On November 13, 2001, amidst Phase Three of Operation Enduring Freedom, “the Taliban had fled from Kabul [Afghanistan]. By early December, all major cities had fallen to the coalition. On December 22 [2001], Hamid Karzai, a Pashtun leader from Kandahar, was installed as chairman of Afghanistan’s interim administration. Afghanistan had been liberated from the rule of the Taliban.”
– 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report, Pages 337-338