The Virginia Supreme Court has ruled that a U.S. Marine and his wife will keep an Afghan orphan they brought home in defiance of the U.S. government’s decision to reunite her with her Afghan family.

A shooting in Washington, D.C., threw their immigration status into jeopardy — and brought attention to a long-hidden dimension of America’s war.

The future of the U.S. Marine Corps once its Afghanistan mission has wound down is unclear—but the corps' top officer sees it in the Pacific, The Wall Street Journal reports. It was there, during ...

The ruling places the Afghan child back in the custody of a U.S. Marine who has fought extensively in state and federal court ...

On May 10, 21-year-old Cpl. Kurt S. Shea of Frederick, Md., died while supporting combat operations in Helmand province. The incident surrounding his death is under investigation. He deployed to ...

The judge wanted everyone in the courtroom to know that when he’d signed a war orphan over to an American Marine he thought it was an emergency — that the child injured on the battlefield in ...

Cameron West had always wanted to join the military. After all, the Acworth, Georgia, native had grown up around military life, having two grandfathers with service backgrounds. West enrolled in the ...

The first time U.S. Marines went on patrol from this base in southern Afghanistan, the Taliban were ready. The militants shot and killed a 21-year-old lance corporal just 150 feet from the perimeter.