Battle of Takur Ghar

BelligerentsUnited StatesTaliban
Al-Qaeda
Islamic Movement of UzbekistanCommanders and leadersMGFrank Hagenbeck
BG Gregory Trebon
LTC Pete Blaber
CPTNate SelfMaulviSaif-ur-Rehman MansoorStrength 7 Navy SEALs
20 Army Rangers
4 Airmen
4 MH-47 Chinooks
1 AC-130 gunship
2 F-15Es
2 F-16s
1 Armed Predator Drone At least 10 at hilltop camp
Around 35 in reinforcementCasualties and losses 7 killed
12 wounded
2 Chinooks lost 25–200 killed

Major operations

• Mountain Viper
• Asbury Park
• 2006 Taliban offensive
• Perth
• Chora
• Firebase Anaconda
• Shewan
• Balamorghab
• Sabzak
• Derapet
• Doan
• Kunduz (2015)
• Omari
• Tarinkot
• Kunduz (2016)
• Boz Qandahari
• Darzab (2017)
• Farah
• Darzab (2018)
• Kunar (2019–2020)
• Ghazni
• 2021 Taliban offensive
  • Zaranj
  • Kunduz
  • Herat
  • Kandahar
  • Lashkargah
  • Kabul

Airstrikes

• Sayyd Alma Kalay
• Uruzgan wedding
• Hyderabad
• Gora Prai
• Haska Meyna/Deh Bala
• Azizabad
• Wech Baghtu
• Granai
• Kunduz (2009)
• Uruzgan helicopter
• Sangin (2010)
• Mano Gai
• Baraki Barak
• Kapisa
• Kunar
• Kunduz hospital
• Sangin (2017)
• Nangarhar
• Kunduz madrassa

Major insurgent attacks
2002

• Kabul

2007

• Attempted assassination of Dick Cheney
• S Korean hostage
• Baghlan sugar factory

2008

• Kandahar
• Spin Boldak
• Khost
• Kabul Indian embassy
• Kabul hotel

2009

• Kabul raids
• Kabul NATO
• Kandahar
• Kabul Indian embassy
• Kabul UN guesthouse
• Camp Chapman

2010

• Kabul (Jan)
• Kabul (Feb)
• Kabul (May)
• Nadahan

2011

• Logar
• Kabul hotel
• Nimruz
• Zabul
• Kabul (Sep)
• Kabul & Mazar-e-Sharif

2012

• Raids
• Camp Bastion
• FOB Salerno Attack

2013

• Farah
• Kabul court
• Kabul palace
• Jalalabad
• Herat

2014

• Kabul restaurant
• Kabul hotel
• Herat Indian consulate
• Bagram
• 1st Paktika
• 2nd Paktika
• Kabul school

2015

• Jalalabad
• Kabul hotel
• Kabul Parliament
• Khost
• Kabul police
• Kabul Airport
• Kabul NATO
• Ghazni
• Kandahar
• Kabul Spanish embassy
• Bagram

2016

• Jalalabad
• Kabul NDS
• Kunduz-Takhar highway
• Kabul Canadian embassy
• Wardak
• Kabul Hazara protest
• Kabul University
• Kabul Defense Ministry
• Mazar-i-Sharif
• Bagram

2017

• Bombings (Jan)
• Kabul hospital
• Camp Shaheen
• Kabul (May)
• Herat (Jun)
• June Lashkargah
• Herat (Aug)
• Gardez & Ghazni
• Kabul & Ghor
• Kabul Shi'ite

2018

• Kabul hotel
• Jalalabad (Save the Children)
• Kabul ambulance
• Kabul (Mar)
• Kabul (22 Apr)
• Kabul (30 Apr)
• Jalalabad (Jul)
• Baghlan
• Kabul (Sep)
• Jalalabad (Sep)

2019

• Maidan Shar
• Camp Shorabak
• Kabul mosque
• Kabul Defense Ministry
• Ghazni
• Kabul office
• Farah
• Kabul police
• Kabul wedding
• Kabul (Sep)
• Charikar & Kabul
• Qalat
• Jalalabad
• Haska Meyna
• Bagram

2020

• Kabul (6 Mar)
• Kabul gurdwara
• May
• June
• July
• August
  • Jalalabad
• September
• October
• November
  • Kabul University
• December

2021

• Jan-Aug
  • Kabul school

Massacres

• Dasht-i-Leili
• Shinwar
• Nangar
• Narang
• Maywand
• Khataba
• Badakhshan
• Kandahar
• FOB Delhi

Other

• U.S. urination incident
• Quran burning protests
• Insurgents' bodies
• U.S.–Afghan agreement
• United States–Taliban deal
• U.S. withdrawal
  • 2011–2016
  • 2020–2021
• Peace process
• 2021 Kabul airlift

The Battle of Takur Ghar was a short but intense military engagement between United States special operations forces and al-Qaeda insurgents fought in March 2002, atop Takur Ghar mountain in Afghanistan. For the U.S. side, the battle proved the deadliest entanglement of Operation Anaconda, an effort early in the War in Afghanistan to rout al-Qaeda forces from the Shahi-Kot Valley and Arma Mountains. The battle saw three helicopter landings by the U.S. on the mountain top, each met with direct assault from al-Qaeda forces. Although Takur Ghar was eventually taken, seven U.S. service members were killed and 12 others were wounded. The battle is also known as the Battle of Roberts Ridge, after the first casualty of the battle, Navy SEAL Neil C. Roberts.