Two years after he started using watercolor, he stopped illustrating for magazines like Harper's.

VOA: special.2010.07.25

In-between the meetings in Baghdad and Irbil, Secretary Gates stopped at a U.S.airbase near the disputed city of Kirkuk, where he told several hundred American troops he sees signs of progress toward resolving Iraq's Arab-Kurd dispute.

VOA: standard.2009.12.12