This latest incident comes at a time when Afghanistan is witnessing its worst violence of the eight-year-long war following the ouster of the Taliban from power in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

They saw Grant as a strong and silent soldier a great leader who had won a long and bitter war.

VOA: special.2010.02.11

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived, and so dedicated,can long endure.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

"Now we are engaged in a great civil war testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.11.12

He warned that the war which would follow southern secession would be long and bloody.

VOA: special.2009.03.26

As long as he remained free, the guerrilla war would continue.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

Here is some of the Gettysburg Address: "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation,or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

VOA: special.2009.02.06

Yet that short war led to long-term changes for America.

VOA: special.2010.07.29

But he did not think the war would last long.

VOA: special.2009.02.26

He is referring to reports that the Army was planning a coup following the end of the 25-year-long civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.11.14

Jesse Owens died of lung cancer in 1980 and Luz Long was killed in action during World War II.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

They have largely resisted long-standing requests to send more troops to the war-torn country, particularly to more volatile areas.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

During the month-long Lebanon War in 2006, Hezbollah fired more than 4,000 rockets across the border at Israel.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Charles Taylor is on trial for his alleged role in Sierra Leone's decade long civil war.

VOA: standard.2010.08.09

Sudan's elections were agreed to as part of a 2005 peace deal ending a two-decade-long civil war, during which an estimated two million people died.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Slim,whose real name is Bill Homans, has come a long way from his job as a heavy equipment operator for the U.S.Army during the Vietnam War.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

But the Roof Ballroom began a long, sad decline during World War Two, when it seemed that all the men in town were off fighting the war.

VOA: standard.2010.02.25

But the prosecution had hoped her evidence would show that Mr.Taylor received so called "blood diamonds" from rebels in Sierra Leone during the country's decade-long civil war.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

The huge Firestone plantation east of the capital,Monrovia, remains the world's largest single natural rubber operation and was one of the first businesses to reopen after Liberia's long civil war.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13

The Tamil Tigers,long classified by the United States as a terrorist group, waged a 26-year war for an ethnic-Tamil state in the northern part of the mostly-Sinhalese country before its defeat and final surrender in May.

VOA: standard.2009.10.22

As Congress waits to hear the outcome of the president's review, there is mounting concern about the ramifications of whatever decisions he makes, both short and long-term impact, for the United States, the South Asian region, and for the war against al-Qaida.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15