Afghanistan fighting season

[2] The Taliban, who were the main insurgent group during the War, would annually call their post-winter fighting restart as their spring offensive.

[3][4][5][6][7][8] Timeline Major operations Airstrikes Major insurgent attacks 2002 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 Massacres Other Afghanistan has a harsh winter and a poor transportation system, leaving many parts of the country snowbound until spring.

Many routes into Pakistan, where recruits and weapons come from, are similarly impassable for months.

[10][11] Manpower that was tied up in the opium trade is freed up for fighting between April and October.

New recruits subjected to religious and military training often volunteer to fight in Afghanistan.

Coalition fatalities per month from the start of the war until 2015, showing seasonal peaks around the summer months. [ 1 ]
The winter causes many key connections, such as the Salang Pass pictured here, to be impassable due to heavy snowfall