U.S. troops from Combat Outpost Keating patrol northern Konar Province in March 2010, about six months after their small unit held off a massive attack by the Taliban that killed eight soldiers.

Why were American troops stationed in a remote outpost in Afghanistan, in a vulnerable position that made them practically sitting ducks for the Taliban? CNN’s Jake Tapper set out to answer this ...

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The American Combat Outpost, Keating, better known as COP Keating, was a US military outpost in the Nurestan Province in Afghanistan in the late 2000s. Located near the town of Kamdesh, COP Keating ...

On paper Rod Lurie would seem the ideal director to be helming "The Outpost," a new movie adapted from CNN anchor Jake Tappert's book about of the Battle of Kamdesh on Oct. 3, 2009. Approximately 400 ...

"The Outpost" manages to be both harrowing and less than completely involving, a movie that can be admired for its visceral portrayal of war while leaving the characters underdeveloped. Director Rod ...

"Why are you here?" That was the question that echoed when I visited COP Keating in 2009. Back then, it was just another American outpost stuck between two Taliban-infested hills in the middle of ...

In a new book, the CNN anchor tells the story of Combat Outpost Keating. The ill-fated American military base was in a remote Afghan valley, and on Oct. 3, 2009, it became the site of one of the ...

As the White House correspondent for ABC News, Jake Tapper covered the war in Afghanistan from what he calls "the comfort of the North Lawn of the White House." "I had not been a war reporter in any ...