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

2001

• Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld announces the anti-terror campaign as “Operation Enduring Freedom,” which he says will take years to fight. The following day, Saudi Arabia ends diplomatic ties with Afghanistan’s Taliban government.

2006

• Three enlisted Marines were ordered to stand trial for the alleged April 2006 kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man in Hamandiya. The three Marines were ordered court-martialed by LtGen James N. Mattis, commanding officer of Marine Forces Central Command. Four other Marines and a Navy corpsman were still awaiting preliminary hearings in the same case to determine if they too would face court-martial.

Casualties on September 25:

• LUCERO, ROBERT LAWRENCE – September 25, 2003
• ROONEY, ROBERT EDWARD – September 25, 2003
• THOMAS, KYLE GREGORY – September 25, 2003
• JOHNSON, DAVID WAYNE – September 25, 2004
• MOXLEY, CLIFFORD LEONARD JR – September 25, 2004
• UNRUH, ROBERT OLIVER – September 25, 2004
• BAUM, TANE TRAVIS – September 25, 2005
• FLYNN, JOHN MICHAEL – September 25, 2005
• ROSS, KENNETH GRANT – September 25, 2005
• STEWART, PATRICK DANA – September 25, 2005
• STUMP, ADRIAN BOVEE – September 25, 2005
• GRAHAM, SHAWN ALEXANDER – September 25, 2005
• MELLEN, CASEY LEE – September 25, 2006
• MILAM, CHARLES LUKE – September 25, 2007
• PFEIFER, CHRISTOPHER FRANKLIN – September 25, 2007
• BROWN, KEVIN RAY – September 25, 2007
• TOMCZAK, ZACHARY BLAISE – September 25, 2007
• PHILLIPS, RONALD JR – September 25, 2008
• BRISENO ALVAREZ, FRANCISCO JAVIER JR – September 25, 2011
• ZERMENO, ANDRES – September 25, 2011