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War_on_Terror

The Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists or "AUMF" was made law on 14 September 2001, to authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against those responsible for the attacks on 11 September 2001. It authorized the President to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on 11 September 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons. Congress declares this is intended to constitute specific statutory authorization within the meaning of section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution of 1973.

Question: What law was signed on Sep 14, 2001?
Answer: Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists

Question: Who did the AUMF authorize the US military attacking?
Answer: those responsible for the attacks on 11 September 2001

Question: What law did Congress refer to as a basic for the AUMF?
Answer: section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution

Question: When was the War Powers Resolution passed?
Answer: 1973

Question: What is UAMF also known as?

Question: What was made law on 11 September 2001?

Question: What resolution was written in 1974?

Question: What does the AUMF authorize Congress?

Question: What was made law on 11 September?

Question: Which section of AUMF authorized armed forces to respond?

Question: What month was the War Powers Resolution signed?

Question: Who authorized AUMF?

Question: What previous resolution did AUMF contradict?
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Subsequently, in October 2001, U.S. forces (with UK and coalition allies) invaded Afghanistan to oust the Taliban regime. On 7 October 2001, the official invasion began with British and U.S. forces conducting airstrike campaigns over enemy targets. Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, fell by mid-November. The remaining al-Qaeda and Taliban remnants fell back to the rugged mountains of eastern Afghanistan, mainly Tora Bora. In December, Coalition forces (the U.S. and its allies) fought within that region. It is believed that Osama bin Laden escaped into Pakistan during the battle.

Question: When did the US invade Afghanistan?
Answer: October 2001

Question: Who helped the US invade Afghanistan?
Answer: UK and coalition allies

Question: What was the goal of the US invading Afghanistan?
Answer: oust the Taliban regime

Question: When did the US begin airstrikes on Afghanistan?
Answer: 7 October 2001

Question: Where did bin Laden escape to in Dec 2001?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: What city fell by mid-October in the invasion of Afghanistan?

Question: What region did Coalition forces fight in during November?

Question: Who escaped to Tora Bora, Pakistan during the December battle?

Question: When did Afghanistan forces invade the UK?

Question: Who allied with Afghanistan?

Question: What fell in October 2001?

Question: What is the name of the mountain range in Kabul?

Question: Who escaped into Afghanistan in December?
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The Taliban regrouped in western Pakistan and began to unleash an insurgent-style offensive against Coalition forces in late 2002. Throughout southern and eastern Afghanistan, firefights broke out between the surging Taliban and Coalition forces. Coalition forces responded with a series of military offensives and an increase in the amount of troops in Afghanistan. In February 2010, Coalition forces launched Operation Moshtarak in southern Afghanistan along with other military offensives in the hopes that they would destroy the Taliban insurgency once and for all. Peace talks are also underway between Taliban affiliated fighters and Coalition forces. In September 2014, Afghanistan and the United States signed a security agreement, which permits United States and NATO forces to remain in Afghanistan until at least 2024. The United States and other NATO and non-NATO forces are planning to withdraw; with the Taliban claiming it has defeated the United States and NATO, and the Obama Administration viewing it as a victory. In December 2014, ISAF encasing its colors, and Resolute Support began as the NATO operation in Afghanistan. Continued United States operations within Afghanistan will continue under the name "Operation Freedom's Sentinel".

Question: Where did the Taliban regroup in 2002?
Answer: western Pakistan

Question: In what parts of Afghanistan did the Taliban attack Coalition forces in 2002?
Answer: southern and eastern

Question: What operation began in Feb 2010?
Answer: Operation Moshtarak

Question: Where did Operation Moshtarak take place?
Answer: southern Afghanistan

Question: When did Afghanistan sign a security agreement with the US?
Answer: September 2014

Question: Where did the Taliban regroup in late 2001?

Question: What operation did Coalition forces launch in February 2002?

Question: What did Afghanistan and the US sign in December 2014?

Question: What will continued NATO operations within Afghanistan be known as?

Question: Where did Coalition forces regroup?

Question: What was the name of the insurgent-style offensive the Taliban used?

Question: What did NATO and the US sign in 2014?

Question: When do NATO forces have to leave Afghanistan by?

Question: What was the name of the security agreement?
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In January 2002, the United States Special Operations Command, Pacific deployed to the Philippines to advise and assist the Armed Forces of the Philippines in combating Filipino Islamist groups. The operations were mainly focused on removing the Abu Sayyaf group and Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) from their stronghold on the island of Basilan. The second portion of the operation was conducted as a humanitarian program called "Operation Smiles". The goal of the program was to provide medical care and services to the region of Basilan as part of a "Hearts and Minds" program. Joint Special Operations Task Force – Philippines disbanded in June 2014, ending a 14-year mission. After JSOTF-P disbanded, as late as November 2014, American forces continued to operate in the Philippines under the name "PACOM Augmentation Team".

