Operation Eastern Resolve in Afghanistan
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}August 13: U.S. Marines are fighting the Taliban militants in the city Dahaneh in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. The militants have fought back, lobbing firepower at the troops with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and heavy machine gun fire. (FNC)
August 13: U.S. Marines are fighting the Taliban militants in the city Dahaneh in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. The militants have fought back, lobbing firepower at the troops with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and heavy machine gun fire. (FNC)
August 13: U.S. Marines are fighting the Taliban militants in the city Dahaneh in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. The militants have fought back, lobbing firepower at the troops with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and heavy machine gun fire. (FNC)
August 13: U.S. Marines are fighting the Taliban militants in the city Dahaneh in the Helmand province of Afghanistan. The militants have fought back, lobbing firepower at the troops with rocket-propelled grenades, mortars, and heavy machine gun fire. (FNC)
August 12: A force of 500 U.S. Marine and Afghan National Army soldiers launch anti-Taliban offensive, Operation Eastern Resolve, in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. (FNC)
August 12: A force of 500 U.S. Marine and Afghan National Army soldiers launch anti-Taliban offensive, Operation Eastern Resolve, in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. (FNC)
August 12: A force of 500 U.S. Marine and Afghan National Army soldiers launch anti-Taliban offensive, Operation Eastern Resolve, in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. (FNC)
August 12: A force of 500 U.S. Marine and Afghan National Army soldiers launch anti-Taliban offensive, Operation Eastern Resolve, in Afghanistan's Helmand Province. (FNC)
August 12: U.S. Marines move to take positions on a mountainside at the start of Operation Eastern Resolve against the Taliban just outside the village of Dahaneh in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (AP)
August 12: Afghan National Army soldiers search for the source of gunfire on a hillside while traveling in a convoy to the village of Dahaneh to participate in Operation Eastern Resolve with U.S. Marines of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (AP)
August 12: U.S. Marines of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment take a position on a rooftop while fighting the Taliban in the village of Dahaneh in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (AP)
August 12: A U.S. Marine from Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment watches over a detainee in the room of a home as fighting against the Taliban takes place from the rooftop in the village of Dahaneh in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. (AP)
August 12: A U.S. Marine of Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment fires on Taliban positions from a rooftop in the village of Dahaneh in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan. Operation Eastern Resolve launched on Wednesday morning in an attempt to push Taliban from the village which is a key commerce town in the province. (AP)