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 ...

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 ...

As rebel forces closed in on Liberia’s former president, Charles Taylor, last summer, most newspaper accounts gave Americans in-depth coverage of the fighting -- and only a single sentence or so as to ...