Uploaded June 2017 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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After the terror attacks of Sep. 11, 2001, the United States demanded the extradition of Osama bin Laden from the Taliban which ruled Afghanistan at the time and harbored the terrorist mastermind.

When the Taliban didn’t cough him up, the U.S. military went to work.

Official combat operations started on Oct. 7, 2001, in the form of airstrikes and Tomahawk missile attacks against suspected al-Qaeda training sites near Kandahar, Kabul, and Herat. On Nov. 16, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announced “we have had a limited number of American forces on the ground for weeks.”

He was talking about the "Horse Soldiers" — U.S. Special Forces attempting to secure northern Afghanistan with fighters from the Afghan Northern Alliance.

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