When Blue Platoon first arrived in the lawless frontier region of Nuristan in May 2009, they went to Observation Post Fritsche, a tiny base high in the Hindu Kush mountains. It was meant to provide ...

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 ...

(CNN) — A former U.S. Army staff sergeant will be just the fourth living recipient of the nation’s highest award for combat valor for his actions in repelling an insurgent onslaught in Afghanistan in ...

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 ...

Hundreds of Taliban soldiers streamed down mountainsides surrounding Combat Outpost Keating, firing at the post. One rocket-propelled grenade slammed into the generator beside Staff Sgt. Clinton ...

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 ...

Why were American troops stationed in a remote outpost in Afghanistan, in a vulnerable position that made them practically sitting ducks for the Taliban? CNN’s Jake Tapper set out to answer this ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A delay of months in closing a remote combat outpost with "no tactical or strategic value" led to the deaths of eight U.S. soldiers last year in one of the worst battles of the ...

Those were the first words we heard over the radio on the morning of Oct. 3, 2009. In response, 1st Lt. Aaron “Finch” Dove and I, who were the lead aircraft in a formation of two F-15E Strike Eagles, ...

KABUL — A series of command errors set the stage for a Taliban attack on a remote American outpost four months ago, which left eight U.S. soldiers dead in one of the war’s most lethal ground assaults, ...

As the White House correspondent for ABC News, Jake Tapper covered the war in Afghanistan from what he calls "the comfort of the North Lawn of the White House." "I had not been a war reporter in any ...