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 ...

On August 6, 2011, the CH-47 Chinook Extortion 17 carried 38 people—including Navy SEALs, Air Force special operators, Army aviators, Afghan commandos, and a military working dog—toward a firefight in ...

(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 ...

The incident is the third of its kind in recent weeks in which Tajik border guards and civilians have been killed.

JALALABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) - An American and an Afghan soldier were killed on Wednesday when a firefight broke out between Afghan and NATO coalition forces at a compound where a senior U.S.

MUSKOGEE, Oklahoma -- One of the other soldiers wounded during the same firefight that killed three Oklahomans will soon be on his way back home to the United States. Sergeant John Coker, Jr. was shot ...

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.

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.

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.

TEMPE, Ariz. - Football uses war metaphors all the time. But Pat Tillman left the game behind for the real thing, and he paid with his life. The Arizona Cardinal player who walked away from a ...

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 ...