Question: Where did the USSOC Pacific deploy to in Jan 2002?
Answer: Philippines

Question: What was the goal of the 2002 Philippines deployment?
Answer: combating Filipino Islamist groups

Question: What was the main Filipino Islamist group being attacked?
Answer: Abu Sayyaf

Question: What humanitarian effort followed the 2002 military operation in the Philippines?
Answer: Operation Smiles

Question: What did Operation Smiles do for the Philippines?
Answer: provide medical care and services to the region of Basilan

Question: What island did Abu Islamiyah and Jemaah Sayyaf have a stronghold on?

Question: What was the goal of "Smiles Operation?"

Question: What disbanded in November 2014?

Question: Who operated under the name "PAMOC Augmentation Team?"

Question: Who was deployed to help the Filipino Islamist groups?

Question: How long had the Abu Sayyaf group been in Basilan?

Question: What did PACOM Augmentation Team rename itself as?

Question: What was the name of the operation to remove Abu Sayyaf?

Question: Where was the headquarters of the Armed Forces of the Philippines?
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On 14 September 2009, U.S. Special Forces killed two men and wounded and captured two others near the Somali village of Baarawe. Witnesses claim that helicopters used for the operation launched from French-flagged warships, but that could not be confirmed. A Somali-based al-Qaida affiliated group, the Al-Shabaab, has confirmed the death of "sheik commander" Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan along with an unspecified number of militants. Nabhan, a Kenyan, was wanted in connection with the 2002 Mombasa attacks.

Question: How many people were killed by US Special Forces on Sep 14, 2009?
Answer: two

Question: Where was the Sep 14, 2009 action?
Answer: near the Somali village of Baarawe

Question: What country's ships did some witnesses say were involved in the Baarawe attack?
Answer: French

Question: What Somali group is affiliated with al-Qaeda?
Answer: Al-Shabaab

Question: What nationality was Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan?
Answer: Kenyan

Question: What did U.S. Special Forces do on 14 September 2002?

Question: What was the title for Saleh Nabhan Saleh Ali?

Question: Who was wanted in connection with the 2002 Kenyan attacks?

Question: Witnesses from what village claim they saw French-flagged warships?

Question: How many US Special Forces were killed on 14 September 2009?

Question: How many were captured in the 2002 Mombasa attacks?

Question: What was the name of the village attacked in Mombasa?

Question: What nationality were the warships confirmed as?

Question: What was the name of the Kenyan al-Qaeda group?
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The conflict in northern Mali began in January 2012 with radical Islamists (affiliated to al-Qaeda) advancing into northern Mali. The Malian government had a hard time maintaining full control over their country. The fledgling government requested support from the international community on combating the Islamic militants. In January 2013, France intervened on behalf of the Malian government's request and deployed troops into the region. They launched Operation Serval on 11 January 2013, with the hopes of dislodging the al-Qaeda affiliated groups from northern Mali.

Question: When did a Mali conflict begin?
Answer: January 2012

Question: What group were the Mali radicals affiliated with?
Answer: al-Qaeda

Question: When did France provide troops in Mali?
Answer: January 2013

Question: What did France call its Mali operation?
Answer: Operation Serval

Question: What was Operation Serval's goal?
Answer: dislodging the al-Qaeda affiliated groups from northern Mali

Question: Where did a conflict begin in January 2013?

Question: What government asked for help from the national community for combating Islamic militants?

Question: What country intervened on behalf of the Malian government in January 2012?

Question: When was Serval Operation launched?

Question: On whose behalf did the Malian government intervene?

Question: What was the name of the Islamist advance into northern Mali?

Question: When were al-Qaeda groups removed from northern Mali?

Question: What did the French government struggle to maintain?

Question: Who did Islamic militants request help from?
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Following the ceasefire agreement that suspended hostilities (but not officially ended) in the 1991 Gulf War, the United States and its allies instituted and began patrolling Iraqi no-fly zones, to protect Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'a Arab population—both of which suffered attacks from the Hussein regime before and after the Gulf War—in Iraq's northern and southern regions, respectively. U.S. forces continued in combat zone deployments through November 1995 and launched Operation Desert Fox against Iraq in 1998 after it failed to meet U.S. demands of "unconditional cooperation" in weapons inspections.

Question: When did the first Gulf War begin?
Answer: 1991

Question: How did the first Gulf War end?
Answer: ceasefire agreement that suspended hostilities (but not officially ended)

Question: Who did the US try to protect in Iraq after the first Gulf War?
Answer: Iraq's Kurdish and Shi'a Arab population

Question: Which region of Iraq do the Kurds live in?
Answer: northern

Question: Which region of Iraq do the Shi'a live in?
Answer: southern

Question: What was instituted to protect Iraq's Arab and Shi'a Kurdish population?

Question: Who suffered attacks from the Hussein regime before the Gulf War?

Question: What operation was launched against Iraq in November 1995?

Question: What did Iraq fail to meet in 1995?

Question: What year did the first Gulf War end?

Question: What did the US and its allies do once the hostilities were officially over?

Question: What was launched in 1995?

Question: Who was trying to protect the Hussein regime?

