closing an air field in a populated area and building a new one on an existing U.S.base in the northern part of the island.

VOA: standard.2009.10.20

Residents in Mogadishu say hundreds of Islamist insurgents, led by al-Shabab, fired weapons and mortars at an African Union base in the south of the city.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

As U.S.Marines continued their new offensive across the Pakistani border in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, militants targeted a military base in the east with a truck bomb.

VOA: standard.2009.07.04

The Bush plan, which Russia strongly opposed, would have placed 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a radar base in the Czech Republic to intercept long-range missiles from such states as Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

The United States entered the war in December of nineteen forty-one after Japanese planes attacked the Navy base at Pearl Harbor,Hawaii.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced the launch to a crowd in Semnan province, his birthplace and a base for missile launches.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

The shell dropped and exploded above Fort Sumter, a United States military base on an island in the harbor.

VOA: special.2009.08.13

Douglas was born on an Army base near the southern city of Little Rock, Arkansas in January,eighteen eighty.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

A soldier at the Army base in San Francisco gave him gold colored buttons and gold cloth.

VOA: special.2009.12.14

The base played a part in the nuclear tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union.

VOA: special.2009.06.30

Oahu served as the command base for American operations in the Pacific during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.03.02

Her famous poem is on the base of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.

VOA: special.2009.03.13

Soldiers of the new Confederate States of America shelled the Union base at Fort Sumter, built on an island in Charleston Harbor in South Carolina.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

As the river flowed past Vicksburg, it turned in sharply at the base of the cliff and then continued on to the Gulf of Mexico.

VOA: special.2009.11.19