CAMP LEJEUNE, North Carolina (Reuters) - A U.S. Marine pleaded guilty on Wednesday to urinating on the bodies of dead Taliban fighters and then posing for photographs, a scene captured in a widely ...

Matthew W. McElhinney faded in and out of consciousness as the morphine kicked in. Other Marines grasped his hand, squeezed it and talked to him, trying anything to keep him awake. “What’s your ...

A U.S. Marine staff sergeant has pleaded guilty to urinating on the corpses of three Taliban fighters in Afghanistan, an act captured on video and posted to YouTube. In his court-martial at Camp ...

DAHANEH, Afghanistan — U.S. aircraft and missiles pounded Taliban mountainside positions around Dahaneh on Thursday as Marines pushed through mud-brick compounds searching for militants in the second ...

Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, a veteran of Iraq, is leading the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade in its fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan. He... Marine General Takes Fight To The Taliban The ...

Four years ago, the world watched the ignominious end of 20 years of the U.S. military’s hard work and sacrifice in Afghanistan as the country fell to the Taliban. Absent any evacuation plan, Afghan ...

WASHINGTON — A Marine Force Reconnaissance soldier who served eight tours in Afghanistan told The Post Friday that some locals who fought the Taliban were “disloyal” to the US forces they partnered ...

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In January 2007, a group of Royal Marines threw together a crazy mission to rescue a wounded Marine trapped inside the compound. To get him back, four Marines strapped themselves to the outside of ...

Let's say you're fighting a complex, eight-year-long war against multiple insurgencies in Afghanistan, a country that hasn't seen peace in over three decades. What do you do? Members of the U.S.

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