Combat Engineers recount reasons for success in Afghanistan bomb-clearing mission By Sgt. Michael J. MacLeod January 25, 2013 ...

Engineers carry high-speed equipment such as the antipersonnel obstacle breaching system to clear barbed wires and landmines. In 2013, combat engineers’ primary task in Afghanistan was to keep ...

Sandro Cardenas, 26, a specialist in the California National Guard, is one of about 100 soldiers with the Petaluma-based 235th Engineer Company bound for a one-year combat tour in Afghanistan.

During his 2012 re-election campaign, President Barack Obama pledged to "end the war in Afghanistan in 2014." As straightforward as that might sound, disentangling U.S. involvement in Afghanistan ...

Australia has closed its main military base in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan, and the country’s final batch of combat troops are on their way home. The departure marks the end of several years ...

When she was deployed in Afghanistan, she ran combat stress control to help other soldiers cope during several mass casualty events. In her personal life, she was facing her own tragedies.