Seeing Osama bin Laden chuckling ghoulishly over his “achievement” on September 11 reminded most Americans why they want him dead. And many had been expecting the battle of Tora Bora to produce his ...

Trapped in al-Qaeda's Tora Bora cave network two months after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Osama bin Laden seemed prepared to die. Instead, he was allowed to escape: The United States never fielded ...

MILAWA, Afghanistan -- Slowly and incompletely, al Qaeda's secrets have been pulled from the rubble of Osama bin Laden's mountain hide-out at Tora Bora. Three teams of U.S. Special Forces, guided by ...

The man who served as Osama bin Laden’s security chief at the battle of Tora Bora triumphantly returned to his home in eastern Afghanistan today, less than two weeks after the country fell to the ...

The document, provided to The Associated Press in response to a Freedom of Information request, says the unidentified detainee "assisted in the escape of Osama bin Laden from Tora Bora." It is the ...

Associated Press WriterTORA BORA, Afghanistan (AP) -- Enemy gunners hit two Americans on Friday as their band of special forces joined Afghan guerrillas attacking an al-Qaida machine-gun nest in the ...

KABUL - Osama bin Laden is personally leading about 1,000 fighters defending his mountain strongholds in eastern Afghanistan, a Northern Alliance spokesman said on Sunday. Mohammad Amin told Reuters ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A doctor who treated wounded al-Qaida fighters at Tora Bora in Afghanistan has confirmed that Osama bin Laden was at the mountain stronghold as U.S. and Afghan forces attacked ...

TORA BORA, Afghanistan — After nine weeks of siege, Afghan tribal leaders claimed victory Sunday over al-Qaida guerrillas at their last stronghold in Afghanistan. But Osama bin Laden was nowhere to be ...

SAN JUAN, PUERTO RICO — A doctor who treated wounded al-Qaida fighters at Tora Bora in Afghanistan has confirmed Osama bin Laden was at the mountain stronghold as U.S. and Afghan forces attacked — and ...

JALALABAD, Afghanistan -- Osama bin Laden has no shortage of hiding places -- from the thickly forested region west of Kandahar to an impregnable fortress built with U.S. aid during the Afghan war ...

When the Taliban were ousted from power in Afghanistan in 2001, the hunt for Osama bin Laden began in earnest. One American in particular led the search. He was CIA commander, Gary Berntsen, who had ...