Marjah
MARJAH, Afghanistan - The young Marine had a simple question for the farmer with the white beard: Have you seen any Taliban today?
The answer came within seconds - from insurgents hiding nearby who ended the conversation with bursts of automatic rifle fire that sent deadly rounds cracking overhead.
MARJAH, Afghanistan - Crouched on packed earth at a barricaded Marine encampment, the village elders issued their complaint: U.S.
MARJAH, Afghanistan - Elders in a former Taliban stronghold berated and challenged Afghanistan's president Sunday, delivering a litany of complaints about government corruption and NATO's military operations on the Afghan leader's first visit to Marjah.
MARJAH, Afghanistan - Afghan President Hamid Karzai heard a litany of complaints Sunday from residents of Marjah, the town in the south that thousands of U.S., NATO and Afghan troops just seized from the Taliban.
MARJAH, Afghanistan - One by one, residents of Marjah stood up before Afghan officials Monday to voice complaints - their houses damaged, relatives killed during this month's massive military offensive in southern Afghanistan.
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- Afghan army improving, not ready to go it alone
- Afghan government installed in Taliban stronghold
- NATO forces move to flush out final resistance
- US offensive yet to persuade Afghans in key town
- US Marines airdropped into Taliban-held territory
- NATO holds key Marjah roads, but hard battle ahead
- US: NATO controls Marjah's key roads, govt centers
- Taliban step up attacks in besieged Afghan town
- Snipers harass US, Afghan troops moving in Marjah
- NATO forces face Taliban mines, resistance
- Major attack on Taliban stronghold launched
