"There will be operation in this area. But it is now a matter of military judgment (of) what is the appropriate time."

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

military officer has called an "economy of force" operation, in which the United States did what it could, after doing everything that was needed in Iraq.

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

There are conflicting accounts of what happened. The Israeli army says its troops came under sniper fire during a routine operation on Israel's side of the frontier.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

Russian news media are quoting anonymous Interior Ministry sources as saying Moscow could end what it refers to as an "anti-terrorist" operation in Chechnya by the end of March.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

The effort has been to squeeze the Taliban out of certain areas and the challenge now is to hold those areas and maintain dominance of those areas that is surely what the whole operation has been, has been all about,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.27