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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