The UN Security Council issued a resolution on September 18, 2001 directed towards the Taliban demanding that they hand over the terrorist Osama bin Laden and close all terrorist training camps immediately and unconditionally.

The council also referred to a resolution it adopted in December 2000 demanding that the Taliban turn over bin Laden to the United States, or to a third country, to be tried for his responsibility in the deadly bombing in 1998 of the US embassies in Dar es Salam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenia, killing more than two hundred people and wounding about 4,000. It can be argued that, since the Security Council did not explicitly authorize the use of force, the invasion of Afghanistan was a violation of the UN charter.

However, considering that the United States was attacked by elements thought to be supported by the Afghan government, the use of force in Afghanistan was considered by some people, and not only Americans, to be in self-defence, and thus, legal. Not everybody agreed however.

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