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Moon: N. Korea Wants Peninsula Without Nukes
VOA News Published: April 19, 2018 SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA — North Korea has expressed its desire for “complete denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula and is not seeking conditions such as U.S. troops withdrawing from the South first, South Korean...
Global Watchdog Awaits Access to Alleged Syria Chemical Site
VOA News Published - April 16, 2018 UNITED NATIONS — The global chemical weapons watchdog said Monday its team has not yet been able to visit the site of an alleged chemical attack last week near Syria's capital. The head of the Organization for...
Allies See 'Serious Blow' to Syria's Chemical Arms
VOA News Published: April 14, 2018 PENTAGON — A U.S.-led coalition believes it sent a powerful message to Damascus and its backers, surgically slicing through the country's air defense systems to cripple the backbone of the Syrian government's...
US Mulls 'Coordinated' Response to Syria Gas Attack
VOA News Published: April 10, 2018 The United States on Tuesday consulted with allies in preparation for possible expanded military action in Syria following the latest suspected deadly chemical weapons attack on a Syrian rebel-held village. "We...
Syria says Rebels Leaving Last Opposition Area of Eastern Ghouta
VOA News April 2, 2018 Syrian state media said Monday the largest rebel group in the eastern Ghouta suburb of Damascus began evacuating the last part of the area still under rebel control. The reports said buses carrying members of the Army of...
Islamic State Regrouping in Iraqi, Kurdish Disputed Territories
VOA News WASHINGTON — Taking advantage of the rivalry between the central government and the Kurdistan Regional Government, Islamic State is regrouping and increasing deadly attacks in disputed territories across northern Iraq, Kurdish and Iraqi...
Boko Haram Returns Most Abducted Dapchi Girls
VOA News Published: March 21, 2018 DAKAR — A month after abducting 110 schoolgirls from a northeastern Nigerian boarding school, Boko Haram militants freed almost all of them Wednesday — bringing relief to many families, but raising questions about...
North Korea Nuclear Summits Planning Underway
VOA News Published: March 19, 2018 SEOUL — Diplomatic efforts are intensifying to coordinate the logistics and agendas for expected North Korea summits with South Korea and then with the United States, to work out a deal to end the North’s nuclear...
Thousands in DRC Flee Ethnic Violence, Sexual Abuse
VOA News Published: March 16, 2018 GENEVA — The United Nations refugee agency says inter-ethnic violence and sexual abuse have sent more than 4,000 people from eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of Congo fleeing to Uganda over the past three...
Students Across US Stage Walkout to Protest Gun Violence
VOA News Published: March 14, 2018 Thousands of U.S. students walked out of classes at mid-morning Wednesday to protest the lack of congressional action to combat gun violence in American schools and to remember those killed in a mass shooting last...