13 Hour Battle: 270 Taliban Dead. No U.S. Or Afghan Casulaties

Master Sgt. Rob Lee, left, Senior Airman Michael McCaffrey, center, and Tech. Sgt. Tavis Delaney coordinated airstrikes on attacking insurge...

Helicopter Hero Who Saved 30 Soldiers By Flying One-Handed

Courage: Flight Lieutenant Dan Cullen, who saved the lives of 30 British soldiers by flying his helicopter one-handed, has been honoured by ...

Ambushed By The Taliban - M240 Helmet Cam Firefight

My Comment: Impressive video. Quality is excellent. But what caught my eye was in the first minute when the soldiers were walking through a...

How Two British Officers Were Targeted And Killed In Afghanistan

Squadron Leader Anthony Downing of the RAF (left) and Royal Marine Captain Tom Jennings Photo: PA Two Officers Killed On Covert Afghanistan ...

Remembering The 2008 Battle Of Shewan

Belated Honors For Marines In Fierce Battle -- Sign On San Diego Ambushed and outmanned, a 30-member Marine platoon fought back and before t...

Marines Firing Artillery Air Bursts On Taliban (Video)

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What really Happened At The Battle For Nuristan

US Reservists Reveal Truth About The Battle For Nuristan -- The Independent Nato spoke of "some fighting" at the end of May in Nur...

Patrol Base Pashad Against 100 Taliban

Staff Sgt. Rodrigo Arias-Hernandez poses for a photo taken during his 2009 deployment to Afghanistan. Arias-Hernandez earned a Bronze Star w...

A Solider's Fight Against 30 Taliban Is Honoured

Sgt Dipprasad Pun Photo: PA Afghanistan: Gurkha Fought Honoured For Lone Fight Against Taliban -- The Telegraph A Gurkha soldier has receive...

The Important Role That Junior Officers Play In Afghanistan

Soldiers from Alpha Company, First Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment during a group therapy “debriefing” in Kunduz. Damon Winter/The New Yor...

A Soldier's Heroism May Yield Him The Congressional Medal of Honor, But It Also Reveals How Afghan Rules of Engagement Is Costing U.S. Lives

From left to right: Gunnery Sgt. Aaron Kenefick, 1st Lt. Michael Johnson, Cpl. Dakota Meyer and Hospitalman 3rd Class James Layton. Photo co...

An On The Ground Action Report From Afghanistan

British soldiers pause during their offensive to drive the Taliban's fighters from Saidabad. Corporal Gary Kendall RLC Ambushes, Firefig...

Recalling A Firefight With The Taleban

The ‘Bullet Magnet’, Mick Flynn, Recalls A Firefight With The Taleban In 2006 -- Times Online If the crossing turned out to be as dangerous ...

Afghanistan: On The Ground Action Report -- September 1, 2009

U.S. Marines and Afghan national army soldiers return fire after insurgents ambushed their patrol in the Garmsir district in Helmand provinc...

On The Ground Action Report From Afghanistan -- Two Posts From The Captain's Journal

Marine Combat Action in Dahaneh -- Captain's Journal The U.S. Marine are staying on the offensive in the Northern part of the Helmand P...

General McCaffrey On Afghanistan (After Action Report)

Anti-Taliban fighters observing U.S. bombing of the cave sanctuaries of the al-Qaeda terrorist organization in the Tora Bora mountains of Af...