After a day spent pinned down in gunbattles or caught in a maze of roadside bombs, with little hope of air support and an erratic Afghan army to coax along,
While considerable attention has been devoted to Iraqi reconstruction at the national and provincial levels, U.S. forces are leveraging their resources to
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a hard-hit battle unit Tuesday that its heavy losses have helped the U.S. begin to push back against the Taliban in
Army Chief of Staff Gen. George W. Casey said Thursday he sees anxiety in the armed services over how possible changes in the law that bans openly gay
The National Guard says a western Illinois soldier charged with possession of child pornography in Afghanistan has been discharged from the Army and will not
An Army probe into allegations of verbal threats involving a base's food supply has revealed that none of the five soldiers detained was involved in any plot
The battalion commander pondered the question: How much is a tree worth? Warrior one day, haggler the next. Lt. Col. Burton Shields was talking to an Afghan
The Army says one of five soldiers connected to a military translator program remains under investigation for alleged verbal threats involving food at Fort
The Afghan government took official control of the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah on Thursday, installing an administrator and raising the national flag
A former soldier has been convicted of stealing $100,000 in pay and lying to federal agents.
Despite an 11-day-old U.S.-led attack to capture the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, most Afghan tribal leaders in this town are still sitting on the fence. The
Top Army and Air Force officers said Tuesday they would be reluctant to overturn a 17-year policy that prohibits gays from serving openly in the military
Over the past week, men belonging to the 5th Stryker Brigade and Afghan forces have swept through villages and compounds once held by Taliban fighters,
The U.S. military says two Army helicopter pilots have been killed in an accident on a base in northern Iraq.
Outnumbered and outgunned, Taliban fighters are mounting a tougher fight than expected in Marjah, Afghan officials said Sunday, as U.S.-led forces converged on
When not in combat in Afghanistan, it's a battle of wits between U.S. troops and their elusive Taliban foe, in which the skill lies in reading the terrain and
