Tora Bora

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Coordinates: 34°07′00″N 70°13′00″E / 34.116667°N 70.216667°E / 34.116667; 70.216667

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

Tora Bora.

Aerial view, 3D computer generated image. Tora Bora is in the upper right quadrant.

Tora Bora (Pashto: توره بوره, “black dust” ), known locally as Spīn Ghar, is a cave complex situated in the White Mountains (Safed Koh) of eastern Afghanistan, in the Pachir Wa Agam District of Nangarhar province, approximately 50 km (31 mi) west of the Khyber Pass and 10 km (6.2 mi) north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan.

During the US invasion of Afghanistan it was one of the strongholds of the Taliban and its Arab Al Qaeda allies. As the suspected hide-out of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, it was the location of the December 2001 Battle of Tora Bora.

[edit] References

• Hadden, Robert Lee. 2005. "Adits, Caves, Karizi-Qanats, and Tunnels in Afghanistan: An Annotated Bibliography"