The following are events related to the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) that took place on this day.

2001

• The 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) arrived in Afghanistan, becoming the first team of U.S. ground troops in the region. Encountering no resistance, the MEU began to set up a fortified base, “Camp Rhino,” at the airport just south of Kandahar, the last political and military stronghold of the Taliban regime. The mission, codenamed “Swift Freedom”, is to seal off the city of Kandahar, cutting off incoming supplies and escape routes. Within a day of securing the abandoned airstrip, Marine Cobra helicopters supported Navy F-14s in an attack in an armored convoy of fifteen enemy transport vehicles near the base..
• Start of Battle of Qala-i-Jangi in Afghanistan. Taliban and al-Qaeda prisoners at Qala-i-Jangi revolt.
• Sharzai and Alpha Team 583 attempt to seize the Arghistan Bridge and Kandahar Airfield. They pull back south of the bridge after encountering stiff resistance at the airport.

2006

• Operation Polar Black Diamond in Iraq

2010

• End of Operation Bulldog Bite in Afghanistan

Casualties on November 25:

• CANTAFIO, RYAN JOSEPH – November 25, 2004
• HOLMES, JEFFERY SCOTT – November 25, 2004
• MARKU, GENTIAN – November 25, 2004
• TULL, GREGORY LEROY – November 25, 2005
• LUNDELL, SCOTT BLANCHARD – November 25, 2006
• LEDSOME, MICHAEL CRAIG – November 25, 2006
• MORRIS, DANIEL MARSHALL – November 25, 2006
• WEST, JEROMY DAVID – November 25, 2006
• DAVIS, ANTHONY – November 25, 2008
• FRANK, WARREN ANDREW – November 25, 2008
• DONNELLY, WILLIAM JAMES IV – November 25, 2010
• MCGURN, TODD LANE – November 25, 2017