"Nightline" visits soldiers battling for local favor in violent Afghan province. MIAN POSHETH, Afghanistan May 31, 2010 — -- Southern Helmand Province, Afghanistan, is the opium capital of the ...

As the sun rises U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl Brenden Kempton provides security at an observation post during a patrol in Khan Neshin, Afghanistan, June 1, 2011. Kempton is with the 2nd Light Armored ...

This is the return of the force in the poppy-growing southern province, where American forces faced heated fighting until 2014. The Marines, pictured in 2011, were among the first US forces sent to ...

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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — Thirteen years ago, U.S. Marines sneaked across the Pakistani border into what was then Taliban-controlled Afghanistan. On Monday, the last Marines sneaked out, ...

Two young female Marines trudged along with an infantry patrol in the 102-degree heat, soaked through their camouflage uniforms under 60 pounds of gear. But only when they reached this speck of a ...

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan — Teams of builders worked through dust storms Monday to expand a base for a brigade of U.S. Marines now fanning out across southern Afghanistan to try to change the ...

He awed us—most of us were on our first deployment to Afghanistan and Matt had served in combat multiple times and had fought the Taliban on the ground. Most of us had just seen them as we conducted ...

Thousands of Marines arrive in southern Afghanistan as part of so-called surge. CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan, June 9, 2009— -- This vast tent city called Camp Leatherneck in Helmand Province was ...

(AP) A U.S. official says an insurgent attack on a British air base in southern Afghanistan has killed two American Marines and wounded several troops. The official says the attack at Camp Bastion in ...

U.S. Navy Hospitalman Derek Happel, front, and U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Alexander Vanny, team leader, both from 3rd Platoon, Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 6, ...

LASHKAR GAH, Aug 27 (Reuters) - Soldiers from the U.S.-led NATO coalition have joined combat to stop a Taliban advance in Afghanistan's Helmand province, where battlefield success has given the ...