US and Canadian troops have found a cache of mortars, grenades and rockets as they scoured the Afghan mountains for escaping al-Qaida and Taliban fighters.
Loud explosions could be heard echoing off the peaks as the captured weapons were blown up.
The bodies of two al-Qaida fighters were also found within the cave complex that al-Qaida and Taliban fighters held before they were routed during the 12-day attack.
Earlier in the day, US and Canadian soldiers pursued four al-Qaida fighters who eluded capture after a gunbattle. But they eluded capture.
At the Pentagon, US Defence Secretary Mr Donald Rumsfeld said the fighting is "winding down," but skirmishes continue in the Shah-e-Kot mountains as US and its allies pursue al-Qaida and Taliban forces.
He says a key objective of the US-led campaign is to keep al-Qaida and Taliban fighters from regrouping, either in Afghanistan or in neighbouring countries.
"We need to make sure that the well-trained terrorists who left Afghanistan do not set up sanctuaries in other nations," Rumsfeld said.
"There are still pockets of Taliban and al-Qaida fighters at a number of locations in Afghanistan, and certainly there are others just across the various borders of that country that would like to come back."
A US official says numerous al-Qaida fighters fleeing battles near Shah-e-Kot are believed to have escaped into Pakistan.
It is unclear how many of the terrorist group's fighters fleeing the US-led crackdown named Operation Anaconda evaded Pakistani troops to cross the border, the official said.
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