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Tony Teano (left) of the Anne Arundel Community College internship office talks with independent U.S. Senate candidate Rob Sobhani at a jobs fair at the college, in Arnold, Md., on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2012. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

SOBHANI: Azerbaijan’s example of how to breed success

By S. Rob Sobhani

Representative Jim Bridenstine (R-OK)

Rep. Bridenstine: Caspian energy equals American security

By Rep. Jim Bridenstine

Representative Gene Green (D-TX)

Rep. Green: America’s alliance with Azerbaijan is an invested partnership

By Rep. Gene Green

House Foreign Affairs Committee member Rep. Dan Burton, Indiana Republican, is upset that U.S. aid may be flowing to countries in the Mideast that are attacking and trashing U.S. embassies. He mounted a futile protest during debate last week. (Associated Press)

BURTON: Promoting A lasting partnership between Azerbaijan and America

By Dan Burton

Sen. Roger Wicker, Mississippi Republican (Associated Press)

Sen. Wicker: Azerbaijan’s partnership with U.S. fosters democracy, security in difficult region

By Sen. Roger Wicker

In this photo provided by the United Nations, the United Nations Security Council observes a moment of silence in memory of the passing of Nelson Mandela, at U.N. Headquarters, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013. Nelson Mandela died Thursday, Dec. 5, 2013 at age 95. (AP Photo/The United Nations, Eskinder Debebe)

Azerbaijan’s successful journey as a non-permanent member of the U.N. security council

McMAHON: It’s unfair to hold Azerbaijan to a higher standard than Russia

By Michael E. McMahon

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev seen during the voting at a polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Oil-rich Azerbaijan is booming and the wealth is trickling down to its poorest people. It all means that its president doesn't even need to clamp down too hard to ensure he extends a decades-long dynastic rule in elections on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

Embassy Row: A work in progress in Azerbaijan

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev seen during the voting at a polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Oil-rich Azerbaijan is booming and the wealth is trickling down to its poorest people. It all means that its president doesn't even need to clamp down too hard to ensure he extends a decades-long dynastic rule in elections on Wednesday. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

SULEYMANOV: Azerbaijan piles up the building blocks of democracy

By Elin Suleymanov

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Azerbaijan deserves to be congratulated

Electoral commission staff count ballot papers after voting closed at a polling station in Baku, Azerbaijan, Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. Azerbaijan&#8217;s president won a third five-year term by a landslide in Wednesday&#8217;s vote, according to an exit poll, extending decades of dynastic rule in the oil-rich Caspian Sea nation allied with the West. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)

State Dept. knocks election in Azerbaijan

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov (left) visits the Hall of Names at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem in April. Israel's president praised Azerbaijan earlier this year for playing a key role in countering Iran's influence in the Middle East as the Muslim country's foreign minister visited the Jewish state for the first time. (Associated Press)

Azerbaijan: An American ally in a sea of threats

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

**FILE** Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (www.president.az)

PETERSEN: Iran looks to the north

By Alexandros Petersen

**FILE** Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev (www.president.az)

BURTON: The peril of stiffing a rare friend in the Caucasus

By Dan Burton

AGHAYEV: An unusual partnership between Muslims and Jews

By Nasimi Aghayev

Morningstar

Embassy Row: Azeris shut university

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks at a news conference with South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-Se, not pictured, at the State Department in Washington, on Tuesday, April 2, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

PETERSEN: How Kerry could be key to Karabakh conflict

By Alexandros Petersen

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

SOBHANI: Azerbaijan’s example of how to breed success

By S. Rob Sobhani

Azerbaijan accused of intimidating writer

By AIDA SULTANOVA and PETER LEONARD - Associated Press