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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 Afghan Taliban today released footage of drone strikes at Pakistani border outposts as the two neighbours engaged in one of the deadliest conflicts in years. Dozens of Pakistani soldiers have been ...

"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 ...