KABUL, Afghanistan -- A helicopter crash in Afghanistan's eastern Wardak province has killed 30 U.S. special operation troops and seven Afghan soldiers, the country's president said on Saturday.

In June 2005, Lt. Michael Murphy and three fellow Navy SEALs were on a mission in the mountains of Afghanistan when they became pinned down by a swarm of enemy fighters. Trapped in a steep ravine, … ...

KABUL, Afghanistan • The 30 American service members — most of them elite Navy SEALs — who died when their helicopter was shot down had rushed to help Army Rangers who had come under fire ...

Correspondent Lara Logan spent three-and-a-half weeks in Afghanistan with the elite U.S. Navy SEALs, the first time a journalist has been allowed to go with them into combat.

The Afghan man who had found the SEAL then got word to the U.S. military base at Asadabad that he was safe, and rescuers were then on the way retrieve him. The missing SEAL was brought to safety ...

U.S. and Afghan forces, meanwhile, have been engaged in an aggressive effort to flush the fighters from their hideouts, prompting a series of fierce battles in which more than 300 insurgents have ...

BATH, Maine • The mother of a Navy SEAL killed in a firefight in Afghanistan in 2005 christened a warship bearing her son's name on Saturday, just six days after a SEAL team killed Osama bin ...

The U.S. Defense Department on Monday identified the SEAL killed during a successful raid to free a captive doctor in Afghanistan. Petty Officer 1st Class Nicolas D. Checque, 28, of Monroeville ...

A retired Navy SEAL wounded in the search for U.S. Army Sergeant Bowe Bergdahl, who walked away from his post in Afghanistan in 2009, testified about the harrowing firefight that ended his career.

A Navy SEAL from Massachusetts is among the 30 Americans who died Saturday when insurgents shot down their helicopter after a battle in Afghanistan. Kevin Houston was one of 22 members from the ...

The Seals did not suffer any casualty. They had been training in Afghanistan for this specific operation for the past one month. This was the Seal Team Six, known for its strategic exploits.