Topic summary
Battle of Shewan
United States30 members of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines
30 members of Force Recon Marines
Major operations
- Mountain Viper
- Asbury Park
- 2006 Taliban offensive
- Perth
- Chora
- Firebase Anaconda
- Shewan
- Balamorghab
- Sabzak
- Derapet
- Doan
- Kunduz (2015)
- Omari
- Tarinkot
- Kunduz (2016)
- Boz Qandahari
- Darzab (2017)
- Farah
- Darzab (2018)
- Kunar (2019–2020)
- Ghazni
- 2021 Taliban offensive
Airstrikes
- Sayyd Alma Kalay
- Uruzgan wedding
- Hyderabad
- Gora Prai
- Haska Meyna/Deh Bala
- Azizabad
- Wech Baghtu
- Granai
- Kunduz (2009)
- Uruzgan helicopter
- Sangin (2010)
- Mano Gai
- Baraki Barak
- Kapisa
- Kunar
- Kunduz hospital
- Sangin (2017)
- Nangarhar
- Kunduz madrassa
Major insurgent attacks
2002
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
- Jalalabad
- Kabul hotel
- Kabul Parliament
- Khost
- Kabul police
- Kabul Airport
- Kabul NATO
- Ghazni
- Kandahar
- Kabul Spanish embassy
- Bagram
2016
- Jalalabad
- Kabul NDS
- Kunduz-Takhar highway
- Kabul Canadian embassy
- Wardak
- Kabul Hazara protest
- Kabul University
- Kabul Defense Ministry
- Mazar-i-Sharif
- Bagram
2017
- Bombings (Jan)
- Kabul hospital
- Camp Shaheen
- Kabul (May)
- Herat (Jun)
- June Lashkargah
- Herat (Aug)
- Gardez & Ghazni
- Kabul & Ghor
- Kabul Shi'ite
2018
- Kabul hotel
- Jalalabad (Save the Children)
- Kabul ambulance
- Kabul (Mar)
- Kabul (22 Apr)
- Kabul (30 Apr)
- Jalalabad (Jul)
- Baghlan
- Kabul (Sep)
- Jalalabad (Sep)
2019
- Maidan Shar
- Camp Shorabak
- Kabul mosque
- Kabul Defense Ministry
- Ghazni
- Kabul office
- Farah
- Kabul police
- Kabul wedding
- Kabul (Sep)
- Charikar & Kabul
- Qalat
- Jalalabad
- Haska Meyna
- Bagram
2020
2021
Massacres
Other
The Battle of Shewan was a military engagement between coalition forces and Taliban insurgents that took place on August 8, 2008, near the village of Shewan in the Bala Buluk district, Farah Province, Afghanistan.
On August 8, 2008, elements from 2nd platoon, Golf Company, 2nd Battalion 7th Marines, and 2nd Platoon, 1st Force Reconnaissance Company, conducted a clearing operation of the village. After approximately eight hours of heavy combat, the coalition marines defeated approximately 250-350 Taliban fighters.