the U.S. Special Forces team (ODA 595) that fought with Dostum's troops.</li> <li>The incident was documented in the <a href="/wiki/National_Geographic_(American_TV_channel)" title="National Geographic (American TV channel)">National Geographic</a> documentary series <i><a href="/wiki/Critical_Situation" title="Critical Situation">Critical Situation</a></i> "Taliban Situation" and by French reporter Damien Degueldre in <i>Good Morning Afghanistan</i>.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Stanton" title="Doug Stanton">Doug Stanton</a>'s non-fiction book <i>Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan</i> opens with an account of the battle.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frederick_Forsyth" title="Frederick Forsyth">Frederick Forsyth</a>'s novel <i><a href="/wiki/The_Afghan" title="The Afghan">The Afghan</a></i> includes a partly fictional but detailed account of the battle and its context. Forsyth calls the captives the "six hundred most dangerous men in Asia." Out of 600, he counts 60 non-Arabs. The rest were "ultrafanatical" <a href="/wiki/Al-Qaeda" title="Al-Qaeda">al-Qaeda</a> Arabs who wanted to die and take an enemy with them to become a rewarded martyr.</li> <li>Damien Lewis's non-fiction book <i>Bloody Heroes</i> is a detailed account for the event with references and interviews from members of the SBS team.</li> <li>On the 19th anniversary of the battle, Tyson recounted the story of Spann's death, the battle that lead to it, and how he honored Spann's legacy in a podcast interview: <i>Intelligence Matters</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toby_Harnden" title="Toby Harnden">Toby Harnden</a>'s 2021 non-fiction book "First Casualty: The Untold Story of the CIA Mission to Avenge 9/11" contains eight out of 22 chapters on the Battle of Qala-i-Jangi</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Battle_of_Qala-i-Jangi&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Badaber_uprising" title="Badaber uprising">Badaber Uprising</a>, a similar uprising of the Soviet and Afghan communist captives in a fortress prison in Pakistan in 1985</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Mazar-i-Sharif" title="Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif">Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif</a>, which involved a killing of hundreds of Taliban who were cornered by the Northern Alliance and U.S. forces in a school building in 2001</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dasht-i-Leili_massacre" title="Dasht-i-Leili massacre">Dasht-i-Leili massacre</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 November</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Atlantic&rft.atitle=The+First+Battle+of+the+21st+Century&rft.date=2015-05-05&rft.aulast=Sennott&rft.aufirst=Charles+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Finternational%2Farchive%2F2015%2F05%2Fwar-afghanistan-spann-qala-i-jangi%2F392402%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABattle+of+Qala-i-Jangi" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDuMouchel2010" class="citation news cs1">DuMouchel, Leah (15 May 2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/doug-stanton-preview/">"Doug Stanton's 'Horse Soldiers' fight 21st century war on 19th century terrain"</a>. <i>The Ann Arbor News</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20161105032153/http://www.annarbor.com/entertainment/doug-stanton-preview/">Archived</a> from the original on 2016-11-05<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">4 November</span> 2016</span>. <q>Or, as ground commander Major Mark Mitchell put it, 'Brains before bullets. Outthink 'em so you don't have to outshoot 'em.'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Ann+Arbor+News&rft.atitle=Doug+Stanton%27s+%27Horse+Soldiers%27+fight+21st+century+war+on+19th+century+terrain&rft.date=2010-05-15&rft.aulast=DuMouchel&rft.aufirst=Leah&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.annarbor.com%2Fentertainment%2Fdoug-stanton-preview%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABattle+of+Qala-i-Jangi" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-est-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-est_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-est_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Estimates of the number of prisoners vary: some sources place their number at 300 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFPerry2001" class="citation magazine cs1">Perry, Alex (20 December 2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070930100844/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1001390-1,00.html">"Inside the Battle at Qala-i-Jangi"</a>. <i>Time</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1001390-1,00.html">the original</a> on 2007-09-30<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 20,</span> 2007</span>)</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Time&rft.atitle=Inside+the+Battle+at+Qala-i-Jangi&rft.date=2001-12-20&rft.aulast=Perry&rft.aufirst=Alex&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1001390-1%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABattle+of+Qala-i-Jangi" class="Z3988"></span>, others at 400 (<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071213192320/http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/archives/2002b_Monday19August2002.htm">"The House of War"</a>. <i>4C</i>. ABC. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/archives/2002b_Monday19August2002.htm">the original</a> on 2007-12-13)</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=4C&rft.atitle=The+House+of+War&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abc.net.au%2F4corners%2Farchives%2F2002b_Monday19August2002.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABattle+of+Qala-i-Jangi" class="Z3988"></span>, others at 500 <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/1678083.stm">"UK forces help end fort uprising"</a>. <i>BBC News</i>. 28 November 2001. