DAHANEH, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines battled Taliban fighters Wednesday for control of a strategic southern town in a new operation to cut militant supply lines and allow Afghan residents to vote in ...

Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, a veteran of Iraq, is leading the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade in its fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. He... Marine General Takes Fight To The Taliban The ...

Garst, a corporal with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, was leading a squad to establish a checkpoint in late June when he moved into an abandoned compound where his squad could set up an ...

Four years ago, the world watched the ignominious end of 20 years of the U.S. military’s hard work and sacrifice in Afghanistan as the country fell to the Taliban. Absent any evacuation plan, Afghan ...

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 ...

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 ...

KABUL, Afghanistan – A voice cracked through the line, low and urgent as the Taliban was taking the city. An Afghan interpreter was calling an Oklahoma area code from a dim safehouse tucked between ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan -- Sauntering past disguised as shepherds, hostile Afghan forces have been boldly testing Marine defenses at the allied air base in southern Afghanistan. Concealed by scarves and ...

Eric Randall is an associate digital editor at Boston Magazine and a former staff writer for The Atlantic Wire.