Then: Takur Ghar, Afghanistan (2002) | Nation & World

The U.S. launched Operation Anaconda in 2002 to root out Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters within the distant and rugged Shahi-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains. There, a small however extremely potent drive of CIA paramilitary fighters and U.S. particular forces personnel—together with Navy SEALs, Delta operators, and Air Pressure Fight Controllers—engaged in a brief however intense and lethal battle in freezing situations on Takur Ghar Mountain.