U.S. troops from Combat Outpost Keating patrol northern Konar Province in March 2010, about six months after their small unit held off a massive attack by the Taliban that killed eight soldiers.

WASHINGTON — Saluting Clinton Romesha for embodying the soldier's creed of never leaving behind a fallen comrade, President Barack Obama on Monday bestowed the Medal of Honor on him for courageously ...

On paper Rod Lurie would seem the ideal director to be helming "The Outpost," a new movie adapted from CNN anchor Jake Tappert's book about of the Battle of Kamdesh on Oct. 3, 2009. Approximately 400 ...

KABUL (Reuters) - A delay of months in closing a remote combat outpost with "no tactical or strategic value" led to the deaths of eight U.S. soldiers last year in one of the worst battles of the ...

In a new book, the CNN anchor tells the story of Combat Outpost Keating. The ill-fated American military base was in a remote Afghan valley, and on Oct. 3, 2009, it became the site of one of the ...