Question: What Iraqi populations attacked the Hussein regime?
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The first ground attack came at the Battle of Umm Qasr on 21 March 2003 when a combined force of British, American and Polish forces seized control of the port city of Umm Qasr. Baghdad, Iraq's capital city, fell to American forces in April 2003 and Saddam Hussein's government quickly dissolved. On 1 May 2003, Bush announced that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. However, an insurgency arose against the U.S.-led coalition and the newly developing Iraqi military and post-Saddam government. The insurgency, which included al-Qaeda affiliated groups, led to far more coalition casualties than the invasion. Other elements of the insurgency were led by fugitive members of President Hussein's Ba'ath regime, which included Iraqi nationalists and pan-Arabists. Many insurgency leaders are Islamists and claim to be fighting a religious war to reestablish the Islamic Caliphate of centuries past. Iraq's former president, Saddam Hussein was captured by U.S. forces in December 2003. He was executed in 2006.

Question: When was the first ground attack in the post-9/11 Iraq war?
Answer: 21 March 2003

Question: Which nationalities worked together in the Battle of Umm Qasr?
Answer: British, American and Polish

Question: When did the US capture Baghdad?
Answer: April 2003

Question: When did Bush say 'major combat operations' were complete in Iraq?
Answer: 1 May 2003

Question: What regime were Hussein loyalists part of?
Answer: Ba'ath

Question: When did the Battle of Qasr Umm take place?

Question: What city fell to American forces in May 2003?

Question: What announcement did Bush make on 1 April 2003?

Question: Who was captured in December 2006?

Question: Who did the Bath regime include?

Question: What country is Umm Qasr the capital of?

Question: When did American forces fall?

Question: When did Saddam Hussein announce the operations had ended?

Question: What had fewer casualties than the invasion?

Question: When was the Islamic Caliphate executed by US forces?
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In a major split in the ranks of Al Qaeda's organization, the Iraqi franchise, known as Al Qaeda in Iraq covertly invaded Syria and the Levant and began participating in the ongoing Syrian Civil War, gaining enough support and strength to re-invade Iraq's western provinces under the name of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL), taking over much of the country in a blitzkrieg-like action and combining the Iraq insurgency and Syrian Civil War into a single conflict. Due to their extreme brutality and a complete change in their overall ideology, Al Qaeda's core organization in Central Asia eventually denounced ISIS and directed their affiliates to cut off all ties with this organization. Many analysts[who?] believe that because of this schism, Al Qaeda and ISIL are now in a competition to retain the title of the world's most powerful terrorist organization.

Question: Which civil war did the Iraq branch of Al Qaeda begin fighting in?
Answer: Syrian

Question: With support from Syrians, what did the Iraq branch of Al Qaeda rename themselves to?
Answer: Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS/ISIL)

Question: What part of Iraq did ISIS invade?
Answer: western

Question: Who denounced ISIS?
Answer: Al Qaeda's core organization

Question: What relationship do Al Qaeda and ISIS now have?
Answer: competition

Question: What group split the Iraq insurgency and Syrian Civil War?

Question: What group publicly denounced al-Qaeda?

Question: Which two groups do analysts believe have combined?

Question: Where is ISIS's core organization?

Question: What country did Syria covertly invade?
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The Obama administration began to reengage in Iraq with a series of airstrikes aimed at ISIS beginning on 10 August 2014. On 9 September 2014 President Obama said that he had the authority he needed to take action to destroy the militant group known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, citing the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists, and thus did not require additional approval from Congress. The following day on 10 September 2014 President Barack Obama made a televised speech about ISIL, which he stated "Our objective is clear: We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy". Obama has authorized the deployment of additional U.S. Forces into Iraq, as well as authorizing direct military operations against ISIL within Syria. On the night of 21/22 September the United States, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan and Qatar started air attacks against ISIS in Syria.[citation needed]

Question: When did Obama launch airstrikes on ISIS?
Answer: 10 August 2014

Question: What law did Obama cite on Sep 9, 2014?
Answer: the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists

Question: When did Obama make a speech about ISIS on TV?
Answer: 10 September 2014

Question: Which countries worked together to bomb ISIS on Sep 21-22, 2014?
Answer: the United States, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the UAE, Jordan and Qatar

Question: Where were the Sep 21-22 airstrikes?
Answer: Syria

Question: When did Iraq reengage with the Obama administration?

Question: Who did Iraq aim their airstrikes at?

Question: Who is the president of Iraq?

Question: What law did Congress cite, allowing it to take action against ISIS?

Question: Which countries did ISIS launch an air attack against on 21/22 September?
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Following the 11 September 2001 attacks, former President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf sided with the U.S. against the Taliban government in Afghanistan after an ultimatum by then U.S. President George W. Bush. Musharraf agreed to give the U.S. the use of three airbases for Operation Enduring Freedom. United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and other U.S. administration officials met with Musharraf. On 19 September 2001, Musharraf addressed the people of Pakistan and stated that, while he opposed military tactics against the Taliban, Pakistan risked being endangered by an alliance of India and the U.S. if it did not cooperate. In 2006, Musharraf testified that this stance was pressured by threats from the U.S., and revealed in his memoirs that he had "war-gamed" the United States as an adversary and decided that it would end in a loss for Pakistan.

