Departing Marines from the Kabul airport gave a one-finger salute to the Taliban and ISIS, scrawling obscene messages on the facility’s walls — but were told by commanders to erase the ...

Iran's resumé against America since the 1979 revolution includes taking hostages, playing a role in the Beirut embassy ...

Hell no." July 17, 2013 — -- One of the U.S. Marines who was caught on video urinating on the corpses of suspected Taliban fighters has broken his silence to say that he's not sorry for what ...

(U.S. Marine Corps photo) HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan -- A Taliban shadow governor who had planned and executed improvised explosive device attacks on Marines and Afghan soldiers for well over a ...

The Marines have set up new combat outposts throughout the area and are engaging the Taliban where they find them. But the U.S. forces and their allies know that the second part will take more time.

U.S. Marines battled Taliban fighters Wednesday for control of a strategic southern town in a new operation to cut militant supply lines and allow Afghan residents to vote in next week's ...

Since taking control of Afghanistan, the Taliban has been eager to release ... an apparent recreation of the famous moment when Marines raised the American flag on Iwo Jima during World War ...

After a fierce gunfight, U.S. Marines seized a strongly defended compound Friday that appears to have been a Taliban headquarters — complete with photos of fighters posing with their weapons ...

The Central Command's report indicated that the Marines at Camp Bastion, one of the largest coalition airfields in Afghanistan, could have foreseen the possibility of a Taliban effort to penetrate ...

In Now Zad, Marines had to contend with roadside bombs that Taliban militants buried in anticipation of the Americans’ arrival. Even more such bombs are expected to await troops in Marja.

The company had received intelligence reports that 40 to 50 Taliban fighters had moved into this village a few days before, and the battalion had set a cordon around it. The Marines hoped to ...