Timeline of the War on Terror

The War on Terror is the campaign launched by the United States of America in response to the September 11 attacks against organizations designated with terrorism.

[1][2] The campaign, whose stated objective was eliminating international terrorism, began in 2001.

[3] The following is a timeline of events linked to the War on Terror.

Saddam Hussein being pulled from his hideaway in Operation Red Dawn , 13 December 2003.
U.S. Army M106 mortar carriers of the 1st Infantry Division leaving Samarra after conducting an assault there during the Battle of Samarra , 1 October 2004.
An airstrike destroys a suspected insurgent hideout in Fallujah during the Second Battle of Fallujah , 8 November 2004.
Emergency vehicles at Russell Square after the 7 July 2005 London bombings .
U.S. Marines from the 2nd Marine Division and an Iraqi soldier engage insurgents during Operation Steel Curtain , a subsidiary operation of Operation Sayeed , 7 November 2005.
Corpse of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi , the leader of AQI , who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Hibhib, 7 June 2006.
A US Army Stryker following an IED blast near a village outside Baghdad , during Operation Imposing Law , 15 April 2007.
U.S. soldiers from the 2nd Infantry Division clearing a village on the outskirts of Baqubah as part of Operation Arrowhead Ripper during the Battle of Baqubah , 19 June 2007.
An OH-58D Kiowa provides air support to coalition troops during Operation Marne Torch I , as part of Operation Phantom Thunder , 28 June 2007.
A US Army Bradley Fighting Vehicle of the 3rd Infantry Division providing security for clearing operation in Salman Pak , Iraq, during Operation Phantom Phoenix . 16 February 2008.
A US Army AH-64D of the 4th Aviation Regiment flies over Iraq in support of ground forces during Operation Phantom Phoenix. 20 July 2008
Pakistani soldiers at an emplacement in the Swat Valley , during the Second Battle of Swat , 22 May 2009.
Coffins of soldiers killed in the 2009 Fort Hood shooting being loaded aboard an aircraft for flight to Dover Air Force Base , 6 November 2009.
Diagram of Osama bin Laden's hideout in Abbottabad , he was killed there on 2 May 2011.
Ansar Dine terrorists during the offensive against the Mali government, 2012
Kenyan troops of AMISOM and Somali militia of the Ras Kimboni Brigade, advancing on Kismayo in Somalia during the Second Battle of Kismayo , October 2012.
French soldiers on patrol in Gao , spring 2013.
JMA [ 124 ] or an ISIL suicide bomber detonates a car bomb during the final assault on the Menagh Air Base . 5 August 2013.
Two U.S. F-15E 's flying over Iraq after conducting airstrikes in Syria, 23 September 2014.
Ugandan special forces members clearing buildings in Barawe in Somalia as part of Operation Indian Ocean , 6 October 2014.
Pakistani forces clear the village of Mirali in North Waziristan , Pakistan, as part of Operation Zarb-e-Azb
The USS Carl Vinson , escorted by HMS Defender , USS Bunker Hill and FS Jean Bart in the Persian Gulf for strike operations in Iraq and Syria. 10 November 2014.
Coalition Airstrikes on ISIL positions in Kobanî in Syria, during the battle for the city , 19 November 2014.
Niger soldiers with a dead Boko Haram/ISWAP terrorist near Diffa in Niger , 27 March 2015.
Iraqi troops or Popular Mobilization Forces militiaman with a captured ISIL terrorist in Salahuddin campaign in Iraq, 6 April 2015.
A YPG T-55 in Tell Tamer during the Western al-Hasakah offensive in Syria, 22 May 2015.
A Russian Su-34 dropping bombs on targets in Syria, 9 October 2015.
The Eiffel Tower in Paris lit in blue white red in the aftermath of the November 2015 Paris attacks , 21 November 2015.
Members of the Mobile Brigade Corps during Operation Tinombala in Indonesia. 8 April 2016
Popular Mobilization Forces militiaman in Fallujah after defeating ISIL in the battle for the city , 28 June 2016.
Iraqi Special Operations Forces soldiers in Mosul during the Battle of Mosul , 16 November 2016.
A U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier assigned to the 22nd MEU takes off from the USS Wasp during Operation Odyssey Lightning. 5 December 2016.
Dead ISIL terrorists near the town of Mahmudli in Syria, during the Raqqa campaign (2016–17) , 17 December 2016.
YPG and YPJ fighters of the Syrian Democratic Forces in combat during the Raqqa campaign.
US surveillance footage of one of the ISIL in Libya camps near Sirte , before it was destroyed in airstrikes on 18 January 2017.
Filipino soldiers being deployed to participate in the Battle of Marawi in the Philippines, 5 June 2017.
U.S. Marine Corps artillery providing fire support to the Syrian Democratic Forces during the Battle of Raqqa (2017) , 21 June 2017.
Russian submarines firing cruise missiles against ISIL in Deir ez-Zor , Syria, [ 166 ] during the Deir ez-Zor campaign as part of the Eastern Syria campaign (September–December 2017) . 14 September 2017.
US special operations personnel advancing on the target building during the Barisha raid in Idlib Governorate , Syria , 26 October 2019.
American soldiers carry the remains of fellow service members killed in the 26 August 2021 Kabul Airport attack