Question: Which Pakistan president supported the US attacking the Taliban?
Answer: Pervez Musharraf

Question: How many Pakistan airbases did Musharraf let the US use?
Answer: three

Question: What was the name of the US's Afghanistan operation?
Answer: Operation Enduring Freedom

Question: Who was the US Secretary of State in 2001?
Answer: Colin Powell

Question: Who said he had 'war-gamed' the US?
Answer: Musharraf

Question: Which former president sided with the Taliban?

Question: How many airbases did the Taliban receive?

Question: Who was the current president of Afghanistan?

Question: What did Colin Powell testify in 2006?

Question: Who was at risk in an alliance between the US and Pakistan?
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On 12 January 2002, Musharraf gave a speech against Islamic extremism. He unequivocally condemned all acts of terrorism and pledged to combat Islamic extremism and lawlessness within Pakistan itself. He stated that his government was committed to rooting out extremism and made it clear that the banned militant organizations would not be allowed to resurface under any new name. He said, "the recent decision to ban extremist groups promoting militancy was taken in the national interest after thorough consultations. It was not taken under any foreign influence".

Question: When did Musharraf give an anti-Islamism speech?
Answer: 12 January 2002

Question: What did Musharraf say he'd combat?
Answer: Islamic extremism and lawlessness within Pakistan

Question: What did Musharraf ban?
Answer: militant organizations

Question: What did Musharraf say his ban wasn't influenced by?
Answer: foreign influence

Question: Who gave a speech for Islamic extremism?

Question: When were the militant organizations banned?

Question: What was extremism committed to rooting out?

Question: Who was involved in the consultations?

Question: What would be allowed to give itself a new name?
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In 2002, the Musharraf-led government took a firm stand against the jihadi organizations and groups promoting extremism, and arrested Maulana Masood Azhar, head of the Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, chief of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, and took dozens of activists into custody. An official ban was imposed on the groups on 12 January. Later that year, the Saudi born Zayn al-Abidn Muhammed Hasayn Abu Zubaydah was arrested by Pakistani officials during a series of joint U.S.-Pakistan raids. Zubaydah is said to have been a high-ranking al-Qaeda official with the title of operations chief and in charge of running al-Qaeda training camps. Other prominent al-Qaeda members were arrested in the following two years, namely Ramzi bin al-Shibh, who is known to have been a financial backer of al-Qaeda operations, and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who at the time of his capture was the third highest-ranking official in al-Qaeda and had been directly in charge of the planning for the 11 September attacks.

Question: When did Musharraf arrest Maulana Masood Azhar?
Answer: 2002

Question: What group did Maulana Masood Azhar lead?
Answer: Jaish-e-Mohammed

Question: What group did Hafiz Muhammad Saeed lead?
Answer: Lashkar-e-Taiba

Question: What nationality is Zayn al-Abidn Muhammed Hasayn Abu Zubaydah?
Answer: Saudi

Question: Which third-highest-ranking al-Qaeda officer was captured?
Answer: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

Question: Who led all of the jihadi organizations?

Question: How many government officials were taken into custody?

Question: What was the name of the Pakistani official that performed a number of raids?

Question: What is the nationality of Ramzi bin al-Shibh?

Question: What was the rank of Ramzi bin al-Shibh?
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The use of drones by the Central Intelligence Agency in Pakistan to carry out operations associated with the Global War on Terror sparks debate over sovereignty and the laws of war. The U.S. Government uses the CIA rather than the U.S. Air Force for strikes in Pakistan in order to avoid breaching sovereignty through military invasion. The United States was criticized by[according to whom?] a report on drone warfare and aerial sovereignty for abusing the term 'Global War on Terror' to carry out military operations through government agencies without formally declaring war.

Question: What controversial technology did the US use in Pakistan?
Answer: drones

Question: Which US agency runs its drones in Pakistan?
Answer: the Central Intelligence Agency

Question: Why did the US use the CIA instead of the Air Force to run drones?
Answer: to avoid breaching sovereignty through military invasion

Question: Abuse of what term allowed a lack of a formal war declaration?
Answer: Global War on Terror

Question: What does the US Government use the Air Force for?

Question: What did the United States criticize?

Question: What does the Pakistan use for airstrikes?

Question: What term was Pakistan accused of abusing?

