Joe Hardebeck remembers the bullet coming so close that it burned the side of his face. Standing next to a mud wall on Feb. 21, 2010, a little over a week into the Battle of Marjah, the Navy corpsman ...

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A senior Marine general in Afghanistan on Tuesday declared the battle in the southern Taliban stronghold of Marjah “essentially over.” The commander’s assertion of victory in Marjah comes 10 months ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... MARJAH, Afghanistan — The young Marine had a simple question for the farmer with the white beard: Have you seen any Taliban today? The answer came within ...

Bombs and booby traps slowed the advance of thousands of U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers moving Saturday through the Taliban-controlled town of Marjah - NATO's most ambitious effort yet to break the ...

Camp Pendleton Marines have shed a lot of blood in Afghanistan in recent weeks. Three Marines have died in two days either in action or from wounds sustained during combat, bringing to five the number ...

It could take weeks to reclaim the Taliban stronghold of Marjah, a top Marine commander said Sunday, as thousands of U.S. troops and Afghan soldiers fought for a second day in NATO's most ambitious ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The battle to secure the Afghan town of Marjah is "essentially over," a top U.S. commander said on Tuesday, almost a year after NATO forces promised a quick victory in the ...

The Battle for Marjah (HBO) — The American premiere of a documentary made by British journalist Ben Anderson, who was embedded with Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines last year during a major ...

The hardest fighting is over, but the battle for Marjah is just beginning. The outcome of last month's military campaign was never in doubt. With 15,000 combined NATO and Afghan troops pouring in to ...