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Operation Haven Denial was aU.S.-led operation (July 2–6, 2003) againstTaliban remnants andAl Qaeda fighters in thePaktika andKhost provinces ofAfghanistan.^[1] The operation involved 800 U.S soldiers backed by more than 500Italianparatroopers and by 25 aircraft.

One illegal border checkpoint was dismantled and one small cache of weapons was confiscated. Some 250 vehicles were inspected and 400 people interviewed, but no one was detained during the operation.

It was the biggest operation in Afghanistan sinceOperation Anaconda in March 2002.

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