Question: The term Global War on Terror required formally doing what?
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In a 'Letter to American People' written by Osama bin Laden in 2002, he stated that one of the reasons he was fighting America is because of its support of India on the Kashmir issue. While on a trip to Delhi in 2002, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld suggested that Al-Qaeda was active in Kashmir, though he did not have any hard evidence. An investigation in 2002 unearthed evidence that Al-Qaeda and its affiliates were prospering in Pakistan-administered Kashmir with tacit approval of Pakistan's National Intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence. A team of Special Air Service and Delta Force was sent into Indian-administered Kashmir in 2002 to hunt for Osama bin Laden after reports that he was being sheltered by the Kashmiri militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. U.S. officials believed that Al-Qaeda was helping organize a campaign of terror in Kashmir in order to provoke conflict between India and Pakistan. Fazlur Rehman Khalil, the leader of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, signed al-Qaeda's 1998 declaration of holy war, which called on Muslims to attack all Americans and their allies. Indian sources claimed that In 2006, Al-Qaeda claimed they had established a wing in Kashmir; this worried the Indian government. India also claimed that Al-Qaeda has strong ties with the Kashmir militant groups Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan. While on a visit to Pakistan in January 2010, U.S. Defense secretary Robert Gates stated that Al-Qaeda was seeking to destabilize the region and planning to provoke a nuclear war between India and Pakistan.

Question: Who wrote 'Letter to American People' in 2002?
Answer: Osama bin Laden

Question: Who was the US Secretary of Defense in 2002?
Answer: Donald Rumsfeld

Question: Which group did Rumsfeld think was active in Kashmir?
Answer: Al-Qaeda

Question: What teams hunted for Bin Laden in Kashmir in 2002?
Answer: Special Air Service and Delta Force

Question: Who led the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen?
Answer: Fazlur Rehman Khalil

Question: Who did India support on the Kashmir issue?

Question: What was the name of the document Donald Rumsfeld wrote?

Question: Who did the Kashmiri militant group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen attempt to hunt down?

Question: Who is the leader of Kashmir?

Question: Pakistan claimed al-Qaeda had close ties with what area?
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In September 2009, a U.S. Drone strike reportedly killed Ilyas Kashmiri, who was the chief of Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, a Kashmiri militant group associated with Al-Qaeda. Kashmiri was described by Bruce Riedel as a 'prominent' Al-Qaeda member, while others described him as the head of military operations for Al-Qaeda. Waziristan had now become the new battlefield for Kashmiri militants, who were now fighting NATO in support of Al-Qaeda. On 8 July 2012, Al-Badar Mujahideen, a breakaway faction of Kashmir centric terror group Hizbul Mujahideen, on conclusion of their two-day Shuhada Conference called for mobilisation of resources for continuation of jihad in Kashmir.

Question: Who did a US drone kill in Sep 2009?
Answer: Ilyas Kashmiri

Question: What group did Ilyas Kashmiri lead?
Answer: Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami

Question: After 2009, who began fighting in Waziristan?
Answer: Kashmiri militants

Question: What group did Al-Badar Mujahideen break away from?
Answer: Hizbul Mujahideen

Question: What did Al-Badar Mujahideen call for in 2012?
Answer: mobilisation of resources for continuation of jihad in Kashmir

Question: Who ordered the SUS Drone strike in September 2009?

Question: What group was Bruce Riedel the leader of?

Question: What faction broke away from Al-Badar Mujahideen?

Question: How long was Waziristan the new battlefield?

Question: When did terror groups call to end the jihad in Kashmir?
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In the following months, NATO took a wide range of measures to respond to the threat of terrorism. On 22 November 2002, the member states of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) decided on a Partnership Action Plan against Terrorism, which explicitly states, "EAPC States are committed to the protection and promotion of fundamental freedoms and human rights, as well as the rule of law, in combating terrorism." NATO started naval operations in the Mediterranean Sea designed to prevent the movement of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction as well as to enhance the security of shipping in general called Operation Active Endeavour.

Question: Who declared the Partnership Action Plan against Terrorism?
Answer: member states of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council

Question: When was the Partnership Action Plan against Terrorism announced?
Answer: 22 November 2002

Question: Where did NATO begin naval operations after 2002?
Answer: the Mediterranean Sea

Question: What was NATO's operation in the Mediterranean called?
Answer: Operation Active Endeavour

Question: What did terrorism respond to?

Question: What were NATO's efforts to respond to terrorism called?

Question: What council decided to start operations in the mediterranean Sea in November 2002?

Question: Where is the EAPC located?

Question: What day did Operation Active Endeavour start?
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Support for the U.S. cooled when America made clear its determination to invade Iraq in late 2002. Even so, many of the "coalition of the willing" countries that unconditionally supported the U.S.-led military action have sent troops to Afghanistan, particular neighboring Pakistan, which has disowned its earlier support for the Taliban and contributed tens of thousands of soldiers to the conflict. Pakistan was also engaged in the War in North-West Pakistan (Waziristan War). Supported by U.S. intelligence, Pakistan was attempting to remove the Taliban insurgency and al-Qaeda element from the northern tribal areas.

Question: What were the countries who supported the US's post-9/11 invasions called?
Answer: the "coalition of the willing"

Question: Which country disavowed the Taliban?
Answer: Pakistan

Question: How many soldiers did Pakistan contribute to fight the Taliban?
Answer: tens of thousands

Question: Where in Pakistan is Waziristan?
Answer: North-West

Question: Where did Pakistan try to remove the Taliban and Al-Qaeda?
Answer: northern tribal areas

Question: What action made support for the US increase?

