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Baghdad Residents Ponder New Way of Life on Second Anniversary of Iraq War 纪念伊拉克战争二周年巴格达居民考虑新的生活方式 At least three Iraqi policemen have been killed and sev
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 13 December 2007 Islamic insurgents in Somalia have shelled the main market in the capital Mogadishu, killing at least 13. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the transitional government's security chief says his forces have
Israeli warplanes have pounded a tunnel leading from the Gaza Strip to Egypt. Israel believes the tunnel was being used to smuggle explosives to the Palestinian enclave. A Palestinian man works at one of the tunnels linking the southern Gaza Strip t
By Cathy Majtenyi Nairobi 28 December 2006 Aid agencies say recent fighting in Somalia has taken a humanitarian toll. Hundreds of people have been wounded, thousands have fled their homes and tens of thousands are cut off from food relief they have
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 19 July 2007 The 53-member African Union says its peacekeeping mission in Somalia has been extended another six months because U.N. forces are not ready to take over peacekeeping duties in the war-torn country. Uganda, the only
By Margaret Besheer Beirut 22 August 2006 More than a month of bombing and fighting in Lebanon between Hezbollah militants and Israel killed more than a thousand Lebanese and destroyed much of the nation's infrastructure. The Mediterranean country'
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 22 June 2007 In another major setback for international efforts to bring peace to Somalia, a violent power struggle between two sub-clans in the port city of Kismayo is fueling fear that an all-out clan war could erupt at any ti
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 26 April 2006 Soldiers stand guard at the entrance of the Sri Lankan army headquarters Sri Lanka's military has launched fresh strikes on Tamil Tiger rebel areas in the co
By Jim Malone Washington 25 May 2006 A boy scavenges for saleable items at Red Beach dump, on Tarawa, Kiribati Monday is Memorial Day in the United States, a holiday set aside to honor the nation's war dead. VOA national correspondent Jim Malone has
Four Palestinian militants have been killed in an upsurge of violence in and around the Gaza Strip. Robert Berger reports from the VOA bureau in Jerusalem. Palestinians evacuate the body of a Palestinian into Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Sunday 16 N
Top brass of Sri Lanka's Army say they are astonished by the amount of weapons and ammunition they have seized, as soldiers retake territory from the Tamil Tiger rebels. A Sri Lankan soldier uncovers weapons which according to the army were captured
The United Nations top political official says that in the two months since unilateral cease-fires ended a 22-day Israeli offensive against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip, the situation remains fraught with impasse and uncertainty. UN Under-Secre
Iraq Unrest Stirs Emotions in US Veterans 美国退伍军人因伊拉克动荡局势激起情感 PARIS, ILLINOIS Paris, Illinois is a patriotic town awash in red, white and blue. American Legion Post Commander Tom Noel said its been that way since th
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 01 October 2007 The African Union says it is still trying to find out what prompted a large group of rebels to launch a deadly attack on its peacekeeping force in Sudan's western Darfur region on Saturday. At least 10 A.U. sold
By Nico Colombant Dakar 11 November 2006 Clashes between fighters loyal to rival presidential candidates in the Democratic Republic of Congo left two civilians dead on Saturday as fresh partial election results showed the gap between the contenders
By Barry Newhouse Islamabad 26 October 2007 Pro-Taliban militants in northwest Pakistan have clashed with paramilitary forces, a day after a deadly bomb attack on a troop transport truck in the area. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad that a
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 13 February 2007 Uganda's parliament on Tuesday approved sending 1,500 peacekeepers to Somalia. Faced with a worsening security situation in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, the country's prime minister says a robust peacekeeping
By Meredith Buel Washington 11 April 2008 The top U.S. commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus, has condemned the assassination of a senior aide to radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in the Iraqi holy city of Najaf. VOA correspondent Meredith B
By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 13 June 2008 Violence in the Somali capital Mogadishu and elsewhere has increased dramatically since a U.N.-backed peace agreement was signed Monday in Djibouti between Somalia's transitional federal government and a moderate f
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 04 November 2009 Israel says it has seized an arms shipment on the high seas and it is pointing a finger at Iran. Israeli naval commandos stormed onto a ship loaded with weapons near Cyprus and took it to Israel's southern