A conflict between anti-Communist Muslim Afghan guerrillas (mujahidin) and Afghan government and Soviet forces. Then Britain and US Joined there war because they believed Bin Laden, leader of the taliban was in there. Bin Laden was the one behind the 9/11 bombing so the US were trying there best to catch him. They negotiated but didn't come to an agreement so they bombed Afghanistan

In September of 2001, some Islamic religious zealots hijacked 4 planes, flew 2 of them into the World Trade Center, one went to the U.S. Pentagon and the fourth crashed in an open field when the passangers took over from the zealots. The religious zealots were being trained in Afghanistan and funded by other religious zealots in other parts of the Middle East. The war on Afghanistan was a war against the religious zealots who feel that it's ok to murder. Because after all, they didn't really care who they murdered so long as they could have a hope of furthering their Islamic extremist agenda. They also thought it was ok to die in the name of their Islamic extremist agenda, so why not help them seek their goal and at the same time prevent a few innocent deaths in other parts of the world. The liberation of Afghanistan was essential for a civilized world to continue to exist.

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The first major event to affect the time leading up to the civil war in Afghanistan was the return from a decade of political exile of Mohammed Daoud Khan, in 1973. Daoud had been prime minister of Afghanistan until 1963, when his insistence on focusing on the question of reclaiming Afghan territories from Pakistan, rather than modernising Afghanistan as the King (Daoud?s cousin) Nadir Khan wished, had led to his forced resignation . Daoud?s return was in trouble really from before he actually returned to Afghanistan. Whilst he had been away, a rather haphazard constitutional monarchy had been established. Unfortunately (for Daoud at least) during this time many different political groups had emerged and grown stronger over the years . When Daoud returned he sought to re-establish an old style government, like the one he had left. While he was out of politics, Daoud saw both the issue of the areas of Pakistan which Afghanistan claimed, and the links he had made with the Soviets given less and less importance. The final straw was a particularly dry summer in Afghanistan, which led to a widespread famine during 1971." (to anyone using this website, STOP anybody can right anything they want...)

4000 US soldier died in 9 years. the terrorist in Iraq and Afghanistan lost about 2 million.

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the soviets role was that they wanted to conquer afgan and the U.S didn't want them to have that country so they shipped rifles and stingers to help fight the soviets

The Soviet army entered Afghanistan in Dec 25, 1979.

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This answer is incorrect, the Soviet army actually entered Afghanistan on the 24th of December 1979.

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This answer is also incorrect, the Soviet Army actually invaded Afghanistan on December 27th 1979.

There are approximately 2,500 Canadians in Afghanistan at present, including a battle group of about 900 front-line soldiers and a brigade headquarters as well as support staff (cooks, clerks, mechanics, medics, military police, and a complete field hospital with military doctors and nurses).

Every six months a new group of soldiers rotates in to replace the outgoing troops (every February and August).

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Since the last fiscal year, the US has spent about 1.1 Billion dollars in Afghanistan.

Because the Bronze Star Medal is awarded for both combat and non-combat reasons, many are awarded. Too many for a list

Sadly the answer changes every week. As of 6 February 2010, 109 Marines were killed by hostile forces and 40 more from non-combat causes (helicopter crashes, vehicle accidents, etc.) . In addition, 911 were wounded in action.

120 British troops have died in Afghanistan as of 13 Sept 2008

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War is war is a term to say all wars are alike and war is a war means wars are only bad.

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