Question: Which country refused to send troops into Afghanistan?

Question: How many soldiers did the coalition of the willing contribute?

Question: What was the war in the northern tribal areas called?

Question: What was Afghanistan attempting with the US's help?
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The British 16th Air Assault Brigade (later reinforced by Royal Marines) formed the core of the force in southern Afghanistan, along with troops and helicopters from Australia, Canada and the Netherlands. The initial force consisted of roughly 3,300 British, 2,000 Canadian, 1,400 from the Netherlands and 240 from Australia, along with special forces from Denmark and Estonia and small contingents from other nations. The monthly supply of cargo containers through Pakistani route to ISAF in Afghanistan is over 4,000 costing around 12 billion in Pakistani Rupees.

Question: What was the primary fighting force in southern Afghanistan?
Answer: The British 16th Air Assault Brigade

Question: Which nations besides the UK contributed significantly to the southern Afghanistan fight?
Answer: Australia, Canada and the Netherlands

Question: How many troops did Canada send initially?
Answer: 2,000

Question: How many troops did Australia send initially?
Answer: 240

Question: How many troops did the Netherlands send initially?
Answer: 1,400

Question: What was the British 16th Air Assault Brigade later called?

Question: How many special forces troops were there from Denmark?

Question: How many Pakistanis were involved?

Question: How many British troops helped invade Denmark?

Question: What type of vehicle did Estonia supply?
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In addition to military efforts abroad, in the aftermath of 9/11 the Bush Administration increased domestic efforts to prevent future attacks. Various government bureaucracies that handled security and military functions were reorganized. A new cabinet-level agency called the United States Department of Homeland Security was created in November 2002 to lead and coordinate the largest reorganization of the U.S. federal government since the consolidation of the armed forces into the Department of Defense.[citation needed]

Question: What new agency did Bush create after 9/11?
Answer: Department of Homeland Security

Question: When was the DHS created?
Answer: November 2002

Question: What other massive agency's creation was the DHS compared to?
Answer: the Department of Defense

Question: What did the DHS focus on?
Answer: domestic efforts to prevent future attacks

Question: What did the Bush administration do instead of military efforts?

Question: What Bush agency was created before 9/11?

Question: When were the armed forces consolidated?

Question: What was consolidated into the Department of Homeland Security?

Question: Which administration created the Department of Defense?
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The USA PATRIOT Act of October 2001 dramatically reduces restrictions on law enforcement agencies' ability to search telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records; eases restrictions on foreign intelligence gathering within the United States; expands the Secretary of the Treasury's authority to regulate financial transactions, particularly those involving foreign individuals and entities; and broadens the discretion of law enforcement and immigration authorities in detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts. The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act's expanded law enforcement powers could be applied. A new Terrorist Finance Tracking Program monitored the movements of terrorists' financial resources (discontinued after being revealed by The New York Times). Global telecommunication usage, including those with no links to terrorism, is being collected and monitored through the NSA electronic surveillance program. The Patriot Act is still in effect.

Question: When was the Patriot Act passed?
Answer: October 2001

Question: What did the Patriot Act make it easier for law enforcement to search?
Answer: telephone, e-mail communications, medical, financial, and other records

Question: What did the Patriot Act make it easier to do to immigrants?
Answer: detaining and deporting immigrants suspected of terrorism-related acts

Question: How was the definition of terrorism expanded by the Patriot Act?
Answer: to include domestic terrorism

Question: Which newspaper revealed the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program?
Answer: The New York Times

Question: What bill increased restrictions on law enforcement agencies?

Question: What bill did the Secretary of the Treasury pass?

Question: What year was the Terrorist Finance Tracking program discontinued?

Question: What program does the NSA currently use to monitor financial activity?

Question: What newspaper uncovered the Patriot Act?
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Political interest groups have stated that these laws remove important restrictions on governmental authority, and are a dangerous encroachment on civil liberties, possible unconstitutional violations of the Fourth Amendment. On 30 July 2003, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the first legal challenge against Section 215 of the Patriot Act, claiming that it allows the FBI to violate a citizen's First Amendment rights, Fourth Amendment rights, and right to due process, by granting the government the right to search a person's business, bookstore, and library records in a terrorist investigation, without disclosing to the individual that records were being searched. Also, governing bodies in a number of communities have passed symbolic resolutions against the act.

Question: When did the ACLU first challenge the Patriot Act?
Answer: 30 July 2003

Question: What rights did the ACLU say the Patriot Act violated?
Answer: First Amendment rights, Fourth Amendment rights, and right to due process

Question: What did Section 215 of the Patriot Act allow the FBI to search?
Answer: a person's business, bookstore, and library records

Question: Who passed symbolic resolutions against the Patriot Act?
Answer: governing bodies in a number of communities

Question: What did the ACLU violate?

Question: When was Section 215 written?

Question: What has governmental authority said the laws remove restrictions from?

Question: What did Section 215 allow the ACLU to inspect?

