President Obama aims to defeat the Taliban by sending more troops and development aid to Afghanistan while reducing troop strength in Iraq.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

They tried to sell the idea that the old general was the only man who could defeat the candidate of the Democratic Party.

VOA: special.2009.03.12

It suggests that six young men are working together to defeat the enemy.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

France helped the American colonial armies defeat the British.

VOA: special.2009.06.29

It also says that a truce will allow the rebels to recover from the devastating defeat they have suffered in the past year.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

This is the largest single group allowed to go home since a military campaign to defeat the Tamil Tiger rebels ended this May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

This week,a probe by the European Union found Sri Lanka in breach of human rights laws during the military campaign to defeat the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

He said the coalition effort to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida in Afghanistan will be costly and require great commitment, but that it will succeed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

Admiral Mullen acknowledges , that it may take years to fully defeat the Afghan insurgency.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

In a report published last week, the United Nations says that 2,800 civilians had died in recent weeks, as the army pushed to defeat the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.03.17

President Obama,in late March, outlined a comprehensive plan to defeat the Taliban and al-Qaida in order to bring security to Afghanistan and to construct a civil infrastructure.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

He said the time had come to re-take the country from al-Shabab and urged parliament members and Somali citizens to assist the government in efforts to defeat the militants.

VOA: standard.2009.12.23

Afghan Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta expressed his government's support for U.S.Army General Stanley McChrystal's recommendation that President Barack Obama send more troops to help defeat the Taliban in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

The government says the number is no more than 10,000 and its troops are taking all precautions to avoid harming the innocent as they make the final push to defeat the rebels.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

"So whatever needs to be done, needs to be done." Experts warn that no matter what steps are taken to ensure safety, terrorists will adapt and craft new ways to defeat the security measures.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

He called the runoff and the period afterward when a new government is formed a "turning point" in the effort to defeat the extremists and deliver good government and economic development to Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.23

"We cannot stop terrorism or defeat the ideologies of violent extremism when hundreds of millions of young people see a future with no jobs,no hope and no way ever to catch up to the developed world,"

VOA: standard.2010.01.06