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080117210003/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/1678083.stm">Archived</a> from the original on 2008-01-17)</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=BBC+News&rft.atitle=UK+forces+help+end+fort+uprising&rft.date=2001-11-28&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.bbc.co.uk%2F2%2Fhi%2Fuk_news%2Fpolitics%2F1678083.stm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABattle+of+Qala-i-Jangi" class="Z3988"></span>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ptf-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-ptf_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ptf_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ptf_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ptf_4-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-ptf_4-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140808045002/http://detaineetaskforce.org/read/files/assets/basic-html/page78.html">"The Report of The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment"</a>. p. 78. 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Little, Brown, 2021. p. 284.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Harnden,_First_Casualty,_p._312-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Harnden,_First_Casualty,_p._312_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Harnden,_First_Casualty,_p._312_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Harnden, "First Casualty", p. 312</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harnden, "First Casualty", p. 311</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harnden, "First Casualty", p. 310-311</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harnden, "First Casualty", p. 158</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-trojan-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-trojan_10-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-trojan_10-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Tora_Bora_Report.pdf">"Tora Bora Revisited: How We Failed to Get Bin Laden and Why It Matters Today"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i>Senate Committee on Foreign Relations</i>. Nov 30, 2009. Page 37 (chapter "Qala-i-Jangi: The Trojan Horse"). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130822004138/http://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Tora_Bora_Report.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on 2013-08-22.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Senate+Committee+on+Foreign+Relations&rft.atitle=Tora+Bora+Revisited%3A+How+We+Failed+to+Get+Bin+Laden+and+Why+It+Matters+Today&rft.pages=Page+37+%28chapter+%22Qala-i-Jangi%3A+The+Trojan+Horse%22%29&rft.date=2009-11-30&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foreign.senate.gov%2Fimo%2Fmedia%2Fdoc%2FTora_Bora_Report.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABattle+of+Qala-i-Jangi" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Time2-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Time2_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFPerry2001" class="citation magazine cs1">Perry, Alex (20 December 2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070930100844/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1001390-1,00.html">"Inside the Battle at Qala-i-Jangi"</a>. <i>Time</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1001390-1,00.html">the original</a> on 2007-09-30<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 20,</span> 2007</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Time&rft.atitle=Inside+the+Battle+at+Qala-i-Jangi&rft.date=2001-12-20&rft.aulast=Perry&rft.aufirst=Alex&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.time.com%2Ftime%2Fmagazine%2Farticle%2F0%2C9171%2C1001390-1%2C00.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABattle+of+Qala-i-Jangi" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harnden, "First Casualty", p. 168</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Perry, Alex, "Inside the Battle at Qali i Jangi", <i>Time</i>, Dec 1, 2001</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Shrine_Pilgrimage-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Shrine_Pilgrimage_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFDavid_Tyson1997" class="citation news cs1">David Tyson (1997). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.uga.edu/islam/turkmen.html">"Shrine Pilgrimage in Turkmenistan as a Means to Understand Islam among the Turkmen"</a>. <a href="/wiki/University_of_Georgia" title="University of Georgia">University of Georgia</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090801171747/http://www.uga.edu/islam/turkmen.html">Archived</a> from the original on 2009-08-01<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2009-08-02</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Shrine+Pilgrimage+in+Turkmenistan+as+a+Means+to+Understand+Islam+among+the+Turkmen&rft.date=1997&rft.au=David+Tyson&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.uga.edu%2Fislam%2Fturkmen.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABattle+of+Qala-i-Jangi" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HuntingBL-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-HuntingBL_15-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFMoore2003" class="citation book cs1">Moore, Robin (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/huntforbinladent00moor/page/167"><i>The Hunt for Bin Laden: Task Force Dagger</i></a>. New York: Random House. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/huntforbinladent00moor/page/167">167–169</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-375-50861-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-375-50861-9"><bdi>0-375-50861-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Hunt+for+Bin+Laden%3A+Task+Force+Dagger&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=167-169&rft.pub=Random+House&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-375-50861-9&rft.aulast=Moore&rft.aufirst=Robin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fhuntforbinladent00moor%2Fpage%2F167&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABattle+of+Qala-i-Jangi" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Kukis, Mark, "My Heart Became Attached: The Strange Journey of John Walker Lindh." Brassey's, Inc., 2003 p. 122</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/George_Tenet" title="George Tenet">George Tenet</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/At_the_Center_of_the_Storm:_My_Years_at_the_CIA" class="mw-redirect" title="At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA">At the Center of the Storm: My Years at the CIA</a></i> 2007, pp. 221-224. