Battle of Tora Bora

Battle of Tora Bora
Part of the War in Afghanistan
Location of Tora Bora in Afghanistan, near the Pakistani border. 34°07′N 70°13′E / 34.117°N 70.217°E / 34.117; 70.217
Date December 6, 2001 – December 17, 2001 Location Pachir Wa Agam District, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan Result Failure to kill or capture Osama Bin Laden.
Belligerents
United States  United Kingdom  Germany Northern Alliance	Taliban al-Qaeda 055 Brigade Turkistan Islamic Party
Commanders and leaders
Tommy Franks Michael Boyce Reinhard Günzel Bismillah Khan Hazrat Ali Abdul Zahir Qadir Mohammed Zaman	Osama bin Laden Mohammed Omar Abdul Ghani Baradar Mohammed Abdul Kabir Saif-ur-Rehman Mansoor Sufi Muhammad
Strength
~50 Members of U.S. 1st SFOD-D others from CIA SAD 5th Special Forces Group 160th SOAR Kommando Spezialkräfte Special Boat Service other coalition forces (aircraft) ~100–1,000 Northern Alliance fighters	~300–1,000
Casualties and losses
Coalition: None Northern Alliance: Unknown	200 killed

Taliban
al-Qaeda

The Battle of Tora Bora was a military engagement that took place in Afghanistan from December 6, 2001 to December 17, 2001, during the opening stages of the War in Afghanistan launched by the United States following the September 11 attacks. The U.S. and its allies believed that Osama bin Laden, the founder of al-Qaeda, was hiding in the mountains at Tora Bora.

US and allied forces overran Taliban and al-Qaeda positions and heard bin Laden's voice in intercepted radio transmissions several times, but they failed to kill or capture him. Bin Laden escaped to the Federated Tribal Areas of Pakistan, where he stayed for nearly a decade before being located and killed by Navy SEALs of the United States Navy Special Warfare Development Group in May 2011.

Tora Bora (Pashto: تورا بورا‎black cave) is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains of eastern Afghanistan, near the Khyber Pass.

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