The Battle of Tora Bora, involving U. S., British and Northern Alliance forces took place in December 2001 to further destroy the Taliban and suspected al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Tora Bora (, ), known locally as Spīn Ghar (, ), is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains ( Safed Koh ) ( Safed Koh is the Dari form for Spin Ghar ) of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, approximately west of the Khyber Pass and north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA ) in Pakistan.

Tora Bora was known to be an important area for the Taliban and insurgency against the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

Tora Bora and the surrounding White Mountain range had natural caverns formed by streams eating into the limestone.

Tora Bora.

As the suspected hide-out of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, it was the location of the December 2001 Battle of Tora Bora.

Tora Bora was variously described by the western media to be an ' impregnable cave fortress ' housing 2000 men complete with a hospital, a hydroelectric power plant, offices, a hotel, arms and ammunition stores, roads large enough to drive a tank into, and elaborate tunnel and ventilation systems.

When Tora Bora was eventually captured by the U. S. and Afghan troops, no traces of the supposed ' fortress ' were found despite painstaking searches in the surrounding areas.

Tora Bora turned out to be a system of small natural caves housing at most, 200 fighters.

It was also reported that in 2007, U. S. intelligence suspected that Osama bin Laden planned to meet with top Al Qaeda and Taliban commanders at Tora Bora prior to the launch of a possible attack in Europe or even the United States.

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This operation was the first large-scale battle in the United States War in Afghanistan since the Battle of Tora Bora in December 2001.

The expectation was that fighters, as in the case of Tora Bora several months earlier, would flee in the face of an assault and that blocker groups would simply be able to round them up.

During the campaign in Tora Bora in particular, the United States believed that " vast underground complexes ," deeply buried, were protecting opposing forces.

In November 2001 the SBS had an extensive role in the invasion of Afghanistan and were involved in the Battle of Tora Bora.

Gardēz is located at 2, 300m above sea-level, being the third highest capital of an Afghan province, and is not far from the Tora Bora region of caves and tunnels.

It recounts the battle of Tora Bora and urges Muslims to fight the United States and to overthrow the Iraq government of Saddam Hussein.

The first US team to enter the Tora Bora mountain range

In another incident Gul Dukat is driven insane when his daughter Tora Ziyal dies.

Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is portrayed at the very end of the 1970 film Tora!

Tora !, and in the 2001 film Pearl Harbor, as saying after his attack on Pearl Harbor, " I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.

He is recorded as the child of Tora Torbergsdatter, who married Harald in 1048.

He later rehabilitates, never returning to his evil ways, but his ego is never " shot down " which makes him an easy target to manipulate as evidenced in the album Tora Torapa.

The Dumalla ( full name Chand Tora Dumalla ) is the style of turban generally worn by Sikhs in battle.

The " Chand Tora " is a metal symbol consisting of a crescent sword and a double edged sword, held in place at the front of the turban by a woven chainmail cord tied in a pattern within the turban to protect the head from slashing weapons.

The purpose of the Tora is to keep the dastaar together.

He is known for directing samurai period and yakuza films such as Battles Without Honor and Humanity ( 1973 ), the Japanese portion of the Hollywood film Tora!

The most well-known sake they produce is called " Aki Tora " ( 安芸虎 ), which is not named after the Hanshin Tigers but instead, after Kunitora Aki who resided in the Aki Castle.

Their father, Tommy, is a school vice principal and also played for Modo Hockey in the 1960s, while his mother, Tora, is a nurse.

Their father, Tommy, is a school vice principal who played for Modo Hockey in the 1960s ; their mother, Tora, is a nurse.

The story-teller is Ulysses Paxton, protagonist of the previous novel, The Master Mind of Mars, but this story is not about him ; rather, it is the tale of Tan Hadron of Hastor, a lowly, poor padwar ( a low-ranking officer ) who is in love with the beautiful, haughty Sanoma Tora, daughter of Tor Hatan, a minor but rich noble.

Then Sanoma Tora is kidnapped, and the novel moves into high gear.

In the 1970 film Tora, Tora, Tora, Konoe was portrayed by Japanese actor Koreya Senda.

Tora !, once Akira Kurosawa left the film.

Tora Bora's location in relation to Jalalabad and other cities in the provinces of Nangarhar, Kabul and Peshawar.

Tora !, Richard Fleischer, stated that while Yamamoto may never have said those words, the film's producer, Elmo Williams, had found the line written in Yamamoto's diary.