Seventeen of the men in the platoon had been killed by time the firefight ended.
Sometimes armed groups would call them to come and collect the files after a firefight ended.
A firefight ended with one F.S.B. officer killed and several of the saboteurs captured.
When the firefight ended, at least eight gunmen lay dead, including an Iraqi soldier, American soldiers said.
And so the battle over the wider meaning of the attack and how it would be perceived around the world began well before the firefight ended on Wednesday, when the last militant was killed.
A series of firefights end with Alexis dead.
The Washington Post's Kevin Sieff on the man who retrieves the remains of Taliban fighters: Abdul Hakim gets the first calls just after the bombs explode and the firefights end, when all that is left are the remains of the dead.
How later, during the firefight, he ended up just a few feet from the corpse.
As I say, squaddie humour is pretty dark: you can find yourself in the middle of a firefight and end up laughing your head off.
In southeastern Paktika Province, Afghan authorities said four suicide bombers attacked government buildings in the capital, Sharana, on Sunday night, but were subdued after an eight-hour firefight, which ended Monday in the deaths of the attackers.
