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In this undated photo provided by Knights Out, Brenda S. "Sue" Fulton is shown. President Barack Obama has appointed Fulton, a founding board member of OutServe, an association of actively serving gay military personnel, to the U.S. Military Academy Board of Visitors. Fulton is also co-founder and executive director of Knights Out, an organization of gay West Point graduates, and graduated in 1980 with the first West Point class to include women. She's the first openly gay member of the Academy's board. (AP Photo/Knights Out, Joe Galioto)

Three months on, ‘don’t ask’ repeal gets mixed review

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S.: Mistakes led to attack on Pakistani soldiers

By Patrick Quinn and Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

Two bad September days

By Victor Davis Hanson - The Washington Times

Prince Harry says he is returning to Afghanistan

By DAVID STRINGER - Associated Press

A Polish military armored vehicle (right) was destroyed by a roadside bomb in Ghazni, Afghanistan, southwest of Kabul, on Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011. Five Polish soldiers were killed in the blast. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

Bomb kills 5 Polish troops in Afghanistan

By Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

Ex-Soviet states aid U.S. transit

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

** FILE ** This undated photo reportedly shows the Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar. (AP Photo/File)

EDITORIAL: Biden’s Taliban buddies

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

World Briefs

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A man who survived the sinking of a ship carrying asylum seekers to Australia is taken into an ambulance in Trenggalek, Indonesia, on Sunday, Dec. 18, 2011. (AP Photo)

Migrant ship sinks off Indonesia; more than 200 missing

By Ali Kotarumalos - Associated Press

** FILE ** This undated file photo obtained by the Associated Press shows Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private suspected of being the source of some of the unauthorized classified information disclosed on the WikiLeaks website. (AP Photo, File)

Manning’s sexual orientation is raised at military hearing

By David Dishneau and Pauline Jelinek - Associated Press

**FILE** Ethnic Uzbeks walk on Uzbekistan territory on June 18, 2010, after crossing the Uzbek-Kyrgyz border near the southern city of Osh as Uzbek border guards look on. (Associated Press)

Human rights report alleges torture, abuse in Uzbekistan

By Ruby Russell - Special to The Washington Times

**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)

Karzai: Taliban office should be in Afghanistan

By Amir Shah - Associated Press

** FILE ** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center right) walks across the apron with Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III (center left), commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, after arriving in Baghdad on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. Mr. Panetta was participating in ceremonies marking the end of the U.S. military mission in Iraq. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Panetta formally shuts down U.S. war in Iraq

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

World Scene

By wire dispatches and staff reports

Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta presents Purple Hearts to personnel of the 172nd Infantry Brigade Task Force Blackhawks at a forward operating base in Sharana, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Panetta: U.S. at turning point in Afghan war

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta (center) walks to his vehicle after being greeted by Ryan Crocker (right), U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan, and Gen. John Allen upon his arrival in Kabul, Afghanistan on Dec., 13, 2011. (Associated Press)

NATO: Pakistan talking again to U.S.-led coalition

By Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta walks to his vehicle after being greeted by Ryan Crocker (right), U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, and Gen. John Allen (left) upon arriving in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2011. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Panetta in Kabul as U.S. ties with Pakistan erode

By Lolita Baldor - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta speaks to military personnel during his visit to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti on Tuesday. Mr. Panetta arrived in Afghanistan later in the day. He will also visit Iraq, Libya and Turkey. (Associated Press)

Strained ties with Pakistan hinder Panetta

By Lolita Baldor ASSOCIATED PRESS - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Taliban commander Maulvi Faqir Mohammed, who is known to be deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban, is seen in Pakistan's tribal area of Bajur in an undated photo. (AP Photo/Anwarullah Khan, File)

Pakistani Taliban spokesman denies peace talks

By Rasool Dawar - Associated Press

Afghan President Hamid Karzai talks with an girl who was wounded in Tuesday's suicide bomb attack against Shiites as he visits the victims at the Emergency Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, Dec. 7, 2011. (AP Photo/S. Sabawoon, Pool)

Karzai: Toll from attacks on Afghan Shiites now 80

By Amir Shah and Patrick Quinn - Associated Press