Plans to make the award, which is given only for acts of valour in action, reflect the level of high-risk, close-combat fighting in the Tora Bora caves in eastern Afghanistan between the elite ...

TORA BORA, Afghanistan (CNN) --Afghan fighters were conducting cave-by-cave searches Tuesday, looking for al Qaeda fighters and Osama bin Laden, as 15 of bin Laden's soldiers arrived in Kandahar ...

But fighting raged on in the cave-riddled Tora Bora mountains in eastern Afghanistan, where mainly Arab fighters aligned with bin Laden’s al Qaeda network of Islamic militants put up fierce resistance ...