Violence in Iraq has dropped significantly during the past year, but insurgents continue to stage sporadic attacks on security forces and civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

We are a hundred thousand soldiers and we going to have a thousand civilians.

在阿富汗我们有100，000，士兵,只有1000多的平民。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

American soldiers and Iraqi civilians are dying daily in Iraq, in a war we rushed into under full straight tenses t get out of.

在伊拉克，每天都有美国士兵或伊拉克平民丧生，我们迫不及待地投入这场战争,现在却无法脱身，and，now，can’

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

In front of the National Monument, protesters lined the grass with symbolic tombstones honoring soldiers and civilians killed in recent U.S.military action.

VOA: standard.2010.03.20

Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the death of police officers, soldiers and civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.03.25

U.N.spokesman Gordon Weiss tells VOA News that food, medicine and shelter are desperately needed for both those inside in the conflict area and civilians who have recently escaped.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

But earlier Wednesday, Pentagon Spokesman Geoff Morrell said senior officials are considering whether a full counterinsurgency campaign, with large numbers of troops and civilians, is the right approach.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

In February,more than 1,000 officers,veterans, and civilians rallied against military reforms in a protest sponsored by the Communist Party on Defender of the Motherland Day, a Russian national holiday.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

They were on their way to attend a memorial service to commemorate the murder of some 22,000 Polish military officers and civilians who were massacred by the Soviet Union's secret police during World War II.

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

The Afghanistan policy calls for establishing security in cities and towns, protecting civilians even if it means more danger for coalition troops.

VOA: special.2010.06.26

On Friday,the UN human rights office expressed concern about unconfirmed reports of kidnapping and abuse of civilians by fighters loyal to Alassane Ouattara.

VOA: special.2011.04.02

But foreign and Afghan troops killed more civilians last year than the year before.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

And they have suggested that Taliban fighters were responsible for killing some civilians.

VOA: special.2009.05.09

But thousands of civilians reportedly have been killed and many thousands more wounded.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

The two other crew members were civilians John Swigert and Fred Haise.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Shots were fired. Four soldiers and twelve civilians were killed.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

LRA raids in the Central African Republic have also displaced thousands of civilians, disrupting agricultural production and increasing food insecurity.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

The Pakistani government has repeatedly said such attacks kill mostly civilians and only serve as a recruitment tool for Islamic militants.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

He said a surge of foreign civilians to help with economic development and a variety of other issues is also needed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Massive,coordinated blasts,in August, October,December and January, targeted other high profile sites, killing some 400 people, most of them also civilians.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

"This latest crime can be added to the list of crimes committed by U.S.troops against Iraqi journalists and Iraqi civilians."

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

Among other things, it cited accounts of the Tamil Tigers recruiting children as combatants and using civilians as human shields.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

The best you can hope is to manage the hostilities and try to minimize the number of civilians who die,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

But while the military releases daily updates for soldier and Taliban casualties, it has not released such figures for civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

Pakistan's military says about 64,000 people have registered at more than 10 formal camps and hospitals set up for the fleeing civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

A suicide car-bombing,earlier, killed five policeman and several civilians near an Iraqi police station in the town of Shirqat, close to Tikrit.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

Samadi of the Afghan rights group says that Taliban insurgents are inflicting,as he puts it, systematic,deliberate and widespread harm to Afghan civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

NATO commanders insisted the air strike was aimed at insurgents and launched after forces determined there were no civilians in the area.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse has appealed to the rebels to surrender and allow civilians a safe passage.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Since the insurgency flared up in 2004, there have been almost daily bombings and attacks, mostly against civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31