Head of girl's education for the Ziginchor region, Aminata Traor, said girls are at risk in schools and in the community.

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

Burns,at a brief news conference before leaving India, was asked about the increased attacks in the region and the threats against India.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

For more than eight years, U.S.drone aircraft have fired missiles at scores of suspected Taliban and al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan's volatile tribal region.

VOA: standard.2009.03.19

The region around the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral even calls itself The Space Coast.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

The world is waiting,". Gates was speaking in Singapore at the Shangri-La Dialogue, an annual meeting of Asian defense ministers and experts on the region.

VOA: standard.2009.05.30

At a closing press event Clinton said the U.S.commitment to the region.

VOA: standard.2009.12.05

But Lee Smith's new book concludes that diminishing the American presence in the Middle East at this moment could create dangerous new instabilities that could worsen,not improve, the prospects for peace in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18

But they say it sends an appropriate signal that says the U.S.will not give up, and at the same time the troops will not stay in the region a day more than they must.

VOA: standard.2009.12.06

Secretary Clinton said Wednesday that Bosworth had been prepared to travel to North Korea "at a moment's notice" during his first mission to the region last week, but said he regrettably did not get an invitation to do so.

VOA: standard.2009.03.12

Such tests,he adds, may also be aimed at frightening other countries in the region, like the Gulf States, or southern European nations that have U.S.or other Western bases on their soil,and might be involved in the logistics of an eventual attack.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

In an audio tape released last week, the spiritual leader of radical Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, himself from Somaliland, ridiculed the breakaway region's continued attempt at democracy and independent statehood, saying that despite its nearly two-decade quest the region remains isolated and politically divided.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

(OMITTED) It's still low prevalence, but you know we've just put out the synthesis report, which was an epidemiological study of HIV and its evolution in the region, and the report says that probably, at least for the near future, we'll never have an epidemic of HIV in the region.

VOA: standard.2010.07.07

"The in-depth discussions we are having, where we are testing our assumptions, where we are looking at how better to integrate our civilian and military components and our very clear understanding that Pakistan and the region must be addressed as well, is leading to some welcome clarity and the kind of commitment that is needed,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

"This is not a particularly easy case, because it sets out, or calls to question a number of legal issues that have to be examined, that have to really be given legal treatment for them to arrive at a decision that is legal in the eyes of the region and the eyes of the international law,".

VOA: standard.2009.04.18