After the invasion of Afghanistan by US-led forces, democratic elections were held.
In the invasion, which started in October, 2001, the United States and the United Kingdom carried out the aerial bombing campaign, with ground forces provided mainly by the Northern Alliance. In 2002, the US, British and Canadian infantry were deployed, advancing with special forces from various allied nations such as Australia.
The declared aim of the invasion was to find Osama bin Laden and other Al Qaeda leaders to bring them to trial, and overthrow the government of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan ruled by the emir Mullah Omar, who in the opinion of the Western powers supported and gave refuge and coverage of Al Qaeda members. The Bush Doctrine of the United States declared that, as a policy, no distinction would be made between terrorist organizations and nations or governments that give them refuge.
On January 4, 2004, a new Constitution was approved and in October of that same year, the first democratic elections in history took place, in which the already interim president, Hamid Karzai, won.
