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In this June 27, 2006, file photo, reviewed by the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. military guards walk within the Camp Delta military-run prison at the Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley) ** FILE **

Guantanamo plea deal prisoner said to have a cat

By Ben Fox - Associated Press

Security forces inspect the scene of a car bomb attack in Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, on Aug. 16, 2012. Five separate bombings in central and northern Iraq killed and wounded scores of people, police said. (Associated Press)

Wave of attacks in northern, central Iraq kill 22

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

A Syrian boy arrives at a field hospital after an airstrike hit homes on the outskirts of Aleppo on Wednesday. As bloodshed increases in Syria, critics say President Obama has relied too heavily on the United Nations. (Associated Press)

Obama vs. Romney on Syria policy

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

One of three Ugandan military helicopters that crashed on Mount Kenya sits in ruins on Africa’s second-highest peak on Tuesday. The helicopter was among four that had been headed to Somalia to join the fight against an Islamist group. The three helicopters that crashed were Mi-24 gunships. The fourth helicopter that landed safely was an Mi-17. Authorities could not yet say why three of four helicopters making the trip crashed. (Associated Press)

Three choppers crash on Kenyan mountain

By Tom Odula - Associated Press

Warren Weinstein is pictured in England in 2009. (AP Photo/Mike Redwood)

Wife of Md. man abducted in Pakistan urges return

By Eric Tucker - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this July 6, 2012, file photo, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius attend the "Friends of Syria" conference in Paris. The United States is readying new sanctions on Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime and its allies as Clinton heads to Turkey on Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, for weekend talks with top Turkish officials and Syrian opposition activists. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool, File)

U.S. officials: Al Qaeda gaining foothold in Syria

By Bradley Klapper and Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press

Illustration Imperial Obama by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

SMITH: Obama’s ‘kill list’ a silver bullet for GOP

By Michael S. Smith II

Bombing kills 45 at funeral in Yemen

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

** FILE ** This frame-grabbed image from video provided by the SITE Intel Group, an U.S. private terrorist-threat-analysis company, purports to show al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri on a Web posting on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2012. (AP Photo/SITE Intel Group)

Spain arrests 3 al Qaeda suspects

By Ciaran Giles - Associated Press

In this undated photo released by the Spanish Interior Ministry on Thursday Aug. 2, 2012, an al-Qaida suspect only identified by initials C.Y. is seen in this hand out photo. Spanish police arrested three suspected members of al-Qaida who they believe were planning to carry out attacks in Spain and possibly other European countries, Interior Minister Jorge Fernandez Diaz said Thursday. †He said the three men were detained Wednesday. Two of the detainees are from countries of the former Soviet Union and were arrested in the central town of Ciudad Real. The third, a Turkish man was detained in the southern town of La Linea. (AP Photo/Spanish Interior Ministry)

3 suspected in al Qaeda plot arrested

By Ciaran Giles And Alan Clendenning - Associated Press

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton meets with local women during a tour of the Philippe Senghor Health Center in Dakar, Senegal, on Wednesday.

Clinton visits Africa to counter rising roles of militants, China

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Embassy Row: Defeating Al Qaeda

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Officials: 7 Iraqi police killed in attacks

By Mazin Yahya - Associated Press

Mohammed Jassim is treated at a hospital Monday after a car-bomb attack in Baghdad. An onslaught of bombings and shootings killed scores of people across Iraq on the deadliest day so far this year since the U.S. departed. (Associated Press)

U.S. keeps hands-off policy after a bloody day in Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

People inspect the aftermath of a car bomb attack in Baghdad's Shiite enclave of Sadr City, Iraq, Monday, July 23, 2012. An onslaught of bombings and shootings has killed scores of people across Iraq on Monday, in the nation's deadliest day so far this year. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Al Qaeda resurfaces as coordinated Iraq attacks kill 106

By Bushra Juhi and Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Al Qaeda chief vows comeback in Iraq

By Maamoun Youssef - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Tuesday, April 20, 2010, file photo, Iraqi policemen search the site of a joint U.S-Iraqi raid that killed Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri, two top-ranking al Qaeda figures, about six miles (10 kilometers) southwest of Tikrit. The first online statement from the new leader of al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq claims that the militant network is returning to the old strongholds from which it was driven by U.S. forces and their Sunni allies prior to the American withdrawal at the end of last year, and that it is preparing operations to free prisoners and assassinate court officials. (AP Photo, File)

Al Qaeda: We’re returning to old Iraq strongholds

By Maamoun Youssef - Associated Press

World Briefs: Soldier, 2 terrorists killed in attacks

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Investigators examine the hull of the USS Cole at the Yemeni port of Aden, three days after an explosion on Oct. 12, 2000 ripped a hole in the U.S. Navy destroyer, killing 17 sailors and injuring 39 others. (Associated Press)

Cole shipmates, families await justice 12 years on

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Yemeni soldiers stand guard July 11, 2012, at the site of a suicide bomb attack at a police academy in Sanaa, Yemen. The bomber threw himself into a crowd of Yemeni police cadets leaving the academy and detonated his explosives, killing several people, a security official said. (Associated Press)

Suicide attack on Yemen police cadets kills 10

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press