The soldiers with the 3rd platoon launched a warning flare, called a "red star cluster," to identify themselves. For a moment, according to a U.S. military summary of the incident, the firing stopped; ...

Pat Tillman, the former ASU standout who gave up his career with the Arizona Cardinals to join the Army Rangers after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, was killed in an Afghanistan firefight last week. ...

Amidst struggles by regional negotiators at getting Afghanistan and Pakistan continue their efforts at a peace agreement came ...

A pair of deadly border incidents has rattled Central Asia with two very different outcomes. A cross-border shootout between Tajik forces and Taliban fighters in late August left at least one dead on ...