By Challiss McDonough Cairo 03 February 2008 Egypt has closed the border with the Gaza Strip, ending 11 days of unrestricted movement for Palestinians. VOA Correspondent Challiss McDonough has more from Cairo. Egyptian security forces used barbed wir...
By Challiss McDonough Cairo 23 January 2008 Residents of the Gaza Strip have flooded across the border into Egypt to stock up on food and other supplies after militants blew a huge hole in the border barricade, eventually opening the wall completely....
By Jeff Swicord Jerusalem 27 November 2007 Withthe U.S.-sponsored Mideast conference underway in Annapolis Maryland, borders are one of the issues on the agenda. Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, Jewish settlements and Israel's separation barrier in t...
By Sonja Pace Habur Crossing, on the Turkey-Iraq Border 06 November 2007 Tensions again loom along the Turkey-Iraq border with a Turkish military incursion into northern Iraq and economic sanctions still a possibility despite diplomatic efforts to ca...
By Greg Flakus Houston 02 November 2007 The US Border Patrol is expanding a program along the Mexican border in Texas through which illegal aliens are prosecuted and are subject to fines and imprisonment for illegal entry. As VOA's Greg Flakus report...
By Sonja Pace Diyarbakir, Turkey 01 November 2007 Turkey has just hosted an international conference on how best to stabilize Iraq despite being on an increasingly poor footing with its eastern neighbor. Ankara accuses Iraq of sheltering separatist K...
By Greg Flakus Houston 16 October 2007 Mayors of several Texas towns on or near the US border with Mexico are filing legal actions to stop the federal government from building a planned security fence to deter illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. A...
By Phuong Tran Abeche, Chad 04 October 2007 The African Union and United Nations are still trying to send peacekeepers to the troubled border area between Chad and Sudan. Fighting among different rebel groups and government troops from both countrie...
By Chad Bouchard Mae Sot, Thailand 03 October 2007 Communities along Thailand's border with Burma are closely watching for signs of a new wave of refugees following violence in Rangoon over the past week. As Chad Bouchard reports from the Thai border...
By Barry Newhouse Khanaqin, Iraq 03 March 2007 The daily attacks in Iraq's cities often overshadow the problems in smaller towns. But as hundreds-of-thousands of Iraqis flee Baghdad and other major cities, small town officials face growing problems....