A Chinook helicopter lands at Combat Outpost Keating, Afghanistan, in March 2007. The Battle of Kamdesh stands as a harrowing testament to the valor and sacrifice of American soldiers amid the rugged ...

Hundreds of Taliban fighters surrounded their tiny, remote outpost in the mountains of Afghanistan, and had breached Combat Outpost Keating. Their radio was dead, and for all Larson knew, he, Carter ...

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Sorry, but this Washington Post headline — “U.S. commanders in Afghanistan face tougher discipline for battlefield failures”– misses the point. The story ...

In the summer of 2006, four and a half years after the invasion of Afghanistan, someone in the headquarters of the 10th Mountain Division had a bright idea. In and of itself, this was nothing new. So ...

(CNN) — A former U.S. Army staff sergeant will be just the fourth living recipient of the nation’s highest award for combat valor for his actions in repelling an insurgent onslaught in Afghanistan in ...

KABUL — A series of command errors set the stage for a Taliban attack on a remote American outpost four months ago, which left eight U.S. soldiers dead in one of the war’s most lethal ground assaults, ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A delay of months in closing a remote combat outpost with "no tactical or strategic value" led to the deaths of eight U.S. soldiers last year in one of the worst battles of the ...

When Blue Platoon first arrived in the lawless frontier region of Nuristan in May 2009, they went to Observation Post Fritsche, a tiny base high in the Hindu Kush mountains. It was meant to provide ...

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 ...

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 ...