CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines trapped Taliban fighters in a residential compound and persuaded the insurgents to allow women and children to leave. The troops then moved in - only to ...

Taliban attack teams ambush Marines as they return to base outside Marja. MARJA, Afghanistan, June 25, 2010— -- In Afghanistan's volatile Helmand province this morning, a Marine squad headed into ...

Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, a veteran of Iraq, is leading the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade in its fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. He... Marine General Takes Fight To The Taliban The ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Sauntering past disguised as shepherds, hostile Afghan forces have been boldly testing Marine defenses at the allied air base in southern Afghanistan. Concealed by scarves and ...

Four years ago, the world watched the ignominious end of 20 years of the U.S. military’s hard work and sacrifice in Afghanistan as the country fell to the Taliban. Absent any evacuation plan, Afghan ...

Billy Simmons called his fiancée in Lincoln from a hospital in Afghanistan early Saturday — a day after a Taliban attack that killed three other Marines and a military dog.

In my last column, I told you about Marine Lance Cpl. Nick Mitchel and how, in 2010, he shipped with his infantry unit to Afghanistan with dreams of earning the coveted Combat Action Ribbon. He wanted ...

Thousands of pages of once-secret court documents show how federal officials and a Virginia court helped an American Marine adopt an Afghan war orphan, in defiance of the U.S. government’s official ...

Alex Lemons, a former Marine sergeant who deployed to Iraq three times – including once as scout sniper – reflects on the video of four Marines urinating on the corpses of three dead Taliban in ...