Yet no longer was the Civil War a struggle just to save the Union.

VOA: special.2009.10.15

It says the United States "is waging a global campaign" but adds "this is not a global war against a tactic - terrorism or a religion - Islam."

VOA: special.2010.05.29

The United States went to war against Spain a year later.

VOA: special.2010.08.05

He was a fighter pilot during the war,then served in the post-war Air Force, retiring as a lieutenant colonel.

VOA: standard.2009.12.30

"We are fighting a war a half a century later that we lost for similar reasons a half a century earlier.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

"You really cannot win a war against these incredibly powerful, brutal,enormously wealthy cartels either in the United States or in Mexico.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09

"Turkey was fighting a war against an insurrectionary movement whose leader was sitting in Syria,"

VOA: standard.2009.10.27

Instead,his goal will be to ease tensions between the United States and the world's Muslims tensions intensified by the Iraq war and a lack of progress in the Middle East peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.02

"President Obama, based on an earlier story,had asked that the national security team gather further information on his background, including concerns that he might have been involved the deaths of a significant number of Taliban prisoners of war a few years ago.

VOA: standard.2009.08.17

That is our mission,". "And the president described it in no uncertain terms in his inaugural when he said, 'Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred.' And to win this war against al-Qaida, the administration continues to be unrelenting, using every tool in its toolbox and every arrow in its quiver,"

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

a war that was costing the government three million dollars a day and the lives of the nation's young men.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

Two days earlier, French President Nicolas Sarkozy was in Germany as thousands of people remembered a different war the Cold War.

VOA: special.2009.11.14

But in the late sixties he went to report on the war to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

And even though a great civil war was being fought, citizens of the North prepared to choose a leader.

VOA: special.2009.12.10