Canadian Armed Forces ISAF Afghanistan
The International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) was a multinational military mission in Afghanistan. Canada participated from 2001 to 2014.
More than 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members served in Afghanistan as part of the NATO International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) making this the largest Canadian military deployment since the Second World War.
Mandated by the United Nations, ISAF’s primary objective was to enable the Afghan government to provide effective security across the country and to develop new Afghan security forces to ensure Afghanistan would never again become a safe haven for terrorists.