Senior Pakistani officials also say security forces in Swat have surrounded Taliban leader Maulana Fazlullah and efforts are being made to capture him.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

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

But security and stability have made it possible to begin addressing these problems.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

This television commercial made by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe aims to discourage "family voting" in which women are pressured by husbands or others on how to vote on a certain candidate.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22

U.N.humanitarian chief John Holmes told the Security Council Thursday that during his recent visit to Khartoum, government officials made clear to him both in private and in public that new aid groups and those with new names and logos are welcome in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

U.S.Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy, says President Obama's decision to send 30,000 more U.S.troops to Afghanistan in the next six months and then begin withdrawing them by July 2011 was made only after a lengthy district by district evaluation of the security situation in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

"Over the last few months, there have been a number of training centers open that are exclusively for members of both the Afghan National Army and the Afghan national police force, and I would say that drug usage and illiteracy are two of the big problems within the security forces that NATO has really made a big priority now.

VOA: standard.2010.06.23