About 2,000 troops from the U.S.-led military coalition were engaged in "close-in" combat Monday with small pockets of al Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the rugged terrain of northeastern Afghanistan ...

When modern Air Force video enhancement technology shed light on the events that transpired during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan, Master Sergeant John Chapman's story became more heroic than ...

John Chapman, a combat controller who died fighting al Qaida terrorists on an Afghanistan mountaintop on March 4, 2002, during Operation Anaconda. Lackland is where the Air Force conducts basic ...

Operation Anaconda was the largest battle fought by American conventional forces in Afghanistan. It took place in a remote valley at very high altitude where the thin air hampered helicopter ...