By Al Pessin Pentagon 24 January 2008 The American officer responsible for helping develop an Afghan Air Force says the small corps is growing steadily, but will not be ready to even begin participating in combat operations for about five years. The...
By Al Pessin Washington 11 January 2008 The top U.S. military officer says he would like to be able to send 3,000 Marines to Afghanistan, as regional commanders have requested. But he says senior leaders are concerned about the impact the deployment...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 11 December 2007 At least four Palestinians have been killed in an Israeli ground incursion into the Gaza Strip. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, the violence is casting a shadow over efforts to revive...
By Benjamin Sand Islamabad 09 December 2007 NATO and Afghan forces have launched a major offensive in Southern Afghanistan, targeting a key Taliban stronghold. From Pakistan, VOA Correspondent Benjamin Sand reports the operation has already captured...
By Noel King Kigali 04 December 2007 Fighting between forces loyal to dissident General Laurent Nkunda and the Congolese Army has forced the U.N. World Food program to suspend the delivery of food aid to between 250,000 and 300,000 vulnerable people....
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 17 October 2007 The World Food Program (WFP) says Somali security forces have stormed the U.N. compound in the capital Mogadishu and arrested the WFP local director. As Nick Wadhams reports from Nairobi, the World Food Program...
By Al Pessin Pentagon 21 September 2007 The commander of coalition forces in Baghdad says there are not enough Iraqi forces in the city to control it without coalition help, but he says the combined U.S. and Iraqi force is making good progress in def...
By Nick Wadhams Nairobi 20 September 2007 Two senior U.S. officials in East Africa say the situation in Somalia is improving despite continued violence. They have pledged American support for a joint Arab-African peacekeeping force for the shattered...
By VOA News 19 September 2007 A powerful typhoon has brought wind and rain to eastern China and has forced changes in the schedule at the 16-nation Women's World Cup football (soccer) tournament. VOA's Jim Stevenson is in Shanghai where the heavily f...
By Cindy Saine Washington 10 August 2007 In Iraq Friday, a car bomb killed at least eight people and wounded dozens more in the northern Kurdish city of Kirkuk. But U.S. military officials are praising the performance of Iraqi security forces in Bagh...