WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Up to 20,000 U.S. Marines could be deployed in Afghanistan as part of a planned major troop build-up to battle worsening insurgent violence, the top U.S. Marine officer said on ...

CAMP SHORAB, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The U.S. Marine Corps has returned to Helmand, the restive province in southern Afghanistan where it fought years of bloody battles with the Taliban, to help train ...

DAHANEH, Afghanistan (AP) - August 12, 2009 Associated Press journalists traveling with the first wave said militants fired small arms, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades after helicopters dropped ...

Camp Leatherneck is the sprawling base in Afghanistan’s Helmand province from which the Marines surged against the Taliban in 2009. They turned over the keys Sunday in a ceremony that also marked the ...

KABUL, AFGHANISTAN (WNCT) — Marines from Camp Lejeune are among the members of the military assisting in the evacuation of American citizens and others from Taliban control. On its Facebook page ...

The Pentagon said Wednesday that it has upgraded the awards for multiple United States Marines who were stationed at Abbey Gate in Afghanistan during the 2021 withdrawal. War Secretary Pete Hegseth ...

Four more Camp Lejeune Marines have been killed in operations in Afghanistan, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday, bringing the number who have died in the past 10 days to 11. Four more ...

PATROL BASE FULOD, Afghanistan — The first time U.S. Marines went on patrol from this base in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban were ready. The militants shot and killed a 21-year-old lance corporal ...

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military vehicle on Saturday, killing four Marines and wounding one in western Afghanistan in the deadliest attack against U.S. troops in ...

Marines and sailors from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment returned to their North Carolina base Tuesday evening after seven months in Afghanistan. Marines and sailors from the 2nd Battalion, 8th ...

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.