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"Operation Anaconda is complete," Air Force Gen. John Rosa said today. He stressed, however, that U.S. and allied forces were still operating in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan where Anaconda ...
But bad weather and a setback to Afghan allies on the first day of Operation Anaconda meant things didn't go according to plan, U.S. and Afghan officials involved in the battle said.
Operation Anaconda is winding down. The biggest and deadliest battle of the Afghan war, it targeted Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters dug into caves in a mountainous region not far from the Pakistani ...
U.S. military officials estimate that as many as 800 al Qaeda and Taliban fighters have been killed since Operation Anaconda began, but Afghan troops said they found only 25 bodies in the initial ...
U.S. officials say Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan is complete. But isolated engagements with al Qaeda forces there continue. US officials say 16 al Qaeda fighters were killed yesterday when U.S ...
Mr. Naylor talked about his book, [Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda], published by Berkley. Operation Anaconda took place March 2, 2002 in Afghanistan's Shahikot ...
Operation Anaconda is intended to rout hundreds of enemy fighters believed to have regrouped after the Taliban fell Dec. 7 from their spiritual base in Kandahar. Neither the former Taliban supreme ...
It was March 2, the opening moments of Operation Anaconda, in which U.S. forces attacked al Qaeda pockets in eastern Afghanistan for a week last month. U.S. troops on the battlefield were under ...
Moreover, they say, this month's Operation Anaconda, the biggest U.S.-led offensive of the Afghan war, should serve as a warning of what lies ahead if the United States wants to crush al-Qaida and ...
The least favorite, for both men, was Operation Anaconda, in Afghanistan. “Just the terrain was so rough,” never mind the fighting, Zendijias said while chewing a corn dog and some fried chicken.