Question: Who sued the ACLU?
War_on_Terror

In 2005, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1624 concerning incitement to commit acts of terrorism and the obligations of countries to comply with international human rights laws. Although both resolutions require mandatory annual reports on counter-terrorism activities by adopting nations, the United States and Israel have both declined to submit reports. In the same year, the United States Department of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a planning document, by the name "National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism", which stated that it constituted the "comprehensive military plan to prosecute the Global War on Terror for the Armed Forces of the United States...including the findings and recommendations of the 9/11 Commission and a rigorous examination with the Department of Defense".

Question: What terrorism-related resolution did the UN Security Council adopt in 2005?
Answer: Resolution 1624

Question: Which countries haven't submitted the required reports to the UN Security Council?
Answer: the United States and Israel

Question: What plan did the DoD release in 2005?
Answer: National Military Strategic Plan for the War on Terrorism

Question: What did Resolution 1624 try to protect?
Answer: international human rights laws

Question: What year did Israel adopt Resolution 1964?

Question: What did the UN Security Council decline to offer reports for?

Question: What document did the Israeli Department of Defense publish?

Question: Which two countries submitted annual reports?

Question: What US agency released Resolution 1624?
War_on_Terror

Criticism of the War on Terror addresses the issues, morality, efficiency, economics, and other questions surrounding the War on Terror and made against the phrase itself, calling it a misnomer. The notion of a "war" against "terrorism" has proven highly contentious, with critics charging that it has been exploited by participating governments to pursue long-standing policy/military objectives, reduce civil liberties, and infringe upon human rights. It is argued that the term war is not appropriate in this context (as in War on Drugs), since there is no identifiable enemy, and that it is unlikely international terrorism can be brought to an end by military means.

Question: What phrase has been called a misnomer?
Answer: War on Terror

Question: What has the 'war on terror' been used as an excuse for?
Answer: to pursue long-standing policy/military objectives, reduce civil liberties, and infringe upon human rights

Question: Which other misnamed 'war' has 'war on terror' been compared to?
Answer: War on Drugs

Question: What is the likely fate of the 'war on terror'?
Answer: it is unlikely international terrorism can be brought to an end by military means

Question: What is another name for War on Drugs?

Question: What is most likely to be ended by military means?

Question: What has the War on Drugs been used as an excuse for?

Question: What term is appropriate for one with no identifiable enemy?
War_on_Terror

Other critics, such as Francis Fukuyama, note that "terrorism" is not an enemy, but a tactic; calling it a "war on terror", obscures differences between conflicts such as anti-occupation insurgents and international mujahideen. With a military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan and its associated collateral damage Shirley Williams maintains this increases resentment and terrorist threats against the West. There is also perceived U.S. hypocrisy, media-induced hysteria, and that differences in foreign and security policy have damaged America's image in most of the world.

Question: What flaw in the 'war on terror' name did Francis Fukuyama point out?
Answer: "terrorism" is not an enemy, but a tactic

Question: What does the 'war on terror' name obscure?
Answer: differences between conflicts such as anti-occupation insurgents and international mujahideen

Question: Who said the US's presence in Iraq increases resentment and terrorists?
Answer: Shirley Williams

Question: What fed US hysteria about terrorism?
Answer: media

Question: What has the 'war on terror' done to the US's international image?
Answer: damaged

Question: What does Shirley Williams call terrorism instead of an enemy?

Question: Who said the military presence has decreased resentment?

Question: What has damaged the image of Iraq in the world?

Question: What critic obscured differences between conflicts?

Question: Most of the world has agreed on what kinds of policies?
Labour_Party_(UK)

Labour runs a minority government in the Welsh Assembly under Carwyn Jones, is the largest opposition party in the Scottish Parliament and has twenty MEPs in the European Parliament, sitting in the Socialists and Democrats Group. The party also organises in Northern Ireland, but does not contest elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly. The Labour Party is a full member of the Party of European Socialists and Progressive Alliance, and holds observer status in the Socialist International. In September 2015, Jeremy Corbyn was elected Leader of the Labour Party.

Question: Who runs the Welsh Assembly?
Answer: Carwyn Jones

Question: What is the largest opposition party in the Scottish Parliament?
Answer: The Labour Party

Question: How many MEPs does it have in the British Parliament?
Answer: twenty

Question: What year was Jeremy Corbyn elected?
Answer: 2015

Question: What runs a majority government in the Welsh Assembly?

Question: What is the smallest opposition party in the Scottish Parliament?

Question: Where does the Labour Party not organize?

Question: Who was leader of the Labour Party before 2015?

Question: Where does the Labour Party have fourty MEPs?
Labour_Party_(UK)

The Labour Party's origins lie in the late 19th century, when it became apparent that there was a need for a new political party to represent the interests and needs of the urban proletariat, a demographic which had increased in number and had recently been given franchise. Some members of the trades union movement became interested in moving into the political field, and after further extensions of the voting franchise in 1867 and 1885, the Liberal Party endorsed some trade-union sponsored candidates. The first Lib–Lab candidate to stand was George Odger in the Southwark by-election of 1870. In addition, several small socialist groups had formed around this time, with the intention of linking the movement to political policies. Among these were the Independent Labour Party, the intellectual and largely middle-class Fabian Society, the Marxist Social Democratic Federation and the Scottish Labour Party.

