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 50km west of the Khyber Pass and 10km north of the border of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) in Pakistan. Safed Koh ("white mountain" is a range of mountains on the Pakistan - Afghanistan border up to 15620 ft (4761 m above Sea-level at Mount Pachir Wa Agam is a district in the south-east of Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan, bordering Pakistan. Nangarhar ( Pashto: ننګرهار) is one of the thirty-four Provinces of Afghanistan. The Khyber Pass, (also spelled Khaiber or Khaybar (درہ خیبر (altitude  m   ft is the Mountain pass that links Pakistan and The Federally Administered Tribal Areas ( FATA) in Pakistan are areas outside the four provinces bordering Afghanistan, comprising a region Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and
During the US invasion of Afghanistan it was one of the supposed strongholds of the Taliban. The War in Afghanistan, which began on October 7 2001 as the U The Taliban ( طالبان, also anglicised as Taleban; translation "students" is a Sunni Islamist, predominately As the suspected hide-out of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, it was the theater in December 2001 for the Battle of Tora Bora. Al-Qaeda, alternatively spelled al-Qaida, al-Qa`ida or al-Qa`idah, ( Arabic:; ar-Latn ''al-qāʿidah'' Translation: The Osama bin Laden, with some spelling variations is the name used in English to refer to (أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن born 10 March The Battle of Tora Bora was a military engagement that took place in Afghanistan in December 2001