By Al Pessin Pentagon 29 September 2009 The U.S. Defense Department says two U.S. troops and a Philippine Marine killed in the southern Philippines on Tuesday were targeted by an improvised explosive device - a weapon that has killed more U.S. troop

发表于:2018-12-08 / 阅读(49) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2009年(九月)

This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. This week marked Barack Obama's first month as president -- and his first major action as commander-in-chief. He approved seventeen thousand more troops for Afghanistan. The security situation is getting w

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Challenges Ahead for Foreign Troops in Mali French President Francois Hollande got a hero's welcome Saturday in the liberated northern town of Timbuktu. Hollande's visit marked an end to what French and Malian officials say has been a successful firs

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(53) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2013年(二月)

By Scott Stearns White House 17 February 2006 President Bush says peace in Sudan would help end attacks by Ugandan rebels based in southern Sudan. Mr. Bush also called for more troops to protect Sudan

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By Alisha Ryu Nairobi 30 January 2007 Former diplomats and Horn of Africa experts are warning that U.S.-led efforts to stabilize Somalia through the deployment of an African peacekeeping force are likely to backfire, unless the country's weak and fr

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Ethiopia has announced its intention to withdraw its troops from neighboring Somalia by the end of this year. But as correspondent Peter Heinlein reports from Addis Ababa, Ethiopian officials have assured the African Union their forces will remain o

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Somalia's Ethiopia-backed transitional government has agreed on a date for the withdrawal of Ethiopian troops from two major Somali cities in a new cease-fire deal between the government and an opposition faction. But VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu in

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US Troops to Hand Over Lead Fighting Role to Afghans Obama said American troops in Afghanistan will move to a supporting role several months earlier than expected. Our troops will have a different mission, training, advising, assisting Afghan forces.

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Obama, Maliki Hail 'New Chapter' for Iraq Without US Troops U.S. President Barack Obama and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki say their countries will maintain strong security, diplomatic and economic ties after the last U.S. combat forces withdra

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US Troops Leave Iraq, Controversy Over War Continues The war in Iraq lasted nearly nine years and as the remaining U.S. troops pull out of the country, Middle East analysts continue to disagree over the success or failure of the mission. As military

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By Peter Heinlein Addis Ababa 16 November 2009 A rebel group in Ethiopia's restive Ogaden region says it has killed 626 government troops in heavy fighting near the border with neighboring Somalia. The government has dismissed the claim as 'a comple

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The Pentagon Tuesday called on NATO allies and other countries with troops in Afghanistan to maintain their current higher troop levels even after next week's presidential election. ISAF soldiers patroling the outskirts of Feyzabad, northern Afghani

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By Margaret Besheer Tyre, Lebanon 02 September 2006 The first major deployment of international forces to monitor a ceasefire between Hezbollah militants and Israel began arriving in Lebanon Saturday. The Italian contingent will help keep the peace,

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By Lisa Bryant Paris 18 July 2006 U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, left, gestures as he adresses the media while standing next to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso at EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday July 18, 2006 U.N. Sec

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By Al Pessin Munich 08 February 2008 U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he believes some NATO allies will provide more troops for Afghanistan soon, as he has been urging. And he says he will use his current trip to Europe to try to convince ord

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By Benjamin Sand Kabul 14 March 2006 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrapped up a two-day visit to Afghanistan Tuesday. The newly elected Canadian leader told reporters that the foreign troops

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U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani met at the White House Wednesday to talk about Iraq's provincial election law and the need to finish talks on an agreement governing U.S. troops in Iraq. VOA White House Correspondent Sco

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India is deploying additional troops in Kashmir, which has been engulfed in week-long protests triggered by a dispute between Hindus and Muslims over allotment of land for Hindu pilgrims. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, at least nine peop

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By Cindy Saine Washington 02 April 2008 The top U.S. military commander says the Pentagon will continue to withdraw five combat brigades from Iraq through July as planned, despite recent violence in Baghdad and Basra. But on Capitol Hill, three retir

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By Sabina Castelfranco Khartoum 14 March 2008 Egyptian troops will begin arriving in Darfur in the next few days as the combined U.N. / African Union Peacekeeping force for Darfur (UNAMID) continues its deployment. U.N. officials say full deployment

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