Combat in Afghanistan pushed firearms to their limits, with soldiers facing everything from close-quarters urban fighting to long-range engagements across rugged terrain. The weapons that proved most ...

"Frankly, we are running out of time," Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Armed Services Committee, referring to the international effort to stabilize Afghanistan.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (AP) — The death toll from a week of fighting between Afghan forces and hundreds of Taliban militants in a southern province rose above 100, officials said Thursday, while the ...

Members of India's Ladakh Scouts infantry regiment survey a mountain pass in the Ladakh Range of the Himalayas in the Jammu and Kashmir region of India.Mary Knox Merrill / The Christian Science ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Retired Col. Eric Terashima rates scenes portraying the Afghanistan War in movies. During his 30 years of service, Terashima had ...

Retired Col. Eric Terashima rates scenes portraying the Afghanistan War in movies. During his 30 years of service, Terashima had 12 deployments, including eight combat tours, three of which were in ...

Afghanistan's decadeslong fight to eradicate the crippling polio virus has suffered a new blow after the Taliban suspended a national vaccination campaign. The hard-line Islamist group informed UN ...

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