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The main militant group in Nigeria's oil-rich southern region, has vowed massive retaliation for Saturday's offensive on its positions by the army. Gilbert da Costa has more in this report from Abuja. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger D
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 28 June 2007 The foreign affairs secretary for Somalia's ousted Islamic Courts Union has confirmed to VOA that he has received an invitation from the country's western-backed transitional government to attend peace talks next mo
By Patricia Nunan New Delhi 20 January 2006 The government of Nepal has imposed a dawn to dusk curfew across the capital and put opposition leaders under house arrest to stop an anti-government rally
By Scott Stearns White House 18 March 2006 George Bush President Bush says U.S. troops are making progress in Iraq, three years after the start of fighting there. Two-thirds of Americans say they disa
By Nancy-Amelia Collins Jakarta 23 March 2006 The Australian government has granted temporary visas to 42 Indonesian asylum seekers, in a move Jakarta called
By Amberin Zaman Hakkari 29 January 2007 Turkish troops head toward the Iraq border in Hakkari (File photo - 5 May 2006) Turkey's bid to join the European Union has ushered a flurry of reforms. Among them are measures that enable the country's long r
U.S Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Sunday. The U.S. Senator, who is traveling as part of a congressional delegation, also met with U.S. troops and military commanders. Ayaz Gul repor
By Siri Nyrop Nangahar Province, Afghanistan 27 May 2008 Afghanistan supplies virtually all of the world's illegal opium. Last year, the country's drug trade was a$4-billionbusiness, half of which alone was produced in the south where the fighting ag
Six Nigerian soldiers have been sentenced to life imprisonment for selling guns and other weapons to militants and criminals in the Niger Delta. Prosecutors said the arms sales had contributed to the violence in the oil-rich region. For VOA, Gilbert
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has reaffirmed his intention to withdraw American combat forces from Iraq after taking office. Mr. Obama spoke as a top member of the Bush administration admitted that U.S. efforts to stabilize Iraq after the 2003 i
A British woman who had been helping the handicapped in Afghanistan has become the latest victim of Taliban violence targeting foreign aid workers in the country. VOA Correspondent Steve Herman reports from Kabul that Afghanistan's government and ai
A suspected U.S. missile strike has killed 20 people in Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal regions. The attack came hours before Pakistani and Afghan tribal leaders and government representatives began two days of talks about the Taliban insurgenc
NATO ministers meeting in the Belgian capital have thrown their weight behind a U.S. plan to reorganize the military command in Afghanistan, to better handle an influx of new troops. A general view of NATO defense ministers' meeting in Brussels, 12
By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 21 September 2009 Since 2004 Thailand has seen an upswing in violence in its troubled south, where an insurgency has resulted in close to 4,000 deaths. The attacks seemed to be slowing down until June when a massacre at a m
Thailand's army has increasingly turned to civilian volunteers to boost security in the troubled southern provinces. But rights activists fear arming civilians spreads more guns in a region that has suffered a bloody insurgency for five years. In so
Australian forces in Afghanistan are urging the government in Canberra to send more combat advisers to the troubled country despite waning public support for the war. The International Security Assistance Force wants more Australian personnel to tra
One of the top American military commanders in Afghanistan said progress in the eastern part of the country is strong, but more effort is needed in the south, where Taliban forces have fought Afghan and coalition troops to what he calls a stalemate.
Iraq Attacks Cloud Debate over Syria Intervention Workers clear rubble and twisted metal after a bomb attack in the town of Taji, north of Baghdad on Monday. The town's Sunni community was one of the worst hit with more than 40 people killed, as bomb
Groups Resisting Global Polio Vaccination Efforts Health officials in Pakistan say they are redoubling efforts to vaccinate every child against polio after 198 new cases were reported in the country last year, the largest number anywhere in the world
Afghan National Army soldiers march during training exercise in Kabul [file photo] NATO has discovered it is not well equipped to train a new national police force for Afghanistan and has turned to the European Union and private contractors for guida