Sri Lanka has rejected international calls for relief workers to gain access to the combat zone.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

Back then,a request to send more troops to the combat theater was called an escalation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

U.N.officials say the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam have ignored calls to release tens of thousands of civilians they are using as a "buffer" between them and the military in the combat zone.

VOA: standard.2009.05.11

Speaking on behalf of the host country, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said an effective struggle against such problems requires significant improvement in the combat readiness and coordination of the Afghan military, police and other law enforcement agencies, which the U.S.also considers important.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

The goal is to withdraw all combat troops by next September, but leave thousands of troops to train Iraqi forces.

VOA: special.2009.10.10

It was the deadliest day in the capital since American combat troops withdrew from Iraqi cities on June thirtieth.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

They withdrew under a security agreement that calls for American combat forces to leave Iraq by the end of two thousand eleven.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

President Obama again promised to remove all American combat troops from Iraq by the end of August.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

She was the first woman to be permitted to work in combat areas during World War Two.

VOA: special.2009.05.17

Mister Quinn says efforts to combat the problem must also be increased at the community level.

VOA: special.2010.05.17

A United States Marine Corps combat field recording from the Second Battle of Guam.

VOA: special.2010.07.09

Policy Officer at the ILO's Special Action Program to Combat Forced Labor Beate Andrees says migrant workers see themselves as risk-takers.

VOA: standard.2009.08.21

Pope Benedict has said the Catholic Church teaching of abstinence and fidelity is the only way to combat the AIDS problem.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

But U.S.officials say many of those cartels have infiltrated American law enforcement agencies assigned to combat the drug trade.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Seki's 442nd Regimental Combat Team became the most decorated unit in US military history for its size and length of service.

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb is a Sunni organization which was formerly known as the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat.

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

And he said the number of facilities supplying anti-retroviral drugs used to combat AIDS would be doubled from 500 to 1,000.

VOA: standard.2010.04.26

The Obama administration's efforts to combat the recession include an $800 billion economic stimulus package enacted earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

The United States has committed to send an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan this year for combat and training missions.

VOA: standard.2009.03.24

Representative Andre Carson,an Indiana Democrat, who said United States support for an independent Pakistani judiciary would help combat extremism in the country.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Matthew Hoh was a former Marine Corps captain with combat experience in Iraq before he worked for the State Department in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Dr.Betty Maxfield, the army's chief of personnel data. She says Asian-Americans are more commonly found in non-combat jobs then as front-line fighters.

VOA: standard.2010.07.14

He says in the short term, the most effective way to combat piracy is with military force.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Yemeni officials say the international funding is not nearly enough to combat poverty, which they say is the real security threat in Yemen.

VOA: standard.2010.04.20