KABUL, Afghanistan — The 30 U.S. troops killed when their Chinook helicopter was shot down Saturday in eastern Afghanistan — many of them Navy SEALs &mash; were fighting a war rarely talked about.

Before Saturday, the highest single-day loss for the U.S. military in Afghanistan came on June 28, 2005, when a Chinook carrying 16 Navy SEALs and Army special operations troops was shot down in ...

US Navy Seals carried out a raid last month to free two western hostages in Afghanistan but arrived hours too late, officials told US media on Thursday. The special forces aimed to rescue Kevin ...

Fifteen Afghan civilians and 10 commandos sent to reinforce Shi'ite militia forces fighting Taliban in the central province of Ghazni were killed on Sunday, officials said, as a days-long battle with ...

KABUL — Their name conjures up the most celebrated moment of America’s post-Sept. 11 military campaigns. Now the Navy SEALs belong to a grimmer chapter in history: the most deadly incident for ...

In a moving pregame ceremony Saturday night at Petco Park, the San Diego Padres paid tribute to the 11 Navy SEALs and 8 Army commandos killed on June 28, 2005, in Afghanistan.

Just more than 50 percent of respondents to a recent Washington Post-ABC News poll said the war in Afghanistan is not worth fighting. Three years ago, the U.S. had about 20,000 forces in Afghanistan.

For Australian troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, this year has been the deadliest since the war began. Faced with the dangers of improvised explosive devices and the frustration of an ...