Other experts say glass making first started four to five thousand years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, present day Iraq and Syria.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

The first item always on that was the overnight casualty report from Iraq and Afghanistan, and I would often come and see that had been circled by the president or that he would be reflecting on that.

上面的第一条永远是,这一晚在伊拉克和阿富汗,士兵的伤亡报告，我来的时候会看到那条消息,被布什总统圈了出来,他看着报告会陷入沉思。

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And I made it clear that by August thirty-first, two thousand ten, America's combat mission in Iraq would end.

VOA: special.2010.08.07

Fewer than one hundred thousand American troops are in Iraq for the first time since the invasion seven years ago next week.

VOA: special.2010.03.13

This recent incursion is the first of its kind since 2008, when hundreds of soldiers entered Iraq to attack PKK bases.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

It was the first visit to Iraq ." by a Turkish head of state in 33 years.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

His first stop in Iraq, at Talil Air Base,south of Baghdad, underscores the new focus of U.S.troops in advising and training Iraqi security forces.

VOA: standard.2009.07.28

Also Sunday,Iraq reported the nation's first death from the H1N1 virus.

VOA: standard.2009.08.09

The story really begins in Iraq several years ago, when insurgents first began using home-made roadside bombs against the High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle, or Humvee,the main vehicle the troops were using.

VOA: standard.2009.11.02