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-114778-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-114778-4">978-0-06-114778-4</a>.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-strange-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-strange_18-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-strange_18-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-strange_18-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-strange_18-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Mark Kukis, <i>"My Heart Became Attached": The Strange Journey of John Walker Lindh</i>, pages 126-146.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Berntsen, Gary and Ralph Pezzullo. <i>Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander</i> 2005, p. 252. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-307-23740-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-307-23740-8">978-0-307-23740-8</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harnden, "First Casualty", p. 200-201</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Harnden, "First Casualty", p. 239</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-CNN-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-CNN_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/shows/house.of.war/interactive/interactive/house.of.swf"><i>The house of war</i> – www.cnn.com</a>– Retrieved February 20, 2007 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070322202231/http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/presents/shows/house.of.war/interactive/interactive/house.of.swf">Archived</a> 2007-03-22 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2 November</span> 2016</span>. <q>During the same battle for which Stephen Bass became the first Navy SEAL to earn the Navy Cross since the invasion of Panama in 1989, Army Special Forces Major Mark Mitchell also earned the Distinguished Service Cross.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Hall+of+Valor&rft.atitle=Stephen+Bass&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fvalor.militarytimes.com%2Frecipient.php%3Frecipientid%3D3630&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABattle+of+Qala-i-Jangi" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-33"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-33">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><cite id="CITEREFJeffery_Cook,_Ph.D.2008" class="citation journal cs1">Jeffery Cook, Ph.D. (August 2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ijnhonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/wisebaron-cook.pdf">"James E. 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"Fatal errors that led to massacre"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160303203623/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/dec/01/afghanistan.richardnortontaylor">Archived</a> 2016-03-03 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i>The Guardian</i>. December 1, 2001.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Huggler-38"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Huggler_38-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Justin Huggler, "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/how-our-afghan-allies-applied-the-geneva-convention-618496.html">How our Afghan allies applied the Geneva Convention</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged August 2021">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup>", <i>The Independent</i>, 29 November 2001.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-39"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-39">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Richard Norton-Taylor. "<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/15/afghanistan.politics">SAS role in fort deaths questioned"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160721210328/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2001/dec/15/afghanistan.politics">Archived</a> 2016-07-21 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>, <i>The Guardian</i>, December 15, 2001.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-40"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-40">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/11/28/ret.spann.profile/">"Spann described as a hero"</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070117224340/http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/11/28/ret.spann.profile/">Archived</a> 2007-01-17 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a>. 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<li><a href="/wiki/NATO_logistics_during_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="NATO logistics during the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Logistics</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Impact_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="Impact of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Impact</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/International_Security_Assistance_Force" title="International Security Assistance Force">International Security Assistance Force</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Drone_strikes_in_Pakistan" title="Drone strikes in Pakistan">Drone strikes in Pakistan</a></li> <li>Withdrawal of U.S. troops <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Withdrawal_of_United_States_troops_from_Afghanistan_(2011%E2%80%932016)" title="Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2011–2016)">2011–2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020%E2%80%932021_U.S._troop_withdrawal_from_Afghanistan" title="2020–2021 U.S. troop 