W A S H I N G T O N, March 18 -- Operation Anaconda, the biggest U.S. military ground offensive in Afghanistan, is over, a U.S. military official said today. "Operation Anaconda is complete," Air ...

B A G R A M  A I R  B A S E, Afghanistan, March 22 -- Operation Anaconda began in the dead of the night on March 2 and for the next 16 days, U.S. infantrymen from the 101st Airborne Division ...

GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- To some veteran Afghan commanders, the recent U.S. offensive against al-Qaida fighters in eastern Afghanistan failed because most of them got away. Moreover, they say, this ...

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 ...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan (AP) - The commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan declared Monday that the operation to destroy Taliban and al-Qaida in the eastern mountains was "an unqualified and absolute ...

We walk through Operation Anaconda from the planning phase to the final sweep, following how a mission built on faulty intelligence unraveled once troops hit the valley. What was expected to be a ...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan — Hundreds of weary U.S. soldiers descended from the Afghan mountains Sunday after a grueling eight-day battle against enemy holdouts. U.S. bombers pounded the caves were the ...