It was an inauspicious beginning to the biggest operation of the Afghan war — and the biggest mission of Col. Frank Wiercinski’s career. Grounded on a ridge at 9,000 feet, Wiercinski and his command ...

Within weeks of the September 11 attacks, US forces were in Afghanistan fighting Al Qaeda and its Taliban hosts. By March 2002, US special-operations forces, their international partners, and local ...

Dateline NBC received numerous e-mails about Sunday's broadcast. Below are a few. • June 13, 2006 | I have never been so touched emotionally by a story as that of these brave young men, who fought in ...

We revisit Operation Anaconda, the 2002 battle in Afghanistan’s Shah-i-Kot Valley that was meant to deliver a decisive blow ...

In March 2002, during a battle called Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, a Navy Seal named Neil Roberts fell from a helicopter as it attempted to land on a mountaintop controlled by al Qaeda fighters.

WASHINGTON – Moving against remnant al-Qaida and Taliban forces in Afghanistan, U.S. forces killed 16 fighters in a gunbattle and captured 31 others at a military compound, U.S. officials said Monday.

BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (REUTERS) — The United States Monday announced the end of the biggest ground battle of the Afghan war but forecast more big battles ahead before al Qaeda-Taliban forces ...

BAGRAM, Afghanistan – Eight U.S. soldiers received Purple Hearts on Saturday for injuries suffered during an intense, 18-hour firefight on the first day of Operation Anaconda. "The men standing here .

W A S H I N G T O N, March 18 -- Operation Anaconda, the biggest U.S. military ground offensive in Afghanistan, is over, a U.S. military official said today. "Operation Anaconda is complete," Air ...

The first U.S. soldier killed in Operation Anaconda this month in Afghanistan might have been hit by fire from a U.S. warplane, in an attack that caused a major setback in the battle, the Pentagon ...

Washington? The first U.S. soldier killed during the Operation Anaconda assault on al-Qaida this month in Afghanistan may have been hit by friendly fire, officials disclosed Friday. Previously, it had ...

Operation Anaconda is winding down. The biggest and deadliest battle of the Afghan war, it targeted Taliban and Al-Qaeda fighters dug into caves in a mountainous region not far from the Pakistani ...