Southeast Missourian

Rebels capture port, second-largest city

MONROVIA, Liberia -- Rebels captured Liberia's refugee-choked second-largest city Monday, defeating President Charles Taylor's embattled forces on a new front and depriving him of his last significant ...
The Beaumont Enterprise

Bush Calls on Liberia Rebels to Hold Fire

The State Department called on rebel forces in Liberia on Monday to adhere to a cease-fire pledge and avoid any violence toward civilians, as French military helicopters evacuated Americans and other ...
Southeast Missourian

Liberia's cease-fire shatters as rebels take key crossing

MONROVIA, Liberia -- Liberian rebels on Wednesday shattered a day-old pledge to cease fire, lobbing mortars at neighborhoods crowded with refugees and briefly capturing a key bridge in the war-ruined ...
Billings Gazette

U.S. Marines land in Liberia as rebels lift siege of capital

MONROVIA, Liberia Rebels lifted their two-month siege of Liberia's starving capital Thursday, and dozens more U.S. troops came ashore, significantly increasing the American presence in support of West ...
Los Angeles Times

Liberian Rebels Still Terrorizing, U.N. Finds

TAPPETA, Liberia — The first U.N. peace missions to Liberia’s rebel-held east have found villages deserted except for looting insurgents, and terrorized civilians in the grip of rebels or lying dead ...