Vets say drugs, alcohol, joyrides behind absences, but G.I.'s weren't deserters. June 9, 2014 — -- WASHINGTON - Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl left his combat outpost in Afghanistan in 2009 and fell ...

Beleaguered Afghan outpost earned the nickname "Camp Hell." COMBAT OUTPOST LOWELL, Afghanistan July 18, 2009— -- Over the past year, the several dozen U.S. troops hunkered down in Combat Outpost ...

Staff Sgt. Clinton “Clint” Romesha woke up early on the morning of Oct. 3, 2009. Combat Outpost Keating, an International Security Assistance Force base in Kamdesh near the Pakistani border of ...

Combat Outpost Nalgham, Afghanistan, May 21, 2011: Spc. Victor Bardales is treated for shrapnel wounds by medics Sgt. Joe Tapia, left, Sgt. Miles Boggs and Pfc. Nicholas Seay from a rocket-propelled ...

A Chinook helicopter lands at Combat Outpost Keating, Afghanistan, in March 2007. The Battle of Kamdesh stands as a harrowing testament to the valor and sacrifice of American soldiers amid the rugged ...

SANGSAR, Afghanistan — When the U.S. military recently dropped soldiers into this rural farming village, the hometown of the Taliban’s charter members, they went days without firing a shot ...

The American Combat Outpost, Keating, better known as COP Keating, was a US military outpost in the Nurestan Province in Afghanistan in the late 2000s. Located near the town of Kamdesh, COP Keating ...

TIME Photographer Yuri Kozyrev documents the U.S. military’s struggle to retain control of Mosul, a city of 1.8 million that is said to be the last urban stronghold of the insurgency The streets near ...

AMES, Iowa -- If you think interior design is all about paint colors, fabric swatches and furniture styles, think again. Students in an Iowa State University graduate studio have propelled interior ...

Science Applications International Corp., Huntsville, Alabama, has received a $10.8 million contract to procure rapid deployment integrated systems, combat outpost surveillance, and force protection ...

In a new book, the CNN anchor tells the story of Combat Outpost Keating. The ill-fated American military base was in a remote Afghan valley, and on Oct. 3, 2009, it became the site of one of the ...