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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The American Combat Outpost, Keating, better known as COP Keating, was a US military outpost in the Nurestan Province in Afghanistan in the late 2000s. Located near the town of Kamdesh, COP Keating ...

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 ...

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 ...