OperationValiantStrike was a major American military ground operation in Afghanistan announced on 19 March 2003.
It involved 600 men of the 2nd and 3rd battalions of the 504th parachute infantry regiment of the 82nd airborne division, along with Roumanian and Afghani troops.
The operation removed more than 170 rocket-propelled grenades, 180 land mines, 20 automatic rifles and machine guns, and tons of rockets, rifles, and launchers.
U.S. forces detained one person with suspected Taliban ties during OperationValiantStrike in the Sami Ghar mountains in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan.
As part of OperationValiantStrike, U.S. troops poured into the villages of Gari Kaloay and Sekandarzay, Afghanistan, around 140 kilometres (87 miles) east of Kandahar.
At least nine suspected al Qaeda members were killed in an operation by U.S. and Afghan troops in the far west of Afghanistan in the Ribat area, where the borders of Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran meet.
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