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Confidence Hotel was an operational sector of the United States military's Operation Confidence hearts-and-minds mission in eastern Afghanistan. In 2012, the US Army expanded its operations eastwards and founded a forward operating base (FOB), Hotel Base, to the southeast of the village of Obeh, where the Americans sought to win hearts and minds and draw people away from the Taliban insurgency. On 1 April 2012, a Taliban cadre appeared to the east of Obeh, threatening the FOB. The Americans responded to the Taliban threat by launching an airstrike on the militants in the desert to the east of the town, killing them. On 29 April 2012, the approach of another Taliban cadre led to the base's mortars pounding the Taliban into annihilation.

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