Feb
21
2010
Outgunned Taliban mounting tough fight in Marjah
(AP)
AP – Outnumbered and outgunned, Taliban fighters are mounting a tougher fight than expected in Marjah, Afghan officials said Sunday, as U.S.-led forces converged on a pocket of militants in a western section of the town.
Go to Source
Feb
20
2010
Live From Washington! It’s Obama health care drama
(AP)
AP – Coming soon to daytime television: America’s long-running civic drama over how to provide better health care to more of its people without breaking the bank.
Go to Source
Feb
19
2010
Woods heads back to therapy after speech
(AP)
AP – Tiger Woods will return to therapy after he ends a three-month silence and speaks about his infidelity and his future plans.
Go to Source
Feb
18
2010
Missionaries freed by Haitian judge land in US
(AP)
AP – Eight American missionaries freed by a Haitian judge landed in Miami early Thursday, nearly three weeks after the group was charged with kidnapping for trying to take 33 children out of the quake-stricken country.
Go to Source
Feb
16
2010
Bayh the latest exit as moderates leave Congress
(AP)
AP – The moderate middle is disappearing from Congress. Evan Bayh is just the latest senator to forgo a re-election bid, joining a growing line of pragmatic, find-a-way politicians who are abandoning Washington. Still here: ever-more-polarized colleagues locked in gridlock — exactly what voters say they don’t like about politics in the nation’s capital.
Go to Source
Feb
15
2010
Taliban step up attacks in besieged Afghan town
(AP)
AP – Taliban fighters stepped up counterattacks Monday against Marines and Afghan soldiers in the militant stronghold of Marjah, slowing the allied advance to a crawl despite Afghan government claims that the insurgents are broken and on the run.
Go to Source
Feb
14
2010
NATO rockets miss target, kill 12 Afghan civilians
(AP)
AP – Twelve Afghans died Sunday when two rockets fired at insurgents missed their target and struck a house during the second day of NATO’s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants’ grip on the country’s dangerous south.
Go to Source
Feb
14
2010
NATO rockets miss target, kill 12 Afghan civilians
(AP)
AP – Twelve Afghans died Sunday when two rockets fired at insurgents missed their target and struck a house during the second day of NATO’s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants’ grip on the country’s dangerous south.
Go to Source
Feb
14
2010
NATO rockets miss target, kill 12 Afghan civilians
(AP)
AP – Twelve Afghans died Sunday when two rockets fired at insurgents missed their target and struck a house during the second day of NATO’s most ambitious effort yet to break the militants’ grip on the country’s dangerous south.
Go to Source
Feb
13
2010
Taliban claim they retain control of Marjah
(AP)
AP – A Taliban spokesman says the Afghan insurgents are still in control of the southern town of Marjah amid ongoing fighting with NATO and Afghan forces.
Go to Source