A Marine general with extensive combat experience in Iraq who sped up the ranks upon returning to the Pentagon has been nominated by President Obama to lead U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Gen.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines and wounding one in western Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in ...

Marine Cpl. Rick Colts and his military working dog Torry pause during a patrol in Afghanistan in 2011. Torry, a German shepherd, worked with II Marine Expeditionary Force detecting IEDs in Helmand ...

As the U.S. Marine Corps starts to withdraw from Afghanistan, there is a greater emphasis on getting its equipment out of the country and back to the U.S. than there was during the withdrawal from ...

The retirement of the post-9/11 generation raises a question: What, exactly, is worth carrying forward into a new age of ...

KABUL (Reuters) - About 300 U.S. Marines will be sent to Afghanistan's Helmand province to assist Afghan security forces battling Taliban insurgents in intelligence and logistics matters, the unit's ...

DAHANEH, Afghanistan (AP) — Helicopter-borne U.S. Marines backed by Harrier jets stormed a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan before dawn Wednesday, the launch of a new operation to uproot ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. QUANTICO, Va. – Former Marine Corps Staff Sgt. David McGrath hadn’t seen the vehicle he was blown up in years ago in Afghanistan ...

Dakota Meyer, a Marine who was awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism in the Afghanistan War but later became a sharp critic of the Biden administration over its chaotic withdrawal from that conflict, ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- As tens of thousands of Afghans and Americans race to flee the Taliban-controlled Kabul, one dramatic image shows a U.S. Marine reaching over the razor wire atop a barrier and ...