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casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2001–2006)">2001–2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2007)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2007)">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2008)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2008)">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2009)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2009)">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2011)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2011)">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_civilian_casualties_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan_(2012)" title="List of civilian casualties in the war in Afghanistan (2012)">2012</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coalition_casualties_in_Afghanistan" title="Coalition casualties in Afghanistan">Coalition</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/United_States_military_casualties_in_the_War_in_Afghanistan" title="United States military casualties in the War in Afghanistan">United States</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/British_Forces_casualties_in_Afghanistan_since_2001" title="British Forces casualties in Afghanistan since 2001">United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Canadian_Forces_casualties_in_Afghanistan" title="Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan">Canadian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/German_Armed_Forces_casualties_in_Afghanistan" title="German Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan">German</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Australian_Defence_Force_casualties_in_Afghanistan" title="List of Australian Defence Force casualties in Afghanistan">Australian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Norwegian_Armed_Forces_casualties_in_Afghanistan" title="List of Norwegian Armed Forces casualties in Afghanistan">Norwegian</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_aviation_accidents_and_incidents_in_the_war_in_Afghanistan" title="List of aviation accidents and incidents in the war in Afghanistan">Aviation incidents</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Timeline_of_the_War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="Timeline of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)">Timeline</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0;;wide"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2001_in_Afghanistan" title="2001 in Afghanistan">2001</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bombing_of_Kandahar_(2001)" title="Bombing of Kandahar (2001)">Bombing of Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Mazar-i-Sharif" title="Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif">Fall of Mazar-i-Sharif</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Kunduz" title="Siege of Kunduz">Siege of Kunduz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2001_uprising_in_Herat" title="2001 uprising in Herat">Herat uprising</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2001)" title="Fall of Kabul (2001)">Fall of Kabul</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarinkot" title="Battle of Tarinkot">Battle of Tarinkot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kandahar" title="Fall of Kandahar">Fall of Kandahar</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Battle of Qala-i-Jangi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dasht-i-Leili_massacre" title="Dasht-i-Leili massacre">Dasht-i-Leili massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Shawali_Kowt" title="Battle of Shawali Kowt">Battle of Shawali Kowt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sayyd_Alma_Kalay" title="Battle of Sayyd Alma Kalay">Battle of Sayyd Alma Kalay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora" title="Battle of Tora Bora">Battle of Tora Bora</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;">2002<br />–2006</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2002_in_Afghanistan" title="2002 in Afghanistan">2002</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Guantanamo_Bay_detention_camp" title="Guantanamo Bay detention camp">Guantanamo Bay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uruzgan_wedding_bombing" title="Uruzgan wedding bombing">Uruzgan bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2002_Kabul_bombing" title="2002 Kabul bombing">Kabul bombing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_in_Afghanistan" title="2003 in Afghanistan">2003</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2003_attack_on_the_Embassy_of_Pakistan_in_Kabul" title="2003 attack on the Embassy of Pakistan in Kabul">Pakistan Embassy in Kabul attack</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_in_Afghanistan" title="2004 in Afghanistan">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_in_Afghanistan" title="2005 in Afghanistan">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_in_Afghanistan" title="2006 in Afghanistan">2006</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2006_Taliban_offensive" title="2006 Taliban offensive">Taliban offensive</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2007_in_Afghanistan" title="2007 in Afghanistan">2007</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2007_Shinwar_shooting" title="2007 Shinwar shooting">Shinwar shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hyderabad_airstrike" title="Hyderabad airstrike">Hyderabad airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nangar_Khel_incident" title="Nangar Khel incident">Nangar Khel incident</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Helmand_Province_airstrikes" title="2007 Helmand Province airstrikes">Helmand airstrikes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Baghlan_sugar_factory_bombing" title="2007 Baghlan sugar factory bombing">Baghlan bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2007 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_South_Korean_hostage_crisis_in_Afghanistan" title="2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan">South Korean hostage crisis</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2008_in_Afghanistan" title="2008 in