Kitty Hawk

WASHINGTON - More than 100 U.S. special operations forces, including Army Rangers, conducted a nighttime raid on Afghanistan, the first known U.S. ground action of the military campaign, a U.S. official said last night. There were no confirmed reports of...

The Pentagon acknowledged for the first time Thursday that it was ready to provide ammunition as well as food and supporting fire for opposition forces fighting the Taliban in northern Afghanistan. The announcement underscored the Bush administration's...

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The mood was tense as U.S. soldiers in a Patriot missile battery studied a radar image inside their command post at Camp Virginia in Kuwait. It was February 2003. Preparations had begun for the invasion of Iraq, and the radar indicated an enemy missile...

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Monday accused Taliban leaders of exaggerating claims of civilian casualties caused by U.S.-led air strikes in Afghanistan but said the U.S. has to do a better job of explaining the new war on terrorism to the world....

Hopes for a potentially decisive ground victory against Afghanistan's ruling Taliban government suffered an apparent setback Wednesday as Taliban forces held off rebels in the battle for the strategically important city of Mazar-e Sharif. The Northern...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - All but giving up on efforts to mediate the standoff over Osama bin Laden, Pakistan's president said yesterday a U.S. military strike against Afghanistan appears likely, and the Taliban's days are probably numbered. That...

KILL DEVIL HILLS, N.C. -- Clad in plastic ponchos and clutching cups of coffee, the thousands who gathered on the sand dunes near Kitty Hawk Wednesday had hoped to see history repeat itself on the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight....

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld lashed out Monday at Pentagon sources who told the news media last week about Army Ranger commando raids against a Taliban headquarters and airfield. "I couldn't care less where the source of the leak is," he told...

WASHINGTON - U.S. warplanes pounded suspected weapons storage sites across Afghanistan day and night yesterday, igniting huge explosions in the capital, Kabul, and sending residents scurrying for shelter. The U.S. planes have also begun a campaign of...

WASHINGTON - After enduring three weeks of aerial assaults, the Taliban fighters in Afghanistan are proving a tenacious and resilient foe, leading to the increased likelihood that sustained ground action - either by anti-Taliban rebels or U.S.-led...

U.S. military officials are basing their postwar plan for Iraq on the same flexibility that was successful in winning the war, as they try to determine just how large a force will be needed to carry out a sometimes dangerous peacekeeping mission. With at...