WASHINGTON -- It was chaos during the early morning assault last year on a remote U.S. outpost in Afghanistan and Staff Sgt. Erich Phillips' M4 carbine had quit firing as militant forces surrounded ...

Hopes for a winter lull in fighting in southern Afghanistan were halted by a weekend firefight in Uruzgan province in which Nato said it killed 70 suspected militants. The battle erupted on Saturday ...

STEWARTVILLE, Minn. - A 23-year-old Stewartville soldier was killed in a firefight in Afghanistan shortly after he called Minnesota to wish his little brother a happy birthday, his mother said Monday.

(Fixes garble) CANBERRA, Sept 19 (Reuters) - An Afghanistan district governor was killed in a firefight involving Australian special forces soldiers, Australia's military said on Friday. Chora ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents in eastern Afghanistan opened fire Tuesday on patrolling U.S. forces, setting off a firefight that left four attackers dead, a military spokesman said. No U.S.

Five people have been killed in a firefight between border guards and intruders on Tajikistan's border with Afghanistan, the Tajik border protection agency says. Heavily armed raiders from Afghanistan ...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan -- U.S. troops killed three of their Afghan allies Friday in a firefight that broke out when both sides moved in separately on a compound mistakenly thought to be a hide-out of ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- Taliban militants unleashed car bombs at the U.S. Consulate in western Afghanistan on Friday morning, triggering a firefight with security forces in an attack that killed at ...

Army soldiers Kevin Yeatman, left, and Sgt. James Horris smoke following a firefight with Taliban insurgents on Oct. 28 in the Korengal Valley in eastern AfghanistanJohn Moore / Getty Many U.S.

A U.S. Special Forces soldier was killed during a brief firefight in Afghanistan yesterday, according to military officials. There were no other reports of coalition casualties in the firefight. The ...

KABUL, Afghanistan — Raising fresh doubts about security in this troubled capital, gunmen assaulted a hilltop Afghan army post Wednesday, touching off a running, three-hour gunbattle that killed 16 ...

NFL Star Turned Ranger Dies in Afghan Firefight Pat Tillman, a former NFL defensive back who spurned a multi-million dollar contract to join the U.S. Army, has been killed during a firefight in ...