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 ...

Eric Randall is an associate digital editor at Boston Magazine and a former staff writer for The Atlantic Wire.

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 ...

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 ...