Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CH-47 Chinook helicopters take off in the early morning in support of Operation Anaconda, March 4, 2002. US Army Within weeks of ...

The Taliban took control of Afghanistan, with the international community powerlessly watching Over the last few days, the Taliban have swept across Afghanistan and taken control of Kabul, the capital ...

GARDEZ, Afghanistan -- To some veteran Afghan commanders, the recent U.S. offensive against al-Qaida fighters in eastern Afghanistan failed because most of them got away. Moreover, they say, this ...

During Operation Anaconda, John Chapman, a Combat Controller with the United States Air Force, volunteered to accompany a ...

A Special Forces soldier who died in the opening hours of Operation Anaconda in eastern Afghanistan this month may have been mistakenly killed by an American AC-130 "Spectre" gunship, defense ...

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Operation Anaconda is intended to rout hundreds of enemy fighters believed to have regrouped after the Taliban fell Dec. 7 from their spiritual base in Kandahar. Neither the former Taliban supreme ...

From the cockpit of his AH-64A Apache helicopter, Keith Hurley put his sight on eight al Qaeda fighters manning a mortar pit in Afghanistan's Shahikot Valley and let loose a barrage of 70mm rockets.

BOSSIER CITY, La. - A B-52 bomber passes over ChristFit gym in Bossier City as founder Billy Weatherall raises the American flag for the day. Weatherall, an Army veteran, takes notice as he tends to ...

An Army Ranger quick reaction force attempts to rescue a patrol pinned down on a mountaintop in southeast Afghanistan They have no idea that within twelve hours five ...