Pakistan has managed Iran's interests in the U.S.since Washington severed diplomatic ties after the 1979 Islamic revolution.

VOA: standard.2010.07.13

The quake also started fires, severed roads and cut off power and communications to the area.

VOA: standard.2009.10.01

He spent 10 months in Iraq and then was deployed to Afghanistan, where a roadside bomb severed both his legs on August 30 last year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.01

Her femoral artery's been severed.She's losing too much blood. No, no, my head is burning!

VOA: standard.other

He still carries a reminder of that day: a fat scar that runs from the middle of his neck to the top of his cheek, where the machete of a militiaman almost severed his head.

VOA: standard.2009.09.07