With President Barack Obama ready to disengage in Iraq and to step things up in Afghanistan, one troubling question has never gone away: How is it that Osama bin Laden could remain free, with so many ...

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 ...

TORA BORA, Afghanistan — As bombs rumbled in the dizzying mountains that ribbon the Pakistani border, anti-Taliban commander Haji Mohammed Zaman paced impatiently. On that hard, wintry December day, ...

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 ...

TORA BORA, Afghanistan — America's decisive battle against al-Qaida in Afghanistan began in early December. U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Tommy Franks told Congress in July that the attack started ...

In this excerpt from "The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and Al Qaeda," author Peter Bergen looks back at Osama bin Laden's escape from Tora Bora in December of 2001, the most ...

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 ...

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Some Al Qaeda fighters say they saw Osama bin Laden in Tora Bora as recently as two days ago. But anti-Taliban Afghan commanders like Haji Mohammed Zaman Ghamsharik believes bin Laden and his top ...

Images from the attack on Combat Outpost Inman. On the morning of March 23, 2008, an Easter Sunday, a massive blast rocked the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. Eight kilometers away at Forward Operating ...

TORA BORA, Afghanistan — America's decisive battle against al-Qaida in Afghanistan began in early December. U.S. Central Command chief Gen. Tommy Franks told Congress in July that the attack started ...