Sunday's and Monday's air strikes damaged or destroyed 85 percent of targets throughout Afghanistan, U.S. Air Force General Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a briefing for reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday.
National Geographic News offers comprehensive resources to view images and maps, and follow links to monitor the developments in Afghanistan and the United States.
The United States and Great Britain began strikes against al Qaeda terrorist training camps and military installations of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, on the weekend.
More than 40 countries are cooperating in "Operation Enduring Freedom" to find and punish the terrorists responsible for the attacks on New York and Washington in September.
Accompanying this story is a comprehensive list of links to follow developments in the Middle East and the United States. There is also a photo gallery of the first images of the strikes against Afghanistan released by the U.S. Department of Defense.
Washington and New York are the two cities that define the United States of America's character, writes historian Edward C. Smith. Outwardly vastly different, they nonetheless have much in common and have shared many experiences and personalities in their history. The terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 has bound them to one another more tightly.
Until now scientists had concluded that humans first colonized the far north at the end of the last Ice Age, about 14,000 years ago. But stone artifacts, animal bones, and a hand-marked mammoth tusk found in the Russian Arctic push the date back to nearly 40,000 years ago.
In an interview with National Geographic, Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki discusses the relationship between Osama bin Laden and the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan, mainstream Islamic beliefs and how they differ from those of groups such as the Taliban, and attitudes in the Middle East toward the United States.
In an interview with National Geographic, Imam Anwar Al-Awlaki of the Dar Al Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, shares his perspective on the tragic events of September 11 and the impact they have had on the United States and the world.
An ability to thrive in different climates was an important factor in the migration of early humans from tropical Africa to all corners of the globe. Now, stone tools from a region of northern China show that humans dwelled in such conditions in northeast Asia as long as 1.36 million years ago.
In putting into perspective the September 11 terrorist attack on America, historian Edward C. Smith recalls how the British burned down the White House and the Capitol and how Washington could so easily have been invaded by the Confederacy after the first battle of the Civil War. The world wars of the last century turned Washington into a world capital. It is, Smith writes, a city defined by war.
Six years ago the owners of a tourism Web site in the U.S. Virgin Islands started the Disaster Message Service to help people communicate after natural disasters such as hurricanes. But the volume of electronic mail the site received following Tuesday's terrorist attacks in America exceeded anything seen before.
A list of resources related to the recent terrorist attacks on America, including information on making donations to relief efforts, grief counseling, transportation updates, and the latest known status of victims, survivors, and missing persons.
As a traumatized nation began resuming the routine motions of daily life on Thursday, expressions of sympathy came from millions of people around the world, and other nations vowed to support America in the monumental task of healing and recovery after Tuesday's terrorist attacks.
Two staff members of the National Geographic Society, along with three Washington, D.C., teachers and three students they were traveling with on an educational trip, were among the victims of the terrorist attacks in the United States on Tuesday.
September 12, 2001
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As the World Trade Center collapsed and planes plunged from the sky, sending and receiving e-mail—the most popular Internet activity—became the indispensable communication tool.
As authorities continue to count the deaths and clear the rubble from the Pentagon in Washington and the World Trade Center site in New York City, experts agreed that the cluster of terrorist attacks on Tuesday was one of the worst catastrophes in U.S. history—including the most destructive events that have been inflicted by nature.
A basic tenet of corporations is that they survive from generation to generation, transcending the lives of even the most critical employees. September 11, 2001, will test that principle because of the scale of the terrorist attacks, some experts say.
