About 1,800 Iowa Army National Guard soldiers, including those from the unit in Fort Dodge, will head to the Middle East this ...

But since the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, it has come to describe the lethal variety of roadside and car bombs used by insurgents in Iraq and, increasingly, Afghanistan. These devices ...

Bill Fletcher and his men were in the Arghandab River Valley, just north of Kandahar in Afghanistan ... Fletcher called in artillery fire to cut off the enemy’s escape route.