The white mountains of Afghanistan are beautiful this time of year. Snow blankets the peaks from Kabul to the Khyber Pass, smothering the ancient smugglers’ footpaths that lead out of the country and ...

Although a cave-to-cave search was under way to flush out any remaining al Qaeda resistance and border and coastal patrols intensified to catch those trying to escape, the fierce war in Afghanistan's ...

The white mountains of Afghanistan are beautiful this time of year. Snow blankets the peaks from Kabul to the Khyber Pass, smothering the ancient smugglers’ footpaths that lead out of the country and ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Al Qaeda-backed insurgents have opened a new front on the eastern border of Afghanistan, reoccupying the Tora Bora cave complex from which Osama bin Laden escaped the closing net ...

Even as the Saudi fighter spoke, American B-52s were bombing the last Qaeda stronghold of Tora Bora. Afghan fighters had flushed the Qaeda guerrillas out of two main caves and into the Agam and Wazir ...

Anti-Taliban forces step up cave warfare efforts to search for al-Qaida leaders in Afghanistan. For more on the challenges of cave warfare, we turn now to four guests. Jack Shroder is a professor of ...

TORA BORA, Afghanistan — Coalition forces struck hard by land and air at the last stronghold of Al Qaeda fighters here Tuesday, triggering at least a temporary cease-fire and a promise by some of them ...

Islamic State fighters have captured Tora Bora, a mountain cave complex in eastern Afghanistan that was once the hideout of Osama bin Laden, officials said Thursday, despite pressure on the jihadists ...

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 ...

Remember, a few weeks back, when we thought the labyrinthine caves of Tora Bora were, as a Time headline blared, a “Death Trap”? Nearly everybody considered them ...

Gen. Tommy Franks, head of the U.S. Central Command, gestures at his office during an interview Monday at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla. The search yielded no clear clues to where Osama bin ...