LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Afghan forces are battling to hold Marjah district center in the volatile southern province of Helmand that Taliban insurgents have cut off as part of a ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A U.S.-led coalition fought sporadic battles on Monday in the third day of one of the largest offensives so far in the eight-year-old war, targeting Marjah -- the last big Taliban ...

Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II's from the 303rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron releases flares over Afghanistan Nov. 13. The Warthogs, assigned to the 451st Air Expeditionary Group at Bagram Airfield, ...

MARJAH, Afghanistan — In the incongruous way of this nearly nine-year war, a 28-year-old from Raleigh, N.C., told an old man here how to improve his life and the life of his family. He was not ...

No one showed up for the start of official recruitment for Marjah’s first local police force. No one showed up until the third — and last — day at a U.S. Marines base in North Marjah, the Afghan ...

Skeptics might look at the departure of the governor of Afghanistan's Marjah District after only months in office as just another sign that NATO's efforts to use that area as a model for progress in ...

MARJAH, Afghanistan -- Since their offensive in February, the Marines have flooded Marjah with hundreds of thousands of dollars a week. The tactic aims to win over locals by paying them compensation ...

MARJAH, Afghanistan - Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top allied military commander in Afghanistan, sat gazing at maps of Marjah as a Marine battalion commander asked him for more time to oust ...

A small farming district in southern Afghanistan has become a gauge of progress in the Afghan war, but some U.S. officials say the area -- and the violence there -- need to be understood in a wider ...