U.S. Marines fight a gunbattle while clearing out insurgents near Musa Qaleh, in northern Helmand Province, southern Afghanistan. When Samu Qureshi sits down in the middle of his 4,100-square-foot ...

5th Marine Regiment, deployed to the Sangin district of Afghanistan’s Helmand province in late September, the British soldiers who had preceded them warned the Americans that the Taliban would be ...

He awed us—most of us were on our first deployment to Afghanistan and Matt had served in combat multiple times and had fought ...

The last U.S. Marines unit flew out of Afghanistan’s Helmand province on Monday, ending one of the toughest fights in America’s longest war. Video by WSJ's Margherita Stancati.

"And that focus kept a lot of Marines alive in Helmand province, kept a lot of Marines alive in Iraq, in the Sunni Triangle." ...

It is reported to be the first friendly fire incident in Helmand since US Marines returned there in May. Taliban insurgents have made widespread gains in the province. In a statement, the US ...

American Military News, January 1, 2017 In 2010, the 3rd Platoon of Kilo Company in the 5th Marine Regiment was patrolling the farmlands in bloody Sangin in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan.

Sangin has been one of the most heavily-contested districts in Helmand province. Nearly a third of all British combat deaths during the Afghan war have occurred in the district, and the US 3rd ...

Leslie Flagg '91 last saw a fellow Kellogg alumnus in Helmand Province, the opium-rich region of southern Afghanistan that was the site of more casualties than almost any other in the recent war.

A ROYAL Marine jailed for the murder of a captured Taliban fighter in Afghanistan let professional standards “slip to an unacceptable low level,” a review found yesterday. The Royal Navy internal ...