The War in Afghanistan (2001-present) is between Afghan Army troops, backed by additional United States troops, fighting against insurgents of the Taliban. This marked the start of the United States’s War on Terror. The United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, to remove the Taliban from power as they were hosting alQaeda terrorists, who were the main suspects of the September 11 attacks. Some of the Mujahideen warlords fled to the north of the country and joined the Northern Alliance who were fighting the Taliban. By 1998, almost the entire country was under the control of the Taliban. In 1995, the Taliban captured the province of Herat and in 1996, Kabul. In fact, many of them were trained in camps in Pakistan where they were refugees. In 1994, a group of students seized control of the city of Kandahar and started a battle for power to control the entire country. However, there was a civil war between the Mujahideen also in 1992 as they were divided into factions.
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