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 ...

Five people have been killed in a firefight between border guards and intruders on Tajikistan‘s border with Afghanistan, the Tajik border protection agency says. Heavily armed raiders from Afghanistan ...

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A renewed firefight near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border has raised concerns over civilian and humanitarian worker safety.

A hero helicopter pilot who saved 31 lives in Afghanistan could die unless he receives a stem cell transplant. Chris Gordon, a 43-year-old former RAF Chinook pilot, received the Distinguished Flying ...

An investigation is under way into a firefight in the Khowst district of Afghanistan’s Khowst province overnight, as U.S. Forces Afghanistan officials acknowledged today that the people killed were ...

A U.S. servicemember was injured when an improvised explosive device struck a joint Afghan National Army and coalition forces patrol Sept. 14 south of Tarin Kowt in Afghanistan's Kandahar province, ...

KABUL: Five civilians, two of them children, were killed Wednesday in a firefight between insurgents and foreign soldiers in southern Afghanistan, Nato said. The exchange of small arms fire broke out ...

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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.