Just call Jaco van Gass Mr Indestructible. The Parachute Regiment veteran, who lost his lower-left arm after being hit by a rocket-propelled grenade in Afghanistan, stormed to cycling gold in Paris ...

This Stars and Stripes image from June 2007 shows soldiers sweeping for mines in Afghanistan’s Ghazni Province.

GRAFENWOEHR, Germany — The memory of an American paratrooper who died in Afghanistan in 2005 lives on with a new designation at the Army’s vast rural Bavarian training ground. A landing zone was ...