In the early stages of the Battle of Tora Bora, a request was placed by Gary Berntsen for 800 United States Army Rangers. In American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden, Berntsen recalled that their forces ...

US-backed Afghans yesterday said they seized the last Al Qaeda posts in Tora Bora, but there's no sign of its leader.

In 2001, a small U.S. special operations force had won extraordinary victories in Afghanistan and closed in on Bin Laden before high-level blunders allowed him to escape into Pakistan.

But the Battle of Tora Bora—as the showdown between allied forces and bin Laden would come to be known—did not end with bin Laden's death, but with his escape.

The Bush administration has concluded that Osama bin Laden was present during the battle for Tora Bora late last year and that failure to commit U.S. ground troops to hunt him was its gravest ...

The questions came in response to a Washington Post story that bin Laden had escaped the battle of Tora Bora after the U.S. decided it would not commit American ground troops to the operation.

the battle of tora bora December 19, 2009 More than 15 years ago 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.

The battle around Afghanistan's mountainous eastern region of Tora Bora seems to be winding down. But the whereabouts of suspected 11 September mastermind Osama bin Laden remain a mystery.

The Tora Bora mountains hide a warren of caves in which al Qaeda militants led by bin Laden hid from U.S. coalition forces in 2001, after the Taliban fled Kabul and before he fled to neighboring ...

Osama bin Laden is personally leading about 1,000 fighters defending his mountain... Bin Laden "leading 1,000 men" in Tora Bora battle Chron Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...