A Timeline On U.S. Military Action Against Islamist Groups With Links To International Terrorism

Anti-Taliban fighters watch U.S. bombs explode in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan in December 2001. The airstrikes were targeting Taliban and al Qaeda operatives in the region. Erik de Castro/Reuters/Landov

Targeting Terrorists With Bombs And Bullets -- Jason Hanna, CNN

The U.S. military is conducting airstrikes in Iraq against ISIS, in part to protect U.S. personnel in the country but also to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces as they tried to repel the group that has brutally captured a swath of the country for what it calls its new Islamic caliphate. The strikes are among the actions that the U.S. military has taken against Islamist groups or sponsors of international terrorism in the last 35 years.

Some military operations are carried out in secret, but others are publicly known. The following is a look at some of the major instances in which the U.S. military took action against Islamist groups or international terrorism.

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My Comment: This timeline gives a perspective on how long this conflict has been going on.