A Marine general with extensive combat experience in Iraq who sped up the ranks upon returning to the Pentagon has been nominated by President Obama to lead U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan. Gen.

Marine Cpl. Rick Colts and his military working dog Torry pause during a patrol in Afghanistan in 2011. Torry, a German shepherd, worked with II Marine Expeditionary Force detecting IEDs in Helmand ...

Marines and sailors from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment returned to their North Carolina base Tuesday evening after seven months in Afghanistan. Marines and sailors from the 2nd Battalion, 8th ...

DAHANEH, Afghanistan (AP) — Helicopter-borne U.S. Marines backed by Harrier jets stormed a Taliban-held town in southern Afghanistan before dawn Wednesday, the launch of a new operation to uproot ...

Cameron West had always wanted to join the military. After all, the Acworth, Georgia, native had grown up around military life, having two grandfathers with service backgrounds. West enrolled in the ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Pentagon has ordered roughly 1,250 Marines serving as trainers for the Afghan security forces to stay on the warfront almost a month longer to continue a mission that military ...

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In 2011, Michael Haft, who grew up summers on Nantucket, was in Afghanistan, a weapons platoon commander with the 1st Battalion, 9th Marines, nicknamed “The Walking Dead.” Haft emailed his mother, ...

NEW YORK -- Amid the tragedy and chaos out of Afghanistan came a heartwarming photograph that has gone viral for the tender way a U.S. Marine is seen caring for a baby. The Marine in that photo is Sgt ...

Thirteen American service members are dead, 11 of them Marines, after a terrorist attack at the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. Following the fatal bombings, a Marine went on social media, demanding ...

Since her son Seth joined the Marines, Connie Mitchell never doubted he would come home. “I just felt like he would be safe. I prayed a lot for him…just thought he would be OK,” Mitchell said. Other ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines and wounding one in western Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in ...