KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / AFGHANISTAN / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

 

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / AFGHANISTAN / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / AFGHANISTAN / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES

·      Afghanistan officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia (Capital: Kabul)

·      In 1996 Afghanistan fell into the hands of the Taliban

·      On September 11, 2001 there were a series of four coordinated suicide attacks upon the United States in New York City and the Washington, DC. On that day morning, 19 terrorists from the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda hijacked four passenger jets

·      The hijackers intentionally crashed two planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours

·      Hijackers crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia

·      The fourth jet, United Airlines Flight 93, crashed into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania after passengers attempted to take control before it could reach the hijacker’s intended target in Washington, DC. Nearly 3000 died in the attacks

·      US accused Osama bin Laden and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as the faces behind the attacks

·      When the Taliban refused to hand over bin Laden to US authorities and to disband al-Qaeda bases in Afghanistan, Operation Enduring Freedom was launched in which teams of American and British special forces worked with commanders of the United Front (Northern Alliance) against the Taliban.

·      In December 2001, after the Taliban government was toppled and the new Afghan government under Hamid Karzai was formed.

·      In December 2001, the United Nations Security Council authorized the creation of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to help maintain security in Afghanistan and assist the Karzai administration.

·      While NATO and other countries are rebuilding war-torn Afghanistan, insurgent groups such as the Taliban and Haqqani network are actively involved in a nationwide Taliban-led insurgency, which includes countless assassinations and suicide attacks against civilians, Afghan authorities and western forces.

·      According to the United Nations, the insurgents were responsible for 75% of civilian casualties in 2010 and 80% in 2011

·      In May 2, 2011, Bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by US forces in a covert operation ordered by United States President Barack Obama.

KERALA PSC / WORLD HISTORY / AFGHANISTAN / OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS / STUDY MATERIALS / GENERAL KNOWLEDGE / KERALA PSC PRELIMINARY / NOTES