The United States has the largest military force in the country among the 42-nation coalition fighting the eight-year-old war against the insurgents.
VOA: standard.2009.09.15
There are only three people left in Britain who fought in World War One, only three, and they're about 110-years-old or something like that.
在英国,一战老兵,只剩下三个了,就三个,他们得有,大概110岁
Old Civil War song. And so on it goes.
以前南北战争的歌,其它的也是一样
Support for the eight-year-old war is declining among Americans.
VOA: standard.2009.10.01
Now, for a long time in American scholarship and in American classrooms one of the deep mythologies about this whole story of the era of the American Civil War in the Old South is that the Old South's plantation economy was dying out.
在很长的一段时间中,美国学术界和美国课堂,对于这个时代内战前的南方历史,存有一个疑点,就是当时南方的种植园经济正在逐渐衰退
As Yemen battles al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, a Southern separatist movement, and tries to wrap up a six-year old war in the north, Western governments warn their citizens to stay out of the country, scaring off tourists and investors.
VOA: standard.2010.04.20
"Prime Minister Putin still has a lot of sway in Russia and I think it is important that even as we move forward with President Medvedev, that Putin understands that the old Cold War approaches to U.S.-Russian relations are outdated,"
VOA: standard.2009.07.06
NATO announced that six more U.S.troops have died in Afghanistan, bringing the death toll for July to at least 66 and surpassing the previous month's record as the deadliest for American forces in the nearly nine-year-old war.
VOA: standard.2010.07.30
The White House is now reviewing strategic recommendations made by the top U.S.military officer in Afghanistan, Details are confidential but they are believed to include the possibility of adding more troops to the already 60 thousand Americans in uniform deployed there in the eight-year old war.
VOA: standard.2009.09.04
The 61-year-old is facing allegedly committed during the civil war in Sierra Leone.
VOA: standard.2009.09.23
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