The military sounded confident that victory in its campaign to wipe out the Tamil Tigers is close at hand.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

Kim says North Korea wants to improve its negotiating hand by saying it will not be coming to talks with its head head low.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

On the one hand, there is Iran and its allies in the so-called "resistance" block, including Syria, the Palestinian group Hamas and Lebanon's Hezbollah.

VOA: standard.2010.03.18