The goal in Vietnam was to stop a Communist-backed insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

This week,Bank of America said it received a letter from investors holding almost fifty billion dollars in mortgage-backed securities.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

My father backed the car out of his place in the barn.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Prospects for including Lebanon in the peace process have improved with the victory of a Western-backed coalition in elections, this week.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

The roads to the festival site were choked with cars backed up for over 100 kilometers in all directions.

VOA: standard.2009.08.15

A U.S.-backed Ethiopian invasion in 2006 ousted the Islamic Courts Union from power, pushing al-Shabab deep into southern Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

House members voted 209 to 193 in favor of the Democrat-backed legislation late Friday, siding largely along party lines.

VOA: standard.2010.07.31

The red shirts accuse the government of being backed by the military that staged a coup against Thaksin in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

The Washington-backed talks broke down in July, after interim leaders refused to allow Mr.Zelaya to return to office.

VOA: standard.2009.09.22

After President Zelaya was forced from office in June in an army-backed coup he came to the U.N.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

In many areas,villages were burned by Janjaweed militia, the government-backed, mainly Arab forces that pushed many Black African farmers from their land.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

It is also the subject of a U.N.-backed tribunal which is considering indictments in the 2005 assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The French government said they were in Mogadishu working as security advisors to Somalia's U.N.-backed transitional government.

VOA: standard.2009.08.26

The Mexican government says more than 22,000 people have been killed in Mexico since a U.S.-backed crackdown on cartels began three years ago.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

A state-backed group overseeing the company's restructuring plan has agreed to give JAL $3 billion in capital.

VOA: standard.2010.02.01

Ethiopia's army entered Somalia in 2006 to drive out an al-Shabab backed administration in Mogadishu, but encountered stiff opposition and withdrew earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.20

At the weekly Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Mr.Netanyahu also accused the western-backed Palestinian Authority of incitement.

VOA: standard.2010.01.10

The United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon has backed Israel's version of events following the most serious border clash in four years on Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

Noting that all organizations compete fiercely for funding, Feltman denied the Obama administration has backed away from groups supporting civil society and similar programs in Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Yet,in comments aired by the European Commission-backed network Euronews, Moldova's leading civil rights activist Natalia Morari, suggests that young people want pro-Western candidates, such as Ghimpu,to take power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

In a deal backed by the United Nations, a moderate leader of the Islamic Courts Union, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, was elected president of the Mogadishu-based Somali government earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

The Hezbollah-led opposition in Lebanon is taking advantage of the decision by a United Nations-backed tribunal to release four senior generals, Wednesday,to score points ahead of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The Kenyan-born suspect reportedly was highly involved in al-Shabab's fight against the Western-backed transitional federal government and participated actively in the insurgency against Ethiopian troops after the 2006 invasion and subsequent occupation of Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

It is the result of a bloody division of Cyprus in 1974, when Turkey invaded the northern part of the island, in response to a military coup that was backed by the Greek government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

Ted Dagne,African Affairs Specialist with the Congressional Research Service, predicted that violence is likely to increase in coming months as the Islamist group al-Shabaab, backed by foreign fighters, attempts to oust the transitional government.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26