Afghanistan">2008</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Haska_Meyna_wedding_party_airstrike" title="Haska Meyna wedding party airstrike">Haska Meyna airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Azizabad_airstrike" title="Azizabad airstrike">Azizabad airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wech_Baghtu_wedding_party_airstrike" title="Wech Baghtu wedding party airstrike">Wech Bagtu airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_bombing_of_Indian_embassy_in_Kabul" title="2008 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul">Kabul Indian embassy bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Kabul_Serena_Hotel_attack" title="2008 Kabul Serena Hotel attack">Kabul S Hotel attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kidnapping_of_David_Rohde" title="Kidnapping of David Rohde">Kidnapping of David Rohde</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarposa_prison_attack_of_2008" title="Sarposa prison attack of 2008">Sarposa attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_Kandahar_bombing" title="2008 Kandahar bombing">Kandahar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spin_Boldak_bombing" title="Spin Boldak bombing">Spin Boldak bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2009_in_Afghanistan" title="2009 in Afghanistan">2009</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Granai_airstrike" title="Granai airstrike">Granai airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Kunduz_airstrike" title="2009 Kunduz airstrike">Kunduz airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Night_raid_on_Narang" title="Night raid on Narang">Narang raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2009_raids_on_Kabul" title="February 2009 raids on Kabul">February Kabul raids</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_bombing_of_Indian_embassy_in_Kabul" title="2009 bombing of Indian embassy in Kabul">Kabul Indian embassy bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_Kandahar_bombing" title="2009 Kandahar bombing">Kandahar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_NATO_Afghanistan_headquarters_bombing" title="2009 NATO Afghanistan headquarters bombing">NATO HQ bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Camp_Chapman_attack" title="Camp Chapman attack">Camp Chapman attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Sabzak" title="Battle of Sabzak">Battle of Sabzak</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2010_in_Afghanistan" title="2010 in Afghanistan">2010</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_2010_Kabul_attack" title="January 2010 Kabul attack">January Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raid_on_Khataba" title="Raid on Khataba">Raid on Khataba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/February_2010_Kabul_attack" title="February 2010 Kabul attack">February Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uruzgan_helicopter_attack" title="Uruzgan helicopter attack">Uruzgan attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Sangin_airstrike" title="2010 Sangin airstrike">Sangin airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maywand_District_murders" title="Maywand District murders">Maywand murders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarok_Kolache" title="Tarok Kolache">Tarok Kolache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nadahan_wedding_bombing" title="Nadahan wedding bombing">Nadahan bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2010_Kabul_bombing" title="May 2010 Kabul bombing">May Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_Badakhshan_massacre" title="2010 Badakhshan massacre">Badakhshan massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Halmazag" title="Operation Halmazag">Operation Halmazag</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2011_in_Afghanistan" title="2011 in Afghanistan">2011</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mano_Gai_airstrike" title="Mano Gai airstrike">Mano Gai airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sarposa_prison_tunneling_escape_of_2011" title="Sarposa prison tunneling escape of 2011">Sarposa prison escape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Osama_bin_Laden" title="Killing of Osama bin Laden">Bin Laden raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Logar_province_bombing" title="2011 Logar province bombing">Logar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Inter-Continental_Hotel_Kabul_attack" title="2011 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack">I-C Hotel Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Nimruz_province_bombing" title="2011 Nimruz province bombing">Nimruz bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Zabul_province_bombing" title="2011 Zabul province bombing">Zabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Afghanistan_Boeing_Chinook_shootdown" title="2011 Afghanistan Boeing Chinook shootdown">Chinook shootdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Helmand_Province_killing" title="2011 Helmand Province killing">Helmand killing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_NATO_attack_in_Pakistan" title="2011 NATO attack in Pakistan">Pakistani border attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_Afghanistan_Ashura_bombings" title="2011 Afghanistan Ashura bombings">Ashura bombings</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2012_in_Afghanistan" title="2012 in Afghanistan">2012</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_order_of_battle,_2012" title="War in Afghanistan order of battle, 2012">Order of battle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Video_of_U.S._Marines_urinating_on_Taliban_fighters" title="Video of U.S. Marines urinating on Taliban fighters">Urination video</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Kapisa_airstrike" title="2012 Kapisa airstrike">Kapisa airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_Afghanistan_Quran_burning_protests" title="2012 Afghanistan Quran burning protests">Quran burning protests</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2012_Afghanistan_attacks" title="April 2012 Afghanistan