Eight years ago this month, Osama bin Laden walked out of the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan and disappeared into Pakistan. U.S. intelligence agencies have no real idea where he is today, but it ...

In the nearly 10 years since the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the U.S. has launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and entered bitter debates over interrogation techniques and renditions. This ...

The report, based in part on a little-noticed 2007 history of the Tora Bora episode by the military’s Special Operations Command, asserts that the consequences of not sending American troops in 2001 ...

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Operating in 72-hour non-stop cycles, the B-52’s involvement at the Battle of Tora Bora peaked during its most intense phase. “Our prayers were not answered. Times are dire and bad. We did not get ...

WASHINGTON As President Barack Obama vows to "finish the job" in Afghanistan by sending more troops, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has completed a detailed look back at a crucial failure ...

Newly surfaced photos of Usama bin Laden, taken in his Tora Bora hideout in the years before he launched the deadliest terror attack in U.S. history, and more than a ...

TORA BORA, Afghanistan — In the cold, thin mountain air, the soldiers stood on a rocky ridge and blasted the opposite peak. The tank turret roared, and the men pumped their fists. They smelled the ...

One evening in 1988, Masood Farivar, a 19-year-old Afghan soldier fighting in the jihad against the occupying Soviet Union, was One evening in 1988, Masood Farivar, a 19-year-old Afghan soldier ...