Nearly two weeks ago, Pakistan's military launched an offensive in the South Waziristan tribal region against Pakistani Taliban militants based there.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

This was clear on Wednesday hardline separatists called a general strike to protest the Indian leader's two day visit to the region.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

This includes emergency relief to as many as two-million Pakistani civilians who fled conflict in the Swat Valley region earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

The two struck up a friendship during then-candidate Barack Obama's trip to the region last year.

VOA: standard.2009.04.26

The State Department says the purpose of his trip is to advance the goal of the two-state solution and comprehensive peace in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

Almost a century ago, boll weevils destroyed two-thirds of the cotton crop in this region.

VOA: standard.2010.08.10

The drought, and nearly two decades of political unrest and economic neglect have left the Mudug region one of the poorest and least developed in Somalia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Two people were killed in an attack on a bus in August. The Casamance region is separated geographically from the rest of the country by Gambia.

VOA: standard.2009.10.05

The two governments are fighting renewed Taliban insurgencies in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.05.04

Iranian state media report the two spoke by phone one day after a suicide bomber killed more than 40 people in the southeastern region Sistan-Baluchistan, along the Pakistani border.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

Statistics from Australia's National Tidal Center show sea levels have increased by 8.6 millimeters a year off Perth and by 8.1 off the tropical Kimberley region over the past two decades.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

Wood said British Foreign Secretary David Miliband joined Clinton in the weekend intervention, reflecting the two Western allies' worry that the crisis would negatively affect efforts against extremists in the Pakistani-Afghan border region.

VOA: standard.2009.03.16

Nearly two weeks after Pakistani security forces began attacking Taliban positions in the northwest Malakand region, the army says troops are now focusing on the estimated 4,000 core fighters entrenched in the militant stronghold Swat valley.

VOA: standard.2009.05.07

Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat Erekat told reporters that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to reject the two-state solution it would weaken Palestinian moderates, strengthen the extremists and push the region toward chaos and violence.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

The two sides have fought deadly naval clashes in 1999 and 2002 in the disputed maritime region west of the peninsula, where the North has always rejected a sea border drawn by the United Nations.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

The military is trying to complete a two-month offensive to dislodge Taliban fighters in the Swat Valley region, and will soon begin a similar operation to hunt down top Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud in South Waziristan.

VOA: standard.2009.07.04

In an audio tape released last week, the spiritual leader of radical Somali Islamist group al-Shabab, himself from Somaliland, ridiculed the breakaway region's continued attempt at democracy and independent statehood, saying that despite its nearly two-decade quest the region remains isolated and politically divided.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07

Iqbal Khattak, a Peshawar-based journalist for the Daily Times newspaper, says for the army to be successful in South Waziristan, it will also be crucial for it to exploit tribal tensions that exist between the Mehsuds and Wazirs, the two major clans in the region.

VOA: standard.2009.06.18