But video of Monday's raid shows that activists armed with clubs beat Israeli naval commandos.

VOA: special.2010.06.05

Volunteers help soldiers and police at roadblocks, and village rangers armed with automatic weapons provide additional security for convoys.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

The battle plan was also flawed; for instance,commandos were armed with paint guns because they expected passive resistance.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12

Most rallies were without incident but in Makassar in South Sulawesi, students armed with rocks and wooden planks clashed with anti-riot police.

VOA: standard.2009.12.10

Assailants armed with guns and explosives burst into the Baksanskaya power plant around dawn.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Police continue to confront youths armed with rocks on a weekly basis.

VOA: standard.2009.04.08

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) says armed with assault rifles and heavy machine guns raided an oil facility jointly operated by Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron in Rivers state.

VOA: standard.2009.12.21

In her talk with reporters, Secretary Clinton praised the Calderon administration's performance in the drug fight, saying that Mexican forces are often out-gunned by drug gangs armed with military-style weapons bought in the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

Ahlu-Sunna spokesman Sheik Abdullahi Sheik AbuYusuf says heavily-armed al-Shabab fighters attacked Dhusamareb town early Saturday with gunfire and mortars.

VOA: standard.2010.01.02

Police say the survivors exchanged gunfire with the insurgents, killing seven of the heavily armed guerrillas in the encounter Saturday night.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

"Those who gave their lives today came to Afghanistan, armed not with guns or bullets,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Military observers say Mr.Medvedev's rearmament program is designed in part to offset dissatisfaction in the ranks with a Kremlin plan to downsize Russia's armed forces.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Miliband thanked the Iraqi authorities for their efforts in Moore's release and praised the government's process of national reconciliation with armed groups prepared to renounce violence.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

The Philippines has been grappling with poverty,corruption, armed conflicts and deep divisions for decades.

VOA: standard.2010.06.30

Police officials in Multan say at least two armed militants drove a vehicle loaded with about 1,000 kilograms of explosives into a complex housing an office of the country's ISI spy agency.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

On the military side, the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Democrat Carl Levin, says the plan calls for an extra 4,000 US trainers to work with the Afghan armed forces.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The group Nonviolence International South East Asia said recently the number of troops and armed volunteers, together with rights violations by both the government and insurgents, have created a climate of fear and terror.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Democrat Ike Skelton, who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, said fact that Iran concealed the existence of the enrichment site is not consistent with its claims that the facility will be used only for peaceful purposes.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25