Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the United States has two objectives in boosting security along the border with Mexico.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Soldiers have launched a massive rescue operation. The army has a heavy presence in the area, which shares a border with China.

VOA: standard.2010.08.06

The PKK,which has bases in northern Iraq, conducts frequent raids inside Turkey, provoking periodic Turkish cross-border reprisals.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

"It is wide open." His group has been criticized as racist,but Spencer says this has nothing to do with race, only with border security.

VOA: standard.2010.06.07

The Obama administration has dispatched some 500 additional federal agents to the U.S.-Mexico border to stop the violence from spilling over into the United States.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The president did not give a timetable for getting immigration reform legislation passed, but he said his administration has made progress in strengthening border security.

VOA: standard.2009.06.19

Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas militants in a cross-border raid more than three years ago and has been held in the Gaza Strip ever since.

VOA: standard.2009.10.03

She has called the lethal mutiny by the border guards a pre-planned conspiracy to try to sabotage her agenda to make Bangladesh a stable secular democracy.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

She notes the Mauritanian border town of Rosso, on the banks of the Senegal River, also has been lashed by heavy rains and devastated by floods.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

Hamas has fired thousands of rockets across the Gaza border at Israeli communities;

VOA: standard.2009.05.29

North Korea has never accepted a United Nations-mandated border there, and the two Koreas have fought two deadly naval battles in the area in the past 10 years.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

Under previous peace negotiations, Egypt has international obligations to regulate the border.

VOA: standard.2010.06.01

The two sides have fought deadly naval clashes in 1999 and 2002 in the disputed maritime region west of the peninsula, where the North has always rejected a sea border drawn by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

That is the maritime region where North Korea has disputed a sea border for decades and where an international team of investigators concluded a North Korean submarine sank a South Korean patrol ship in March,killing 46 sailors.

VOA: standard.2010.05.27

That is something that we can stop," President Calderon has repeatedly urged the United States to crack down on arms shipments south of its border, saying 90 percent of weapons in the hands of drug traffickers originate in the U.S.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

U.S.officials have never confirmed the use of Predator drones, but it is widely reported that the Central Intelligence Agency has used them to kill suspected terrorist leaders operating in Pakistan's largely ungoverned tribal areas along its border with Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.27