1 of 17 — Marine 2nd Lt. Jonathan Ross meets Afghan police in the southern district of Marjah, which was previously a Taliban stronghold. 2 of 17 — Afghan soldiers on Marjah's outskirts. U.S. Marines ...

Matthew W. McElhinney faded in and out of consciousness as the morphine kicked in. Other Marines grasped his hand, squeezed it and talked to him, trying anything to keep him awake. “What’s your ...

WASHINGTON — A Marine Force Reconnaissance soldier who served eight tours in Afghanistan told The Post Friday that some locals who fought the Taliban were “disloyal” to the US forces they partnered ...

Hundreds of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers descended on a virtually empty city in southern Afghanistan on Friday to cut off supply routes for Taliban fighters who have taken refuge in the area. The ...

KABUL, Afghanistan -- As tens of thousands of Afghans and Americans race to flee the Taliban-controlled Kabul, one dramatic image shows a U.S. Marine reaching over the razor wire atop a barrier and ...

Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts Jr. makes a counterintuitive argument about a group of U.S. Marines captured on video urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. He say we should not be so ...

Two Marines will face criminal charges for their roles in desecrating the bodies of dead Taliban fighters in Afghanistan last year—a video-taped incident that provoked widespread condemnation when it ...

Billy Simmons called his fiancée in Lincoln from a hospital in Afghanistan early Saturday — a day after a Taliban attack that killed three other Marines and a military dog.

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A force of 2,000 Marines has begun arriving in Afghanistan as part of a stepped-up mission to crush Taliban-led insurgents and flush out al-Qaida fugitives.