attacks">April attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forward_Operating_Base_Delhi_massacre" title="Forward Operating Base Delhi massacre">Forward Operating Base Delhi massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kandahar_massacre" title="Kandahar massacre">Kandahar massacre</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2012_raid_on_Camp_Bastion" title="September 2012 raid on Camp Bastion">September Camp Bastion raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shesh_Aba_raid" title="Shesh Aba raid">Shesh Aba raid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/U.S._soldiers_posing_with_body_parts_of_dead_Afghans" title="U.S. soldiers posing with body parts of dead Afghans">Body pictures</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2013_in_Afghanistan" title="2013 in Afghanistan">2013</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2013_Farah_attack" title="2013 Farah attack">Farah attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/11_June_2013_Kabul_bombing" title="11 June 2013 Kabul bombing">June Kabul bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_Afghan_presidential_palace_attack" title="2013 Afghan presidential palace attack">Presidential palace attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_attack_on_U.S._consulate_in_Herat" title="2013 attack on U.S. consulate in Herat">Herat U.S. consulate attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_bombing_of_Indian_consulate_in_Jalalabad" title="2013 bombing of Indian consulate in Jalalabad">Jalalabad Indian consulate bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2014_in_Afghanistan" title="2014 in Afghanistan">2014</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2014_Kabul_Serena_Hotel_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="2014 Kabul Serena Hotel attack">Kabul S Hotel attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_attack_on_Indian_consulate_in_Herat" title="2014 attack on Indian consulate in Herat">Herat Indian consulate attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" title="2014 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Paktika_car_bombing" title="2014 Paktika car bombing">Paktika bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_Yahyakhel_suicide_bombing" title="2014 Yahyakhel suicide bombing">Yahyakhel bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2014_Kabul_bombings" title="December 2014 Kabul bombings">December Kabul bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atiqullah_Raufi" title="Atiqullah Raufi">Atiqullah Raufi assassination</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2015_in_Afghanistan" title="2015 in Afghanistan">2015</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2015_Park_Palace_guesthouse_attack" title="2015 Park Palace guesthouse attack">Park Palace attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kabul_Parliament_attack" title="2015 Kabul Parliament attack">Kabul Parliament attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Khost_suicide_bombing" title="2015 Khost suicide bombing">Khost bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="2015 Jalalabad suicide bombing">April Jalalabad bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7_August_2015_Kabul_attacks" title="7 August 2015 Kabul attacks">7 August Kabul attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/10_August_2015_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="10 August 2015 Kabul suicide bombing">10 August Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22_August_2015_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="22 August 2015 Kabul suicide bombing">22 August Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghazni_prison_escape" title="Ghazni prison escape">Ghazni prison escape</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kunduz_(2015)" title="Battle of Kunduz (2015)">Battle of Kunduz</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike" title="Kunduz hospital airstrike">Hospital airstrike</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Kandahar_Airport_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2015 Kandahar Airport bombing">Kandahar Airport bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Spanish_Embassy_attack_in_Kabul" title="2015 Spanish Embassy attack in Kabul">Kabul Spanish Embassy attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" title="2015 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2016_in_Afghanistan" title="2016 in Afghanistan">2016</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nangarhar_offensive_(2016)" title="Nangarhar offensive (2016)">Nangarhar offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Omari" title="Operation Omari">Operation Omari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/April_2016_Kabul_attack" title="April 2016 Kabul attack">April Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz-Takhar_highway_hostage_crisis" title="Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis">Kunduz-Takhar highway hostage crisis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_attack_on_Canadian_Embassy_guards" title="Kabul attack on Canadian Embassy guards">Kabul Canadian Embassy convoy bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30_June_2016_Afghanistan_bombings" title="30 June 2016 Afghanistan bombings">30 June bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2016_Kabul_bombing" title="July 2016 Kabul bombing">July Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janikhel_offensive" title="Janikhel offensive">Janikhel offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/American_University_of_Afghanistan_attack" title="American University of Afghanistan attack">AUoA attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2016_Kabul_attacks" title="September 2016 Kabul attacks">September Kabul attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tarinkot_(2016)" title="Battle of Tarinkot (2016)">Battle of Tarinkot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kunduz_(2016)" title="Battle of Kunduz (2016)">Battle of Kunduz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Boz_Qandahari" title="Battle of Boz