Farmers from the district of Marja, which since February has been the focus of the largest American-led military operation in Afghanistan, are fleeing the area, saying that the Taliban are terrorizing ...

CAMP LEATHERNECK, AFGHANISTAN -- Thousands of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers traveling in helicopters and mine-resistant vehicles began punching into a key Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan ...

MARJA, AFGHANISTAN -- Residents of this onetime Taliban sanctuary see signs that the insurgents have regained momentum in recent weeks, despite early claims of success by U.S. Marines. The longer-than ...

MARJA, Afghanistan — Twelve bodies — five children, five women and two men — were wrapped head to toe in woolen blankets, lying in a neat row on the floor of the only room remaining in a house that ...

NEAR MARJA, Afghanistan • U.S. Marines seized key positions in the Taliban sanctuary of Marja on Saturday, as thousands of coalition troops picked their way through a dense tangle of homemade bombs to ...

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - U.S. Marines in the vanguard of President Barack Obama's Afghanistan "surge" will face a bloody fight for the last major Taliban bastion in southern Helmand ...

MARJA, Afghanistan - Mike Mullen, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, was sitting cross-legged on a red carpet under a hastily erected tent in the dusty Afghan agricultural district of Marja, ...

Garst, a corporal with 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, was leading a squad to establish a checkpoint in late June when he moved into an abandoned compound where his squad could set up an ...