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 ...

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 ...

Two Force Recon Marines received the medal on Thursday for their actions more than 50 years ago, alongside an Army officer ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Two revered Vietnam-era Marines and a soldier who served in Afghanistan are recognized for acts of valor years ago.

The Marine Corps has upgraded the valor awards given to Marines who guarded Abbey Gate at the Hamid Karzai International Airport on Aug. 26, 2021 — the day a suicide bomber struck the gate and killed ...

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 ...

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.

Camp Leatherneck Afghanistan, February 2014: From left, Lance Cpl. Matthew Ford, Cpl. Matthew Pappas and Lance Cpl. Albert Adams, all of Retrograde and Redeployment in Support of Reset and ...