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 ...

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.

With American troops mostly focused on training Afghan soldiers, the hospital on the sprawling Bagram Airfield doesn't have many combat trauma cases anymore. In fact, it just has one. A 6-year-old ...

KABULKABUL — NATO and Afghan forces came under heavy fire while searching a compound in eastern Afghanistan, sparking a gunbattle that killed two U.S. soldiers and five insurgents, NATO said Friday.

(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 soldiers with the 3rd platoon launched a warning flare, called a "red star cluster," to identify themselves. For a moment, according to a U.S. military summary of the incident, the firing stopped; ...

A French soldier and around 10 Taliban fighters were killed in an early morning ambush and subsequent firefight during a joint operation on Tuesday with the Afghan army in Kapisa province, officials ...

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 ...

U.S. military forces are engaged in the biggest gunbattle in nearly a year, a reminder that America is still at war in Afghanistan. Two hundred troops from the 82nd Airborne and Special Forces are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Five people have been killed in a firefight between border guards and intruders on Tajikistan‘s border with Afghanistan, the Tajik ...

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.

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 Afghanistan. Tillman enlisted in the Army's elite ...