Mr.Strauss-Kahn is charged with a sexual attack on a cleaning woman at a New York hotel last Saturday.

VOA: special.2011.05.20

Brown lost a son in a pro-slavery attack on his home at Osawatomie,Kansas.

VOA: special.2009.06.18

She was shot through the brain. Police believe she was the main target of the attack -- the first shooting of a member of Congress in more than thirty years.

VOA: special.2011.01.15

Late Thursday, fighters loyal to Commander Karey carried out a revenge attack on an al-Shabab stronghold in the capital.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

The attack occurred in Kabardino-Balkaria,a republic in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, where authorities have been confronting an Islamist insurgency.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

The gunman killed a 26-year-old man and a teenage girl in the worst ever attack on gays in Israel.

VOA: standard.2009.08.04

The ruling pro-Western March 14th coalition came under a high-pitched attack from Hezbollah leaders, as well as the Hezbollah-run Al Manar TV.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

U.S.Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has said there will be consequences for Pakistan if Pakistani-based terrorists launch a successful attack on U.S.soil.

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"And that short,few-hour exposure is able to trigger a heart attack where they might not have had it for days or months,or never."

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

saying the president knows that al-Qaida terrorists remain committed to carrying out a deadly attack on U.S.soil.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

It is said the planned attack was guided by senior militants in Pakistan who hoped to mount a so-called 'spectacular' strike against the West.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

But now, counterterrorism research fellow, "This is clearly a sign that the group has become closer to al-Qaida and is looking to attack abroad."

VOA: standard.2010.05.06

Since then,a number of high-profile militant attacks have shocked the nation, including an attack with two suicide bombers on an Islamic university in the capital.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Several of their associates also were injured. The ambush followed a separate attack that killed two members of another anti-Taliban citizen's group in the Swat Valley.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

The stated goal of the Afghan conflict is to deny the Taliban and its al-Qaida allies a home base from which to attack targets in the West.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

On Saturday,President Obama said an al-Qaida affiliate in Yemen apparently trained and equipped the Nigerian man accused in the failed Christmas Day attack on a Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight.

VOA: standard.2010.01.03

For instance,he says, a UN compound recently was hit by rocket fire, a World Food Program convoy came under attack and non-governmental organizations are frequent victims of armed robbery by criminals.

VOA: standard.2009.08.07

And they hunted down and killed a man known as Dulmantin, who had long been on Indonesia's most-wanted list, suspected of being involved in a 2002 attack on the island of Bali.

VOA: standard.2010.03.24

Analysts say the latest attack is likely to push Pakistan to launch a long-awaited military offensive against terrorist bases in the Waziristan tribal region, which is also being used to launch attacks on international forces across the border in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.11

Heavy mortar exchanges have since erupted in the Bakara market area of Mogadishu, A spokesman for the al Shabab terrorist group claimed the suicide attack was in retaliation for the killing of a wanted senior al-Qaida operative in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.09.17

Ibrahim,a civil society activist for the Somali Institute for Research and Development, says that if al-Shabab carried out the attack for which he says there is little doubt the group's denial could be due to the shocking nature of Thursday's death toll.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

"The mission found that the attack on the only remaining flour-producing factory, the destruction of a large part of the Gaza egg production, the bulldozing of huge tracts of agricultural land, and the bombing of some could not on any basis be justified on military grounds.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

In Bou Saifi, a village south of Baghdad, gunmen killed at least 24 people Friday in what authorities say was an attack by al-Qaida members against families of men linked to Awakening Councils, a pro-U.S.Sunni force that helped Iraq fight extremists and regain a measure of relative calm in recent years.

VOA: standard.2010.04.04

Speaking for the Transitional Federal Government, Idd BedelMohamed, Deputy Permanent Minister of Somalia at the United Nations, read a statement accusing al-Shabaab and some hardliners of rejecting reconciliation,and acknowledged that the transitional government faces intensified attacks: "Insurgent groups continue to attack Somali government and AMISOM forces with a new influx of foreign fighters allied and in support of al-Shabaab and its radical agenda.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

Authorities say they quickly killed two of the gunmen, but two others continued to fire machine guns in the extended battle in Pul-i-Alam, Witnesses say U.S.military helicopters were part of the response force, and one aircraft fired a rocket into a multi-story building which the insurgents had seized, used to launch their attack and had rigged with explosives.

VOA: standard.2009.08.10