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.