And I made it clear that by August thirty-first, two thousand ten, America's combat mission in Iraq would end.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

More troops will be sent to help with security leading up to Afghanistan's national elections in August.

VOA: special.2009.04.11

A half-million women took part in the Women's Strike for Equality on August twenty-sixth, nineteen seventy.

VOA: special.2009.10.18

Senator Edward Kennedy's death in August was also among the top news stories.

VOA: special.2010.01.02

Officials believe a U.S.missile strike killed Baitullah Mehsud in early August while he was at his father-in-law's compound in South Waziristan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

That attack makes August the deadliest month for U.S.forces in Afghanistan since the Taliban-led government was ousted in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

General Aziz came to power last August in a coup that toppled the country's first freely-elected leader, Sidi Ould Cheikh Abdallahi.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Fifty-thousand U.S.troops will leave the country at the end of August, with the remaining by the end of next year.

VOA: standard.2010.03.08

Added to the mix of challenges facing the new U.S.and NATO commander are the dynamics of Afghanistan's August presidential election.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

He met with Burma's military leader Than Shwe in August when he secured the release from prison of American John Yettaw.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02

In an address in August, president Ernest Bai Koroma reassured the commission of his government's commitment to enhancing freedom of the press.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The deep global economic slowdown began in August 2007 when defaults in the U.S.home mortgage market caused financial markets to curtail lending.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Former U.S.President Bill Clinton, husband of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, visited Pyongyang in August, to secure the freedom of two captive U.S.journalists.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

Mr.Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Japan won the August 30 elections, unseating the Liberal Democratic Party that had led Japan almost continuously since 1955.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

The Fed chief spoke amid word of higher U.S.consumer spending, which rose 1.3 percent in August the biggest jump in nearly eight years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

"And I made it clear that by August 31,2010 America's combat mission in Iraq would end.

VOA: standard.2010.08.02

Megrahi's release in August and the festive welcome he received upon returning to his native Libya drew international outrage and strong protest from U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.09.19

He adds the conflict against Georgia last August revealed flaws in Russia's conventional forces as well.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Following the suggestion of the U.S.team, Owens' granddaughter, Marlene Dortch,and Long's son,Kai, will award the medals for the men's long jump final on August 22.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

President Obama has ordered all U.S.combat forces out of Iraq by August of next year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Mehsud was killed in August last year when a missile fired by a suspected U.S drone targeted his hideout in Pakistan's volatile South Waziristan tribal region.

VOA: standard.2010.01.09

The president's address will come shortly after Congress reconvenes after its long August recess.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

But the bill to open such trade still faces heavy opposition in Congress and probably will not be debated until after the legislative body's August break.

VOA: standard.2010.07.29

The provisional voter list was originally scheduled for publication in late August, but processing registration data for the country's some 6.5 million identified voters proved time-consuming.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

Abkhazia and South Ossetia declared independence following Georgia's conflict with Russia last August.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The British prime minister acknowledged Afghanistan's first elections in August were deeply flawed.

VOA: standard.2009.10.14