In March 2002, during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, US special operations forces launched a mission to seize the summit of Takur Ghar, a 10,000-foot mountain overlooking the Shahikot Valley. What ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s security forces killed 34 militants in multiple raids across the country, the military said on Wednesday, as a separate ambush blamed on the Pakistani Taliban killed four ...

Some stories can be told only because of journalists who are willing to risk their lives. Award-winning photographer David Gilkey of NPR and Afghan journalist and translator Zabihullah Tamanna were ...

Insurgents ambushed a NATO coalition supply convoy in the mountains of western Afghanistan, setting off a three-hour firefight in which one Afghan soldier, five security personnel, and at least 14 ...

News of an attack in Syria that killed two Iowa National Guard soldiers is resurfacing painful memories for a retired sergeant major who lived through a strikingly similar ambush more than a decade ...