| 10 August 2005 | RAF Harrier GR7As, part of the Joint Force Harrier based at RAF Cottesmore, are playing a major role in southern Afghanistan. The Harriers, deployed in Afghanistan since September 2004, are constantly engaged in supporting both the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in rebuilding Afghanistan and Operation Enduring Freedom in the south of the country. |
| 5 August 2005 | Minister for Armed Forces, Rt Hon Adam Ingram MP, has been visiting British military personnel deployed on operations in Afghanistan. |
| 10 June 2005 | John Reid gave a speech to the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in Brussels on Counter Narcotics: Drug Trafficking in and Around Afghanistan. |
| 4 March 2005 | Over the next 2 days Harrier GR7As from IV(AC) Sqn will deploy from HMS INVINCIBLE to Kandahar Air Base in Afghanistan in support of Operation HERRICK. |
| February 2005 | Command of ISAF is given to General Ethem Erdagi of Turkey. |
| 24 September 2004 | A detachment of Harrier GR7s flew out from RAF Cottesmore for Afghanistan to provide a reconnaissance and close air support capability for coalition forces and the International Security Assistance Force, particularly during the period of the Afghan presidential elections. |
| 25 August 2004 | The Ministry of Defence announced that a detachment of six RAF Harrier GR7 aircraft would be deployed to Kandahar in Afghanistan for an initial period of nine months to provide reconnaissance and close air support to coalition forces and the International Security Assistance Force. |
| 7 August 2004 | Command of ISAF is given to General Jean-Louis Py, commander of Eurocorps, a multinational rapid reaction force composed by units from France, Germany, Spain, Belgium and Luxemburg. |
| 27 February 2004 | Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram presented a fleet of 12 armoured trucks to the HALO Trust, bringing to more than 100 the number of military vehicles gifted to the mine-clearance charity in the past four years. |
| 9 February 2004 | Command of ISAF is given to Lieutenant General Rick Hillier, Canada, with Major General Werner Korte of Germany as deputy |
| 28 January 2004 | Private Jonathan Kitulagoda was killed, and four soldiers injured, by an apparent suicide bomb attack in Afghanistan. Private Kitulagoda was aged 23 and came from Plymouth where he was a student. A member of the Rifle Volunteers, a Territorial Army battalion, he was serving in Kabul with the International Security Assistance Force. |
| 11 August 2003 | ISAF was under the command of NATO, led by NATO Lieutenant General Goetz Gliemeroth, with Canadian Army Major General Andrew Leslie as his deputy. |
| 8 May 2003 | The UK will lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e-Sharif, Geoff Hoon, the Defence Secretary announced in a written statement to the House of Commons. |
| 10 February 2003 | Command of ISAF is given to Lieutenant General Norbert Van Heyst, on behalf of Germany and the Netherlands and his Deputy named as Brigadier General Bertholee of Netherlands. |
| 30 December 2002 | British troops serving in Kabul marked Christmas with the auction of a large number of Top 20 albums donated by Virgin Radio to raise over $1100 for Afghanistan's principal children's hospital, and delivered to the patients many toys donated by British families. |
| 24 December 2002 | Numerous personnel from all three of the Armed Forces will be on duty over the Christmas and New Year holiday period, either deployed on operations overseas, or providing essential services in the UK. |
| 2 December 2002 | The Ministry of Defence welcomes a UN decision to extend the deployment of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), in Kabul, for a further twelve months. |
| 26 September 2002 | RAF support aircraft flew operational sorties.
US Defense Secretary briefing |
| 16 September 2002 | RAF support aircraft flew operational sorties.
US Defense Secretary briefing |
| 5 September 2002 | RAF support aircraft flew operational sorties. An assassination attempt was made against Hamid Karzai in Kandahar, and bomb attacks carried out by terrorists in Kabul. |
| 3 September 2002 | RAF support aircraft flew operational sorties.
US Defense Secretary and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff briefing |
| 20 August 2002 | RAF support aircraft flew operational sorties.
US Defense Secretary briefing |
| 17 August 2002 | Sergeant Robert Busuttil and Corporal John Gregory both aged thirty and serving with the Royal Logistic Corps, died from gunshot wounds at the British base at Kabul International Airport. |
| 13 August 2002 | RAF support aircraft flew operational sorties.
US Defense Secretary briefing |
| 9 August 2002 | RAF support aircraft flew operational sorties.
US Defense Secretary and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff briefing |
| 7 August 2002 | RAF support aircraft flew operational sorties.
US Defense Secretary and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff briefing |
| 2 August 2002 | RAF support aircraft flew operational sorties.
Press briefing by US Department of Defense |
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