BAQUBAH, Iraq — As darkness fell and mortar rounds thudded in the distance, the soldiers of Attack Company’s 3rd Platoon fired up a barbecue, mixed some marinade in a cut-off water bottle and ...

“They are targeting me,” he told members of a Fort Lewis Stryker platoon. “The bomb was meant for me and my kids.” Lt. Chris Fradin, a platoon leader with the 4th Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, ...

The 21-ton Stryker attack vehicles pulled into the neighborhood of al-Whada just after noon. Their rear ramps dropped simultaneously, disgorging dozens of American infantrymen into the cold rain. The ...

One of the most lethal areas in Afghanistan for U.S. troops is the Arghandab Valley, a Taliban stronghold just outside the southern city of Kandahar. The Army's 5th Stryker Brigade Combat Team from ...

KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan - A 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment platoon is taking counterinsurgency tactics to heart and winning the trust and confidence of Afghan communities in Kandahar province, ...

JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. (Army News Service) -- In advance of a late-March Stryker gunnery qualification, Soldiers here honed their communications skills on Stryker Virtual Collective Trainers.

Army Stryker Brigade Combat teams are expected to add engineers, electronic warfare, more artillery and robot vehicles for the future fight. (Army) While many of the Army’s vehicles are expected to be ...

WASHINGTON - Three days after they killed an Afghan cleric named Mullah Adahdad, members of a U.S. Army platoon returned to his village. Tribal elders had complained to Army officers that the cleric ...

When a roadside bomb last week destroyed an American armored vehicle in southern Afghanistan, it was an all-too-familiar scene for the soldiers of... A Familiar Enemy For Platoon In Afghanistan One of ...