2007 in Afghanistan - September

September

  • September 2: War in Afghanistan: Scores of Taliban are killed in heavy fighting in the Kandahar and Arghandab regions of Afghanistan.
  • September 2: 2007 South Korean hostage crisis in Afghanistan: The 19 freed hostages return to South Korea.
  • September 5: War in Afghanistan: Afghan and U.S led coalition forces kill 20 insurgents while two Afghan policeman die in a bomb attack.
  • September 9: The President of Afghanistan Hamid Karzai is forced to cut short a speech in Kabul after gunfire is heard outside.
  • September 11: The Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper rules out sending further troops to Afghanistan.
  • September 12: Airstrikes and Afghan army gunfire kills more than 45 Taliban insurgents on the first day of Ramadan.
  • September 15: The Washington Post reports that the NATO-led Coalition Force in Afghanistan intercepted a shipment of Iranian arms intended for the Taliban.
  • September 19: War in Afghanistan: Coalition forces led by the British Army launch a major offensive in Helmand province.
  • September 20: Al Qaeda's Deputy Leader Ayman al-Zawahri claims that the United States is being defeated in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and North Africa.
  • September 21:
    • NATO's alliance forces say that its warplanes killed an unspecified number of civilians during a battle with Taliban forces.
    • A suicide bomber attacks a convoy of soldiers killing a French soldier and several Afghans.
  • September 26: The United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates asks for US$190 billion to cover the cost of the war in Iraq and war in Afghanistan during 2008.
  • September 27: Four employees of the International Red Cross, including two foreigners, are abducted in Afghanistan's Wardak province.

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