The soldiers with the 3rd platoon launched a warning flare, called a "red star cluster," to identify themselves. For a moment, according to a U.S. military summary of the incident, the firing stopped; ...

Afghanistan’s frontier remains the stage for regional ambitions from the “Great Game” to modern proxy wars. The ghosts of the past once again shake the region’s peace ...

Pat Tillman, the former ASU standout who gave up his career with the Arizona Cardinals to join the Army Rangers after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was killed in an Afghanistan firefight last week. ...

A pair of deadly border incidents has rattled Central Asia with two very different outcomes. A cross-border shootout between Tajik forces and Taliban fighters in late August left at least one dead on ...

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama awarded the nation's highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, to Army Staff Sgt. Ty Carter on Monday, saluting the veteran of the war in Afghanistan as “the ...