A new study has found that exposure to military burn pits increases the risk of mental health conditions and brain injuries, ...

U.S. Army soldiers watch garbage burn in a burn pit at Forward Operating Base Azzizulah in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan, in 2013. Andrew Burton / Reuters file ...

Infamously, a base in Kandahar province had a TGI Fridays restaurant, until it was shut down in mid-2013—a Kentucky Fried Chicken, too. The mission, meanwhile, stumbled through the years ...

A soldier in the Afghan National Army (ANA) walks past a burn pit at a command outpost recently handed over to the ANA from the United States Army on March 22, 2013 in Kandahar Province, Zhari ...