Question: About when did the Labour Parry start?
Answer: late 19th century

Question: when was george odger elected?
Answer: 1870

Question: When did it become obvious that the rural proletariat needed a new political party?

Question: What demographic had decreased in number?

Question: What years was the voting franchise shrunk?

Question: Who was the last Lib-Lab candidate to stand?

Question: What socialist group did not form around this time?
Labour_Party_(UK)

In 1899, a Doncaster member of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants, Thomas R. Steels, proposed in his union branch that the Trade Union Congress call a special conference to bring together all left-wing organisations and form them into a single body that would sponsor Parliamentary candidates. The motion was passed at all stages by the TUC, and the proposed conference was held at the Memorial Hall on Farringdon Street on 26 and 27 February 1900. The meeting was attended by a broad spectrum of working-class and left-wing organisations — trades unions represented about one third of the membership of the TUC delegates.

Question: What year did Thomas R. Steels propose the single body union branch?
Answer: 1899

Question: Where was Thomas R. Steels a member?
Answer: Doncaster

Question: WHere was the proposed conference held?
Answer: Memorial Hall

Question: Who proposed a special conference to bring all right-wing organisations together?

Question: What group did not pass the motion?

Question: Where was the conference help before 1900?

Question: What was attended by only a narrow spectrum of organizations?

Question: What represented two thirds of the TUC delegates?
Labour_Party_(UK)

After a debate, the 129 delegates passed Hardie's motion to establish "a distinct Labour group in Parliament, who shall have their own whips, and agree upon their policy, which must embrace a readiness to cooperate with any party which for the time being may be engaged in promoting legislation in the direct interests of labour." This created an association called the Labour Representation Committee (LRC), meant to coordinate attempts to support MPs sponsored by trade unions and represent the working-class population. It had no single leader, and in the absence of one, the Independent Labour Party nominee Ramsay MacDonald was elected as Secretary. He had the difficult task of keeping the various strands of opinions in the LRC united. The October 1900 "Khaki election" came too soon for the new party to campaign effectively; total expenses for the election only came to £33. Only 15 candidatures were sponsored, but two were successful; Keir Hardie in Merthyr Tydfil and Richard Bell in Derby.

Question: How many delegates passed the motion?
Answer: 129

Question: Who was elected Secretary?
Answer: Ramsay MacDonald

Question: How many candidates were sponsored in the 1900 electrion?
Answer: 15

Question: What did the 129 delegates do before a debate?

Question: What association was meant to disorganize attempts to support MPs sponsored by trade unions?

Question: What organization had a single leader?

Question: Who was an unsuccessful candidate?

Question: What was an easy task for Ramsay MacDonald?
Labour_Party_(UK)

Support for the LRC was boosted by the 1901 Taff Vale Case, a dispute between strikers and a railway company that ended with the union being ordered to pay £23,000 damages for a strike. The judgement effectively made strikes illegal since employers could recoup the cost of lost business from the unions. The apparent acquiescence of the Conservative Government of Arthur Balfour to industrial and business interests (traditionally the allies of the Liberal Party in opposition to the Conservative's landed interests) intensified support for the LRC against a government that appeared to have little concern for the industrial proletariat and its problems.

Question: What boosted support in 1901?
Answer: Taff Vale Case

Question: What was the Taft Vale Case?
Answer: a dispute between strikers and a railway company

Question: From this case, what happened?
Answer: made strikes illegal

Question: How much were they ordered to pay in damages for the strike?
Answer: £23,000

Question: What hurt support for the LRC?

Question: How much did the railway company have to pay the union?

Question: What made strikes effectively legal?

Question: What appeared to be very concerned with the industrial proletariat?

Question: What refused to listen to industrial and business interests?
Labour_Party_(UK)

In their first meeting after the election the group's Members of Parliament decided to adopt the name "The Labour Party" formally (15 February 1906). Keir Hardie, who had taken a leading role in getting the party established, was elected as Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party (in effect, the Leader), although only by one vote over David Shackleton after several ballots. In the party's early years the Independent Labour Party (ILP) provided much of its activist base as the party did not have individual membership until 1918 but operated as a conglomerate of affiliated bodies. The Fabian Society provided much of the intellectual stimulus for the party. One of the first acts of the new Liberal Government was to reverse the Taff Vale judgement.

Question: Who overturned the Taft Vale judgement?
Answer: Liberal Government

Question: Who was elected Chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party?
Answer: Keir Hardie

Question: How many votes did Keir Hardie win by?
Answer: one vote

Question: Who was Keir Hardie's opponent?
Answer: David Shackleton

Question: What name did the group adopt during their last meeting?

Question: What name did the group adopt before 1906?

Question: Who had not helped the party to become established?

Question: What provided the party's activist base in the party's later years?

Question: What was one of the last acts of the new Liberal Government?