The Marines known as "America's Battalion" are in Afghanistan as part of the 21,000 additional forces President Obama is deploying in the administration's strategy to counter the Taliban insurgency.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Marines are putting America’s longest war behind them. They are pulling up stakes in the patch of Afghan desert known as Helmand province, where 378 Marines were killed and ...

Taliban insurgents melt away in the face of overwhelming force. CHANGOWLAK, Afghanistan Dec. 7, 2009— -- An offensive by U.S. Marines easily took the Taliban town of Now Zad today, killed 25 ...

Retired Marine Col. Christian Cabaniss talks about the 14 men under his command who were killed in Afghanistan in 2009, and his work helping... A Marine remembers the war in Afghanistan Here & Now‘s ...

Rick Colts knew something was wrong the moment his military working dog changed his search pattern. It was June 1, 2011, the ...

* Marines' goal: Talk a little more, shoot a little less * Lessons of Iraq's Anbar applied in Afghanistan's Helmand By Peter Graff DESERT OF DEATH, Afghanistan, June 28 (Reuters) - After five years ...

It would allow the US to again project power in the region, with China close by. But taking it back won't be easy.

The Marine Corps may begin shifting its major combat forces out of Iraq to focus on Afghanistan in 2009 if greater security in Iraq allows a reduction of Marines there, top Pentagon officials said ...

GOLESTAN, AFGHANISTAN -- The Marine Corps Osprey, an unwieldy, gray contraption that flies like an airplane but lands like a helicopter, raced through the sky before it slowed to a hover and alighted ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Dakota Meyer, a Marine who ...

DESERT OF DEATH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - After five years coping with the most dangerous province in Iraq, the U.S. Marines have been given their next assignment: the most dangerous province in ...