Qandahari">Battle of Boz Qandahari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_bombing_of_the_German_consulate_in_Mazar-i-Sharif" title="2016 bombing of the German consulate in Mazar-i-Sharif">Mazar-i-Sharif German consulate bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_Bagram_Airfield_bombing" title="2016 Bagram Airfield bombing">Bagram bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2017_in_Afghanistan" title="2017 in Afghanistan">2017</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/January_2017_Afghanistan_bombings" title="January 2017 Afghanistan bombings">January bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Sangin_airstrike" title="2017 Sangin airstrike">Sangin airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2017_Kabul_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="March 2017 Kabul attack">March Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Nangarhar_airstrike" title="2017 Nangarhar airstrike">Nangarhar airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_Camp_Shaheen_attack" title="2017 Camp Shaheen attack">Camp Shaheen attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2017_Kabul_bombing" title="May 2017 Kabul bombing">May Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2017_Herat_mosque_bombing" title="June 2017 Herat mosque bombing">June Herat bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Tora_Bora_(2017)" title="Battle of Tora Bora (2017)">Battle of Bora Bora</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2017_Lashkargah_bombing" title="June 2017 Lashkargah bombing">June Lashkargar bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2017_Herat_mosque_attack" title="August 2017 Herat mosque attack">August Herat attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_October_2017_Afghanistan_attacks" title="17 October 2017 Afghanistan attacks">17 October attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/20_October_2017_Afghanistan_attacks" title="20 October 2017 Afghanistan attacks">20 October attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28_December_2017_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="28 December 2017 Kabul suicide bombing">28 December Kabul bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2018_in_Afghanistan" title="2018 in Afghanistan">2018</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2018_Inter-Continental_Hotel_Kabul_attack" title="2018 Inter-Continental Hotel Kabul attack">I-C Hotel Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Save_the_Children_Jalalabad_attack" title="Save the Children Jalalabad attack">STC Jalalabad attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_ambulance_bombing" title="Kabul ambulance bombing">Kabul ambulance bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/March_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="March 2018 Kabul suicide bombing">March Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_madrassa_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Kunduz madrassa attack">Kunduz madrassa attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/22_April_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="22 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombing">22 April Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/30_April_2018_Kabul_suicide_bombings" title="30 April 2018 Kabul suicide bombings">30 April Kabul bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Farah" title="Battle of Farah">Battle of Farah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2018_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="July 2018 Jalalabad suicide bombing">July Jalalabad bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Darzab_(2018)" title="Battle of Darzab (2018)">Battle of Darzab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ghazni_offensive" title="Ghazni offensive">Ghazni offensive</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2018_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="September 2018 Jalalabad suicide bombing">September Jalalabad bombing</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2019_in_Afghanistan" title="2019 in Afghanistan">2019</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maidan_Shar_attack" title="Maidan Shar attack">Maidan Shar attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Camp_Shorabak_attack" title="2019 Camp Shorabak attack">Camp Shorabak attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Kabul_mosque_bombing" title="2019 Kabul mosque bombing">2019 Kabul mosque bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1_July_2019_Kabul_attack" title="1 July 2019 Kabul attack">1 July Kabul attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Ghazni_bombing" title="2019 Ghazni bombing">Ghazni bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/28_July_2019_Kabul_suicide_bombing" title="28 July 2019 Kabul suicide bombing">28 July Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2019_Farah_bombing" title="July 2019 Farah bombing">July Farah bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/7_August_2019_Kabul_bombing" title="7 August 2019 Kabul bombing">7 August Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_August_2019_Kabul_bombing" title="17 August 2019 Kabul bombing">17 August Kabul bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2_and_5_September_2019_Kabul_bombings" title="2 and 5 September 2019 Kabul bombings">2 & 5 September Kabul bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/17_September_2019_Afghanistan_bombings" title="17 September 2019 Afghanistan bombings">17 September bombings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Qalat_bombing" class="mw-redirect" title="2019 Qalat bombing">Qalat bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Jalalabad_suicide_bombing" title="2019 Jalalabad suicide bombing">Jalalabad suicide bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Haska_Meyna_mosque_bombing" title="Haska Meyna mosque bombing">Haska Meyna mosque bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_Bagram_Airfield_attack" title="2019 Bagram Airfield attack">Bagram attack</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2020_in_Afghanistan" title="2020 