In the summer of 2005, as Afghanistan prepared for historic parliamentary elections, coalition forces launched a high-risk ...

The headline of this posting has been corrected and this note added to reflect the fact that many of the crash victims were members of the same Navy SEAL unit that killed Osama bin Laden, and that ...

For the past year, the U.S. military’s wholesale pullout from Afghanistan after 12 years of war – the current U.S. combat mission ends in 16 months — has been big news. But it’s not a one-way street: ...

A member of the Navy's elite SEAL Team Six was killed on Sunday during a mission that rescued an American doctor from kidnappers in Afghanistan. The doctor, Dilip Joseph (pictured), was abducted along ...

In this episode, we retrace the final hours of Extortion 17, the CH-47 Chinook flight that carried an elite quick reaction force into Afghanistan’s Tangi Valley on August 6, 2011. After Army Rangers ...

For decades, the Navy SEALs have been among the most recognized names of the U.S. military's elite warfighters. This month marks 64 years since the ...

A NATO chinook helicopter was shot down in Afghanistan during an overnight operation in eastern Afghanistan, the New York Times reports, killing at least 37 people on board. At least 31 U.S. soldiers ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The Pentagon says a U.S. Navy SEAL from North Carolina has died while fighting in Afghanistan. The military says Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Joshua Thomas Harris drowned Saturday.