US War on Terror
In October 2001, the US began bombing Afghanistan, targeting Bin Laden’s al-Qaeda fighters as well as the Taliban. The US Government deployed US soldiers to Afghanistan with the aim of dismantling al-Qaeda and denying the organization a safe base of operations by removing the Taliban from power.
Source: southbendtribune.com
The Taliban declined to extradite Bin Laden unless they were given what they deemed to be “convincing evidence” of his involvement in the 9/11 attacks, ignoring demands to shut down terrorist bases and hand over other terrorist suspects. And so, the long US war in Afghanistan began.