Marines

Marines in key Afghan town face full-blown insurgency (AP)

October 7th, 2010

In this Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2010 photo, hospital Corpsman Matthew Heger, foreground, 24, of Seattle, Wa., fires on insurgents during a gunbattle in Marjah, Afghanistan. Heger is serving with the 2nd Battalion, 9th Marines' Echo Company, which arrived in Marjah in July. Eight months on, the Taliban are still in Marjah in force, waging a full-blown guerrilla insurgency that rages daily across a bomb-riddled landscape of agricultural fields and irrigation trenches. (AP Photo/Todd Pitman)AP - The young Marine had a simple question for the farmer with the white beard: Have you seen any Taliban today?


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Mexican marines arrest presumed drug kingpin (AP)

September 12th, 2010

A Mexican marine stands guard on a street on the outskirts of Puebla September 12, 2010. Mexican marines captured Sergio Villarreal, dubbed 'El Grande', a top lieutenant of a leading drug cartel, on Sunday as authorities intensified their campaign against drug kingpins, local media reported. REUTERS/Stringer (MEXICO - Tags: CRIME LAW POLITICS)AP - Mexican marines captured Sergio Villarreal Barragan, a presumed leader of the embattled Beltran Leyva cartel who appears on a list of the country’s most-wanted fugitives, in a raid…

Marines find 72 bodies in northern Mexico (AP)

August 25th, 2010

Federal policemen and explosive experts work at the site of a car bomb attack in Ciudad Juarez July 16, 2010. A Mexican drug cartel was responsible for a cell phone-detonated car bomb that killed four people in a city on the U.S. border, state security forces said. REUTERS/Alejandro BringasAP - Mexican marines found the dumped bodies of 72 people at a rural location in northern Mexico following a shootout with suspected drug cartel gunmen that left one marine…

US Marines arrive to help Pakistan flood survivors (AP)

August 12th, 2010

Flood affected people wade through water to reach safer areas in Multan, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010. Pakistani flood survivors already short on food and water began the fasting month of Ramadan on Thursday, a normally festive, social time marked this year by misery and fears of an uncertain future.(AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary)AP - A shipload of U.S. Marines and helicopters arrived to boost relief efforts in flooded Pakistan on Thursday, but the prime minister told The Associated Press his country needs…

2 Marines killed during Afghan prisoner escape bid (AP)

August 9th, 2010

FILE - In this July 21, 2010 file photo, a Marine carry team lifts a transfer case containing the remains of Cpl. Paul J. Miller at Dover Air Force Base, Del. According to the Department of Defense, Miller, of Traverse City, Mich., died while supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. NATO announced Friday, July 30, 2010 that six more U.S. troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly 9-year-old war. (AP Photo/Steve Ruark)AP - Two U.S. Marines were killed during an attempted prisoner escape at the weekend in southern Afghanistan.


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Marines, Afghan troops to stay months in Marjah (AP)

February 28th, 2010

U.S. Marines 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment look out at at a rain storm from a room in an Afghan compound where they stayed for the night in Marjah in Afghanistan's Helmand province on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)AP - More than 2,000 U.S. Marines and about 1,000 Afghan troops who stormed the Taliban town of Marjah as part of a major NATO offensive against a resurgent Taliban…

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