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Army faces questions over sheep beating video

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Anti-Taliban Afghan tribal leader killed in mosque

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton

PRUDEN: Another grovel, not a rebuke

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Rick Perry campaigns for the Republican presidential nomination during a stop at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Prayer Breakfast in Myrtle Beach, S.C., on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Perry: Marines in video are ‘kids,’ not criminals

By Anne Flaherty - Associated Press

U.S. Army Pvt. Danny Chen (Associated Press/U.S. Army)

Soldier faces hearing at Afghan base over suicide

By Kay Johnson - Associated Press

U.S. soldier faces hearing over suicide

By Kay Johnson - Associated Press

George McGovern

PRUDEN: A crawl through the fairy dust

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

**FILE** This image made on Jan. 12, 2012, from an undated video posted on the Internet by a YouTube user self-identified as "semperfiLoneVoice" shows men in U.S. Marine combat gear standing in a semicircle over three bodies. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta branded as "utterly despicable" the video purporting to show four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. (Associated Press)

Marines name general to handle video probes

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

A health worker administers the oral polio vaccine to a newborn baby at Colvin Women's Hospital in Allahabad, India, on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Rajesh Kumar Singh)

India marks milestone in fight against polio

By Ravi Nessman - Associated Press

India to mark milestone in fight against polio

By RAVI NESSMAN - Associated Press

Futile death in Afghanistan

The Washington Times

**FILE** Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (Associated Press)

Panetta assures Afghans of full probe of Marines

By Pauline Jelinek and Robert Burns - Associated Press

An Afghan border policeman, left, along with U.S. soldiers are seen near the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. A teenage suicide bomber slipped inside police headquarters in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, detonating his cache of explosives and wounding one officer, the chief of the headquarters said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Taliban: Afghan talks won’t mean end to fighting

By Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

**FILE** Taliban militants, who were arrested by Afghan Border Police, stand over their guns July 4, 2011, while they are presented to the media at the Afghan Border Police headquarters in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. All of them were dressed as women and at least one was strapped with an explosive vest. (Associated Press)

Taliban ‘optimistic’ about peace talks with U.S.

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

**FILE** This image made on Jan. 12, 2012, from an undated video posted on the Internet by a YouTube user self-identified as "semperfiLoneVoice" shows men in U.S. Marine combat gear standing in a semicircle over three bodies. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta branded as "utterly despicable" the video purporting to show four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. (Associated Press)

Officials close to identifying Marines in urination video

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

10 die as Taliban storms Afghan government building

By Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

** FILE ** U.S. citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, convicted by Iran of spying for the CIA, is pictured on a video frame grab image made from the Iranian broadcaster IRIB TV on Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2011. (AP Photo/IRIB)

U.S. condemns Tehran over death sentence for American man

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

In anticipation of a new six-year term as president, Vladimir Putin has made forming a Eurasian Union by 2015 a foreign policy priority. (Associated Press)

Putin seeks power in trade

By Peter Leonard

President Obama speaks during a news briefing at the Pentagon on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2012, to discuss defense strategic guidance. From left are Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, Army chief of staff; Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta; Gen. James F. Amos, Marine Corps commandant; Navy Secretary Ray Mabus; Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, chief of naval operations. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama’s war plan pins hopes on peace

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Gul Rahman Qazi, center, head of an Afghan investigative commission speaks during a media conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. Afghan President Karzai had charged the commission with investigating the detention of some hundreds of suspected militants and the investigative commission has accused the U.S. military of abusing detainees at its largest prison. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Afghan panel alleges U.S. detainee abuse

By Kay Johnson and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press