MARJAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Marine Lance Corporal Andrew Koenig is living proof Taliban snipers have been getting more accurate in Afghanistan. In a gunbattle this week, the 21-year-old from ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — An ex-Marine sniper now studying at Michigan State University has produced a video documentary dedicated to 25 members of a unit who were killed in fighting in Afghanistan.

Johnathan Taylor served as a scout sniper in the United States Marine Corps for eight years. He is now the president of the USMC Scout Sniper Association, an organization helping veteran snipers ...

Taliban machine-gunners with two consecutive shots at a range of 2,475 metres in Helmand province, Afghanistan, in 2009. Inadvertently he had taken the world sniping record using an L115A3, the ...

An ex-sniper has bravely opened up on the tragic reality for many former servicemen, and says more of his comrades took their own lives than were killed on the frontline. Alex Smith, who joined as a ...

While snipers usually operate in teams of two, it's still a lonely existence since silence and cautious movement are vital to survival as they hunt down human prey on missions that can span several ...

Canadian forces in Afghanistan are among the first to test a new acoustic recognition tool that pinpoints the exact location and direction of sniper fire. Scientists at Defense Research and ...

Alex Lemons, a former Marine sergeant who deployed to Iraq three times – including once as scout sniper – reflects on the video of four Marines urinating on the corpses of three dead Taliban in ...