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In this photo taken early Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, Malian singer Salif Keita, rear center, performs on stage at a music festival at Segou, Mali. Long before Mali captured the global spotlight as an al-Qaida training ground where French soldiers had to intervene, the West African nation was celebrated for producing some of the biggest stars in world music. (AP Photo/Baba Ahmed)

Mali music festival returns after end of war

By BABA AHMED - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Jan. 23, 2014 file photo, an Egyptian policeman is overcome by grief at the funeral of several comrades killed after masked gunmen opened fire at a police checkpoint in el-Wassta district in the province of Beni Suef, south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, Egypt. Egyptian authorities on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2014, accused the ousted president’s Muslim Brotherhood of forming a “military wing” to stage attacks on security forces in the southern province, as months-long street rallies by the group’s supporters wane but low-level violence steadily rises. (AP Photo/Aly Hazzaa, El Shorouk Newspaper, File) EGYPT OUT

Egypt accuses Islamist group of having armed wing

By MAGGIE MICHAEL - Associated Press

Egypt's security forces look through the shuttered windshield of a vehicle damaged after bomb explosions targeted at a checkpoint in Giza, Egypt, Friday, Feb. 7, 2014. Twin homemade bombs targeting a police checkpoint wounded several people on a bridge in Cairo's twin city of Giza Friday morning, the latest apparent attack by militants near the center of the Egyptian capital. (AP Photo/El Shorouk, Aly Hazzaa) EGYPT OUT

Violence risks turning Egypt to jihadi front

By LEE KEATH - Associated Press

In this May 28, 2007 file photo, a young boy seeks shelter behind a soldier with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne division after gunshots rang out at the scene where just a few minutes earlier a suicide car bomber blew himself up in a busy commercial district in central Baghdad. killing at least 21 people and wounding 66. In the beginning, it all looked simple: topple Saddam Hussein, destroy his purported weapons of mass destruction and lay the foundation for a pro-Western government in the heart of the Arab world. Nearly 4,500 American and more than 100,000 Iraqi lives later, the objective now is simply to get out _ and leave behind a country where democracy has at least a chance, where Iran does not dominate and where conditions may not be good but "good enough." (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

U.S. sees global terror network aiding Iraq attacks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Members of Ahrar al-Sham brigade, one of the Syrian rebels groups, exercise in a train camp at unknown place in Syria. The growing muscle of an al Qaeda linked Syrian group is casting a grim shadow over northern Syria, where extremist militants have turned their attention to seizing activists who cover their country. (AP Photo)

Al Qaeda-like groups evolving, share goal of killing Americans

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

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** FILE ** Syria has become a focal point for the State Department in the war on terrorism as al Qaeda-linked groups operating there — specifically the al-Nusrah Front — have expansionist aspirations. (Aleppo Media Center AMC via Associated Press)

Al Qaeda breaks ties with rebel fighters in Syria

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

COLUCCI: A day of reckoning over Iraq

By Lamont Colucci

President Barack Obama gives his State of the Union address on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Inside the Ring: Obama reassesses al Qaeda

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Lawyers seek no Sept. 11 mention at terror trial

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Director of National Intelligence James Clapper listens at left as CIA Director John Brennan, center, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2014, before the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on current and projected national security threats against the US. Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn is at right. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Intelligence leaks top terrorism in threat assessment

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Sept 13, 2012, file photo shows the inside of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, after an attack that killed four Americans, including Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon, File)

HOEKSTRA: Obama’s ‘mission accomplished’ moment

By Pete Hoekstra

Detained Yemeni seeks release after 12 years

By DAVID DISHNEAU - Associated Press

Records: Kan. bomb plot suspect decorated Marine

By ROXANA HEGEMAN - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Feb. 17, 2011 file photo, hundreds of newly trained al-Shabab fighters perform military exercises in the Lafofe area some 18km south of Mogadishu, in Somalia. Abu Mohamed, an al-Shabab commander, told The Associated Press Monday, Jan. 27, 2014 that Sahal Iskudhuq, who was killed in Sunday’s U.S. missile attack, had previously been in charge of kidnappings of foreigners and ransom deals for the group but recently turned to working with its intelligence unit. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File)

Somali militants coming under deadly US pressure

By ABDI GULED - Associated Press

** FILE ** A Special Operation Soldier of the United States Army Special Operations Command demonstrates his skills during a field exercise at Fort Bragg, N.C., April 26, 2012. (Image: USASOC)

Delta Force commando who saved ‘numerous lives’ in Benghazi seige honored

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

**FILE** Vice President Joe Biden and Iraqi Council of Representatives Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi gesture toward their seats at the start of their meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 22, 2014. (Associated Press)

Iraqi leader: Nation on course for Syria-style civil war

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

US developing plans to train Iraqis in Jordan

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and BRADLEY KLAPPER - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

PIPES: The Middle East mightily resists efforts to prod modernization

By Daniel Pipes