The red shirts accuse the government of being backed by the military that staged a coup against Thaksin in 2006.

VOA: standard.2010.04.03

They are backed by a new squad, known as Combat Battalion for Resolute Action or COBRA formed specifically to take on Naxalites.

VOA: standard.2009.06.21

Ayatollah Khamenei, during a Wednesday speech, retracted previous charges that opposition leaders were being backed by foreign powers.

VOA: standard.2009.08.28

Backed by the U.N.account, Israeli troops returned to the border area on Wednesday and continued pruning trees and bushes which could provide cover for terrorists.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

And just last week, the foundation backed by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and his wife,Melinda, pledged another $13 million to upgrade technology at selected community schools.

VOA: standard.2009.12.14

In a deal backed by the United Nations, a moderate leader of the Islamic Courts Union, Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, was elected president of the Mogadishu-based Somali government earlier this year.

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

Abdullah,of Tajik and Pashtun descent, is backed by Tajiks.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Republican Mike Pence said diplomacy must be backed by strong sanctions, while Democrat Shelley Berkeley pointed to Iran's nuclear program and threats against Israel by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in explaining her support.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Ted Dagne,African Affairs Specialist with the Congressional Research Service, predicted that violence is likely to increase in coming months as the Islamist group al-Shabaab, backed by foreign fighters, attempts to oust the transitional government.

VOA: standard.2009.06.26

It is the result of a bloody division of Cyprus in 1974, when Turkey invaded the northern part of the island, in response to a military coup that was backed by the Greek government.

VOA: standard.2010.04.15

A statement broadcast on Russian state television by Chechnya's Kremlin-backed president, Ramzan Kadyrov, has added to the speculation.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

On September 7 he submitted his lineup for the Cabinet but it was quickly rejected by opposition from Iranian and Syrian-backed Hezbollah.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

In many areas,villages were burned by Janjaweed militia, the government-backed, mainly Arab forces that pushed many Black African farmers from their land.

VOA: standard.2010.03.21

After overwhelmingly voting for independence from Indonesia on August 30,1999, the country was ransacked by Indonesian-backed militias.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Palestinian officials said they were members of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, the armed wing of the Fatah movement headed by western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

Separately,EU leaders backed boosting aid to six former Soviet states by about $800 million.

VOA: standard.2009.03.20

Yet,in comments aired by the European Commission-backed network Euronews, Moldova's leading civil rights activist Natalia Morari, suggests that young people want pro-Western candidates, such as Ghimpu,to take power.

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

The incursion was backed up by helicopter gunships and fighter jets.

VOA: standard.2010.06.17

The Hezbollah-led opposition in Lebanon is taking advantage of the decision by a United Nations-backed tribunal to release four senior generals, Wednesday,to score points ahead of the country's upcoming parliamentary elections.

VOA: standard.2009.04.30

The U.N.-backed forum is building on a decision by the body responsible for domains, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, to allow Web site addresses in any language.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Nearby,on massive balloons, one can see the Colonel of a decade later, the man who backed extremists and terrorists, a pariah dubbed by the United States the "Mad Dog of the Middle East".

VOA: standard.2009.08.29

U.S.officials Monday welcomed the Lebanese election outcome as an unambiguous victory for the March 14th movement over the Iranian and Syrian-backed opposition led by Hezbollah, which is listed by the United States as a terrorist organization.

VOA: standard.2009.06.09