Dozens of jeeps carrying masked Israeli commandos rolled into the West Bank town of Nablus before dawn and surrounded the homes of three Palestinian gunmen.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Today, Tony Riggs and Larry West tell about the beginning of the United States space program that carried humans into space.

VOA: special.2009.06.10

The state governor freed her, but only after the United States Senate ordered an investigation into conditions in the West Virginia coal fields.

VOA: special.2009.03.16

Our idea was to explore the Rocky Mountains and west coast, perhaps go north into Canada and end up at North Western University in Illinois.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

In the West, Union armies were slowly pushing deeper into Confederate territory.

VOA: special.2009.12.03

The real movement into the American West began after the Civil War.

VOA: special.2010.03.10

Prosecutors say Mr.Taylor - then president of West African Liberia - exchanged the diamonds for weapons, which he smuggled into Sierra Leone.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

Mr.Mesic helped discourage nationalism and encouraged a shift to the West with his country's entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization,earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.12.28

The Wall stood for nearly three decades, dividing the city and Germany into East and West.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

some of that money will also go into humanitarian efforts in the West Bank.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17