When Blue Platoon first arrived in the lawless frontier region of Nuristan in May 2009, they went to Observation Post Fritsche, a tiny base high in the Hindu Kush mountains. It was meant to provide ...

A Chinook helicopter lands at Combat Outpost Keating, Afghanistan, in March 2007. The Battle of Kamdesh stands as a harrowing testament to the valor and sacrifice of American soldiers amid the rugged ...

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U.S. troops from Combat Outpost Keating patrol northern Konar Province in March 2010, about six months after their small unit held off a massive attack by the Taliban that killed eight soldiers.

WASHINGTON — Saluting Clinton Romesha for embodying the soldier's creed of never leaving behind a fallen comrade, President Barack Obama on Monday bestowed the Medal of Honor on him for courageously ...

KABUL — A series of command errors set the stage for a Taliban attack on a remote American outpost four months ago, which left eight U.S. soldiers dead in one of the war’s most lethal ground assaults, ...

As the White House correspondent for ABC News, Jake Tapper covered the war in Afghanistan from what he calls "the comfort of the North Lawn of the White House." "I had not been a war reporter in any ...