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Pro-Muslim Brotherhood students block a road with burning tires and chant slogan against the police and army, outside the main campus of Cairo University, in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, April 23, 2014. The interior ministry blamed the Muslim Brotherhood, the group from which ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi hails and which the government has declared a terrorist group, for two deadly attacks on policemen on Wednesday. The group denies it is behind the violent campaign, and insists it is pursuing a peaceful protest strategy. (AP Photo/Aly Hazzaa, El Shorouk) EGYPT OUT

Bomb, shooting in Egypt kills 2 police officers

By Sarah El Deeb - Associated Press

Illustration on Muslim oppression of women in Africa by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

MAY: Africa’s real war on women

By Clifford D. May

Yemen says strikes on al-Qaida base kill 55

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

People gather near a destroyed car that was carrying militants in the Sawmaa area of al-Bayda province, Yemen, Saturday, April 19, 2014. A Yemeni military official says an American drone strike has killed nine suspected al-Qaida militants and inadvertently killed and wounded some civilians. (AP Photo/Nasir al-Sanna'a)

Yemen: Airstrike targets al Qaeda training camps

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

People gather near a destroyed car that was carrying militants in the Sawmaa area of al-Bayda province, Yemen, Saturday, April 19, 2014. A Yemeni military official says an American drone strike has killed nine suspected al-Qaida militants and inadvertently killed and wounded some civilians. (AP Photo/Nasir al-Sanna'a)

Yemen: Airstrike targets al-Qaida training camps

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

People gather near a destroyed car that was carrying militants in the Sawmaa area of al-Bayda province, Yemen, Saturday, April 19, 2014. A Yemeni military official says an American drone strike has killed nine suspected al-Qaida militants and inadvertently killed and wounded some civilians. (AP Photo/Nasir al-Sanna'a)

Drone in Yemen kills at least 9 al-Qaida members

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 28, 2003 file photo, radical Muslim cleric Mustafa Kamel Mustafa prays in a street outside his Mosque in north London. Mustafa faces charges he conspired to support al-Qaida by trying in 1999 to set up a terrorist training camp in Bly, Ore., and by helping abduct two American tourists and 14 others in Yemen in 1998. Jury selection for his terrorism trial begins in New York on Monday, April 14, 2014. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File)

American identifies cleric in US terrorism case

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Illustration on Obama interference with Guantanamo tribunals by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

BRUCE: Obama deliberately emboldening America’s enemies

By Tammy Bruce

New Zealand, Australian men killed in Yemen strike

By NICK PERRY - Associated Press

(Image: CNN screenshot)

Al Qaeda mocks U.S. in ‘extraordinary’ Yemen gathering; experts fear CIA caught flat-footed

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Oct. 9, 2013 file courtroom drawing, defense attorney, Jeremy Schneider, left, represents accused terrorist Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, center, in Manhattan federal court, in New York. Jury selection begins Monday, April 14, 2014, in the New York trial of the Egyptian Islamic preacher extradited from Great Britain on charges he conspired to support al-Qaida. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Williams, File)

Jury chosen for US terror trial of Egyptian imam

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the two brothers accused of the Boston Marathon bombings, seemed to have become radicalized while he was living in a suburb of the city, a report says. (Associated Press)

More Boston bomber types lurk, officials warn

By Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Oct. 9, 2013 file courtroom drawing, defense attorney, Jeremy Schneider, left, represents accused terrorist Mustafa Kamel Mustafa, center, in Manhattan federal court, in New York. Jury selection begins Monday, April 14, 2014, in the New York trial of the Egyptian Islamic preacher extradited from Great Britain on charges he conspired to support al-Qaida. (AP Photo/ Elizabeth Williams, File)

Jury to be picked in NY trial of Egyptian preacher

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

FILE - In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Monday, Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. On Friday, April 4, 2014, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer dismissed a lawsuit against Obama administration officials for the 2011 drone-strike killings of three U.S. citizens in Yemen, including U.S.-born al-Qaida leader al-Awlaki. Collyer said the case raises serious constitutional issues and is not easy to answer, but that &quot;on these facts and under this circuit's precedent,&quot; the court will grant the Obama administration's request. (AP Photo/SITE Intelligence Group, File) NO SALES, MANDATORY CREDIT

Suit over deadly drone strikes is tossed by judge

By PETE YOST - Associated Press

Yemen’s al-Qaida claims credit for Aden attack

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President Barack Obama smiles as he stands with Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa, after speaking to the media, Friday, April 4, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Judge dismisses drone lawsuit against Obama administration over killed U.S. citizens

By Pete Yost - Associated Press

Yemeni mourners carry the coffins of soldiers who were killed by suspected al-Qaida militants at a checkpoint in Hadramawt province, during their funeral in Sanaa, Yemen, Sunday, March 30, 2014. Suspected al-Qaida militants attacked a security checkpoint in southeastern Yemen, first sending in a suicide car bomb then storming it, officials said on March 24. They killed 22 troops and left only one survivor, who pretended he was dead. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Militants attack army in southern Yemen, kill 8

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press

Former CIA Deputy Director Michael Morrell, testifies before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, about the terrorist attacks on U.S. facilities in Benghazi. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) ** FILE **

Ex-CIA leader Morell denies role in Benghazi ‘cover-up’ during heated Hill hearing

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder speaks during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, April 1, 2014. Holder says the successful prosecution of Osama bin Laden's son-in-law in New York shows terror trials can be safely held in the United States.(AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Holder: Khalid Sheik Mohammad won’t be tried in NY

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press