[00:01.23]3 The two opposing armies in the civil war [00:04.55]in England appear to be preparing [00:06.74]for what experts predict could be the decisive [00:09.42]battle of the conflict. [00:11.35]Martin Smith reports. [00:13.06]There have been heav...
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U.S. military says more than 1000 NATO troops, mostly from the United States, have launched a major offensive against a key Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Military officials say Afghan forces are also participating in the operation in He...
British forces turned over command of military operations in the southern Iraqi city of Basra to US troops on Sunday. A truck bomb that exploded Tuesday in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, however, indicates that the military situation in many plac...
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...
In his first major military move as Commander-in-Chief, President Barack Obama has approved a nearly 50 percent increase in the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, on top of a smaller increase ordered by former-President Bush and already implement...
