“What happened in Afghanistan was a systemic breakdown of ... Vargas-Andrews, who was part of a sniper team stationed at the airport, told the committee that, before the attack, members of ...

During one of the War in Afghanistan's worst battles, 21-year-old scout sniper Dakota Meyer took one brave risk. After ...

Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews, a Marine sniper who served in Afghanistan during the American withdrawal, recounted the ordeal in testimony before the House Foreign Affairs Committee Wednesday ...

Taliban sniper Ainudeen is now the Director of Land and Urban Development in Balkh province When the Taliban took power in Afghanistan last August, the lives of many residents were transformed.

Nick Ranstad was twenty minutes into a nap in Kunar Provice, northeastern Afghanistan when his spotter woke him up. Four militants were in his sight. The rest was history.

The Afghanistan Analysts Network ... a Taliban commander, a sniper, a deputy commander and two fighters,” Samim wrote in his report. “Broadly speaking, all of our interviewees preferred ...

The sniper was one member of two teams in the Kajaki district of Afghanistan's Helmand Province in April 2012. The first team consisted of two privates, one spotter and one shooter while the ...

Today, we’re looking at the latest sniper rifles in use by American forces. Though withdrawn from service in 2017, the Mk12 was used throughout the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by Navy SEALs ...

"The sniper training program has been around for a long time. It's the foundation, and it's been retooled from lessons learned in Afghanistan. We've built it to be the best," he said. 3.

Click here to see every sniper rifle currently used by the US Military. Though withdrawn from service in 2017, the Mk12 was used throughout the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan by Navy SEALs ...

The distance of that shot was 2,460 yards – almost a mile and a half – and it stood as a record until broken in 2002 by Canadian sniper Arron Perry in Afghanistan. (The current record for ...

The world record was once held by British sniper Craig Harrison, after he killed Taliban fighter in Afghanistan in 2009 from a distance of 1.54 miles. A separate record is held by another British ...