Lt. Gen. Benjamin Watson was nominated by President Donald Trump to serve as commander of III Marine Expeditionary Force and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Marine Lt. Col. Stuart Scheler will oversee a Defense Department review into how officers are evaluated and promoted.

The first time U.S. Marines went on patrol from this base in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban were ready. The militants shot and killed a 21-year-old lance corporal just 150 feet from the perimeter.

On May 10, 21-year-old Cpl. Kurt S. Shea of Frederick, Md., died while supporting combat operations in Helmand province. The incident surrounding his death is under investigation. He deployed to ...

The future of the U.S. Marine Corps once its Afghanistan mission has wound down is unclear—but the corps' top officer sees it in the Pacific, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was there, during ...

Four years ago, the world watched the ignominious end of 20 years of the U.S. military’s hard work and sacrifice in Afghanistan as the country fell to the Taliban. Absent any evacuation plan, Afghan ...

Yami Reina knew Marine Gunnery Sgt. David Post was special to her. A decorated Marine who lost his left foot to an IED in Afghanistan in 2011, Post and Reina had been dating a few months when she ...