in Afghanistan">2020</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/6_March_2020_Kabul_shooting" title="6 March 2020 Kabul shooting">6 March Kabul shooting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kabul_gurdwara_attack" title="Kabul gurdwara attack">Kabul gurdwara attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/May_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="May 2020 Afghanistan attacks">May attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/June_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="June 2020 Afghanistan attacks">June attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/July_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="July 2020 Afghanistan attacks">July attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="August 2020 Afghanistan attacks">August attacks</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jalalabad_prison_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Jalalabad prison attack">Jalalabad prison</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/September_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="September 2020 Afghanistan attacks">September attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/October_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="October 2020 Afghanistan attacks">October attacks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/November_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="November 2020 Afghanistan attacks">November attacks</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2020_Kabul_University_attack" title="2020 Kabul University attack">Kabul University attack</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/December_2020_Afghanistan_attacks" title="December 2020 Afghanistan attacks">December attacks</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/2021_in_Afghanistan" title="2021 in Afghanistan">2021</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_2021_Afghanistan_attacks" title="List of 2021 Afghanistan attacks">Attacks</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2021_Taliban_offensive" title="2021 Taliban offensive">Taliban offensive</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_school_bombing" title="2021 Kabul school bombing">Kabul school bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Kandahar_(2021)" title="Battle of Kandahar (2021)">Battle of Kandahar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Herat" title="Fall of Herat">Fall of Herat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Lashkargah" title="Battle of Lashkargah">Battle of Lashkargah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Capture_of_Zaranj" title="Capture of Zaranj">Capture of Zaranj</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fall_of_Kabul_(2021)" title="Fall of Kabul (2021)">Fall of Kabul</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kunduz_mosque_bombing" title="2021 Kunduz mosque bombing">Kunduz mosque bombing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kandahar_bombing" title="2021 Kandahar bombing">Kandahar bombing</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_airlift" title="2021 Kabul airlift">2021 Kabul airlift</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Allies_Refuge" title="Operation Allies Refuge">Operation Allies Refuge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Pitting" title="Operation Pitting">Operation Pitting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Operation_Devi_Shakti" title="Operation Devi Shakti">Operation Devi Shakti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_Kabul_airport_attack" title="2021 Kabul airport attack">Kabul airport attack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_2021_Kabul_drone_strike" title="August 2021 Kabul drone strike">August 29 drone strike</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Aftermath_of_the_Afghanistan_War_(2001%E2%80%932021)" title="Aftermath of the Afghanistan War (2001–2021)">Aftermath</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Recognition_of_the_Islamic_Emirate_of_Afghanistan" title="Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan">Recognition of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Republican_insurgency_in_Afghanistan" title="Republican insurgency in Afghanistan">Republican insurgency</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Islamic_State%E2%80%93Taliban_conflict" title="Islamic State–Taliban conflict">Islamic State–Taliban conflict</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_frozen_assets" title="Afghan frozen assets">Afghan frozen assets</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/War_crimes_in_Afghanistan" title="War crimes in Afghanistan">War crimes</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/International_Criminal_Court_investigation_in_Afghanistan" title="International Criminal Court investigation in Afghanistan">ICC investigation</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Independent_Human_Rights_Commission" title="Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission">Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_unlawful_killings_inquiry" title="Afghan unlawful killings inquiry">UK Afghan Unlawful Killings inquiry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brereton_Report" title="Brereton Report">Australian Brereton Inquiry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/War_crimes_by_the_Taliban" class="mw-redirect" title="War crimes by the Taliban">War crimes by the Taliban</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kunduz_hospital_airstrike" title="Kunduz hospital airstrike">Kunduz hospital airstrike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kandahar_massacre" title="Kandahar massacre">Kandahar massacre</a></li> <li>Torture <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bagram_torture_and_prisoner_abuse" title="Bagram torture and prisoner abuse">Bagram torture and prisoner abuse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Salt_Pit" title="Salt Pit">Salt Pit</a></li></ul></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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