Afghanistan,with help from one hundred thousand foreign troops, is battling an insurgency led by the Taliban.

VOA: special.2009.08.22

Britain has more than 9,000 troops in Afghanistan about one third of them involved in anti-insurgency operations in Helmand province.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

The plan also calls for reconciliation efforts that could include holding talks with Taliban factions willing to abandon the insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.03.28

The attack occurred in Kabardino-Balkaria,a republic in Russia's volatile North Caucasus, where authorities have been confronting an Islamist insurgency.

VOA: standard.2010.07.21

Another 25 percent or so are not quite sure, in my view,of the intensity of their commitment to the insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

This is part of the Thai army's new weapon against an Islamic insurgency that has claimed more than 3,000 lives.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

Under the controversial pact, the government agreed to the cleric's main demand of imposing Islamic law in the insurgency-hit districts.

VOA: standard.2009.07.26

And even at its best the benefit would be, in my judgment, outweighed by the probable costs of the counter-insurgency,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Given the way the insurgency has unfolded and evolved and enlarged, the Taliban have no reason to talk.

VOA: standard.2009.03.11

Since the insurgency flared up in 2004, there have been almost daily bombings and attacks, mostly against civilians.

VOA: standard.2009.08.31

The Obama administration considers Pakistan key to its strategy to fight a violent Taliban insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Indian Kashmir has been wracked by a two-decade-long separatist insurgency, although levels of violence have sharply dropped in the lpast five years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

We need a political system that divides the insurgency and brings those that are willing to live within the constitution within it.

VOA: standard.2009.10.21

Several hundred U.S.military personnel are in the Philippines advising the country's forces on counter-insurgency tactics under the bilateral Visiting Forces Agreement or VFA.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

U.S.officials maintain the aid package is meant to strengthen the bilateral relations and help Pakistan fight its growing insurgency led by Taliban militants.

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

A just-released International Crisis Group report says the fraudulent first round and continuing political uncertainty have been a boon for the Taliban insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Holbrooke says the long-held notion that Afghanistan's illicit opium trade is the main source of funding for the insurgency is simply not true.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

"The point of a counter-insurgency policy is for the U.S.forces and the NATO forces to be able to help protect the Afghan population,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.25

The military says the anti-insurgency operation in the area has so far killed nearly 2,000 Taliban militants and left more than 300 soldiers dead.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Some analysts suggest that the NATO troops in Kosovo could be redeployed to Afghanistan where U.S.and NATO forces are battling a strong Taliban insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.06.11

(SHOOTING SOUND) The incident occurred at the height of the insurgency during the US military surge.

VOA: standard.2010.04.06

And nearly three-out-of-five believe the war against the insurgency cannot be won with military power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

In 2007 and 2008, the Hawiye Tradition and Unity Council endorsed al-Shabab and other opposition groups fighting a bloody insurgency against Somalia's Ethiopia-backed secular government.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

"The nexus between the insurgency and the drug trade is most prominent in the south."

VOA: standard.2009.03.27

Critics say the unpopular attacks help fuel the Islamist insurgency they were aimed at destroying.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15

"We could succeed in Afghanistan and if the Pakistani government does not put its own house in order they could fail in their counter-insurgency anyway,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

McChrystal says his forces will need to do things dramatically differently to stop the insurgency.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

Europeans also want to hear more about America's plans to curb the insurgency in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.03.29

Admiral Mullen acknowledges , that it may take years to fully defeat the Afghan insurgency.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22