Marja

"They're not producing governance in Marja," the town in Helmand province where the first additional U.S. troops deployed, Eikenberry says.

The White House's Afghanistan defeatism Jackson Diehl 2010

The Taliban proved resilient in Marja, and Afghan governance was slow to take hold, but Belinsky pointed out that the district now has 300 trained policemen where there were none five months ago and four new schools, including a high school that reopened after more than six years.

U.S. military, civilian officials claim progress in Afghan war Joshua Partlow 2010

Military commanders, reminded of last spring's ballyhooed but ephemeral "victory" in Marja, say, yeah, but this is different.

Nick Mills: End Game? Nick Mills 2010

The Taliban proved resilient in Marja, and Afghan governance was slow to take hold, but Belinsky pointed out that the district now has 300 trained policemen where there were none five months ago, as well as four new schools, including a high school that reopened after more than six years.

U.S. military, civilian officials claim progress in Afghan war Joshua Partlow 2010

The delay follows the mixed results of the Marine push into Marja, which isn't free of the Taliban months after that hallmark offensive began.

Afghan Staying Power 2010

In spring 2010, such friendships were to be struck up in an area along the Helmand River called Marja, where U.S. engineers in the late 1950s had built a network of irrigation canals and urged Pashtun nomads to grow wheat, a crop since replaced by fields of opium poppies.

Magic and Mayhem Derek Leebaert 2010

At the same time, large swaths of the river valley remain without coalition forces, including Marja, which is near the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah.

Taliban Insurgents Reemerge By Ann Scott Tyson 2009

United States troops are currently engaged in an assault on a reputedly major Taliban stronghold at a place called Marja in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province ....

Propeller Most Popular Stories GrainOfSand 2010

United States troops are currently engaged in an assault on a reputedly major Taliban stronghold at a place called Marja in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province ....

Propeller Most Popular Stories GrainOfSand 2010

After a year of cautious debate and costly deployments, President Obama finally launched his new Afghan war strategy at 2: 40 am on February 13, 2010, in a remote market town called Marja in southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province.

AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed Tomdispatch.com Alfred W. McCoy 2010