In this Sept. 15, 2011 file photo Capt. Michael Kolton, 28, of Fairfax Sta., Va., commanding officer of the U.S. Army's Bravo Company of the 25th Infantry Division, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd ...

KHOWST PROVINCE, Afghanistan (March 7, 2012) -- A joint airdrop operation between Task Force Spartan, the U.S. Air Force, the Afghan Border Patrol and local militia Arbici was conducted to resupply ...

Firing rockets and rifles, Taliban militiamen attacked American and Afghan military outposts in a daylong siege on Saturday that killed eight U.S. soldiers and two Afghan security forces in one of the ...

U.S. troops from Combat Outpost Keating patrol northern Konar Province in March 2010, about six months after their small unit held off a massive attack by the Taliban that killed eight soldiers.

In a sharp escalation of border tensions, Afghanistan's Ministry of Defense claimed that Taliban-led forces had captured multiple Pakistani Army outposts along the Durand Line, including in the ...

This weekend's news reports on a battle in the province of Nuristan — which resulted in nine American KIAs — underscore the dangerous situation facing our troops in Afghanistan. This is not the first ...

FORT BELVOIR, Virginia (Reuters) - To sustain themselves on Afghanistan's rugged frontlines, U.S. Army troops have learned to sip, not guzzle. The liquid they must conserve is JP-8, a kerosene-based, ...

COMBAT OUTPOST HANSON, Afghanistan -- A turkey trot it was not. The U.S. Marines' top general, James Amos, sprinted up and down the Helmand River Valley in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, visiting ...

"The sky is not falling," Col. Charles "Chip" Preysler, commander of the 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, said Saturday from Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Preysler spoke via telephone less than a week ...

The commander of international forces in Afghanistan was scheduled to pay a surprise visit to Marines at Combat Outpost Hanson in Marjah this week, some four months after they waged a fierce offensive ...