WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Up to 20,000 U.S. Marines could be deployed in Afghanistan as part of a planned major troop build-up to battle worsening insurgent violence, the top U.S. Marine officer said on ...

HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines are crossing the sands of southern Afghanistan for the first time in years, providing a boost to a NATO coalition that is growing but still short on ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson tells ABC News that his guests at Thursday's State of the Union address will include Gold Star parents who lost children in the Kabul airport bombing during the chaotic U.S.

A man was escorted out of the guest section in the House chamber during President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address as he shouted down at him about the Marines who died during the United States ...

HELMAND PROVINCE, Afghanistan — U.S. Marines are crossing the sands of southern Afghanistan for the first time in years, providing a boost to a NATO coalition that is growing but still short on ...

A bid by the Marine Corps to take responsibility for the primary U.S. military mission in Afghanistan is generating a heated debate inside and outside the Pentagon, with some senior officers arguing ...

President Bush has approved an "extraordinary, one-time" deployment of about 3,200 Marines to Afghanistan for seven months starting this spring, the Pentagon announced yesterday, while defense ...

* 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 ...

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 ...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Marines won’t be replacing soldiers in Afghanistan anytime soon, the commandant of the Corps said Wednesday. In a news conference at the Pentagon, Gen. James Conway told ...

The outgoing commandant of the Marine Corps on Tuesday predicted that Marines will be fighting in Afghanistan well after the July 2011 deadline to start withdrawing U.S. troops. “Though I certainly ...