The Barrett M107 .50-caliber long-range sniper rifle is a firearm made for the modern war on terrorism. Officially adopted by the U.S. Army in 2002 and boasting a 2,000-meter range, a suppressor-ready ...

Marines with Special-Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa, logistics combat element, simulate a gas attack during a field exercise at Morón Air Base, Spain, Feb. 7. (Sgt.

FALLUJAH, Iraq, March 26 -- An early morning search operation by U.S. Marines erupted into what witnesses described as an intermittent, day-long firefight against Iraqi insurgents, the heaviest ...

As the American mission in Afghanistan winds down, dangers still abound for U.S. troops – the most recent incident involved a Taliban gunman who fired on a U.S. Marine outpost in Afghanistan’s Helmand ...

We told you before and below about the dramatic heroism that earned a Marine the Medal of Honor, presented Thursday by President Obama. But when Corporal Dakota Meyer was awarded the honor, he said he ...

The body of Staff Sgt. Aram J. Bass, an ex-Marine who joined the Army so he could serve in the Iraq War, was returned to Western New York on Sunday. An honor guard of Bass' fellow soldiers from the ...

A decade into the effort to concretely integrate information warfare into its operations, the Marine Corps appears to be in the thick of another intellectual firefight. Consternation abounds regarding ...

A Marine Raider will be awarded the Navy Cross for his heroism during a firefight that lasted more than five hours following an Islamic State ambush in Iraq last year. Staff Sgt. Nicholas Jones of the ...

MARINE COMBAT HEADQUARTERS, Iraq, April 10 -- The tip came in overnight, Marine officers recalled: Former president Saddam Hussein and his younger son, Qusay, were alive and hiding out in a house near ...