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An Army carry team, carries the transfer case containing the remains of Army Sgt. 1st Class Ricardo D. Young of Rosston, Ark., arriving at Dover Air Force Base, Del. on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. The Department of Defense said Young was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Obama’s Afghanistan experts stumped on U.S. death toll, war costs during hearing

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Iraqi security forces enter through the main gate of Camp Ashraf in Khalis, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iranian exiles call for probe of Camp Ashraf attack

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Civilian Warriors’

By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the deadly September attack on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya, that killed Ambassador J. Chris Stevens and three other Americans. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

FITTON: A closer look at the Benghazi lie

By Tom Fitton

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of the board of trustees in the Moscow State University in Moscow, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. At a meeting with students in the Moscow State University Putin said that Russia should beef up its presence in the Arctic for both economic and military reasons. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Metzel, Presidential Press Service)

Russian diplomats busted bilking $1.5 million from Medicaid

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass, has a beer and watches the Green Bay Packers vs. the Indianapolis Colts football game on television during an unscheduled stop inside The Main Street Pub and Grill in Mount Horeb, Wis., Sunday, Sept. 26, 2004. To the right of Kerry is Dan DiMaggio, a patron. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

Last call: State Dept. bought $180,000 in liquor before shutdown

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

**FILE** In this photo released Nov. 24, 2013, by the Iranian Students News Agency, Iranians wave their national flag as they hold a poster of President Hassan Rouhani, while welcoming Iranian nuclear negotiators upon their arrival from Geneva at the Mehrabad airport in Tehran. The sanctions relief offered to Iran by the U.S. and five world powers is meager in the context of the economy of a nation of nearly 80 million people, but by boosting morale in the business community it has already begun to get the gears of commerce turning again in Iran. (Associated Press/ISNA, Hemmat Khahi)

State mulling whether to invite Iran to upcoming Syria talks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

U.S. citizen Merrill Newman, 85, reads a document that North Korean authorities say was an apology that Mr. Newman wrote and read on Saturday, Nov. 9, 2013, in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

American detained in North Korea in good health, family says

Associated Press

FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2011, file photo, American Airline planes sit at a gate at Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. Four key members of Congress said Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, that all airlines should be able to bid on gates and landing rights that American Airlines and US Airways will give up after their merger. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

State Dept.: U.S. air carriers should comply with China’s defense zone demands

Associated Press

Richard Stengel

Former Time editor Stengel got big bonus while laying off reporters, heading to State Department

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

Warlord Joseph Kony, leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, reportedly "wants to lay down his arms," a spokesman for the Central African Republic government said. (Associated Press)

Central African Republic negotiating for surrender of warlord Kony

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Armoured embassy SUV burning on the night of the Sept. 11, 2012 Benghazi attack at QRF villa. (Photo by Zahid Arman)

New Benghazi photos surface as questions raised whether State withheld evidence

By Christine Dolan - Washington Times Communities

A $165 million children's hospital in Basra is among hundreds of projects in Iraq funded by U.S. taxpayers. The U.S. and its allies are still paying millions of dollars for reconstruction of the war-ravaged country, even though Baghdad is reaping revenue from its oil industry. Two donor nations are pulling out of the trust fund. A State Department official defended U.S. assistance, saying it is aimed at maintaining a strategic partnership with Iraq. However, the official said, there is "room for improvement" (Associated Press)

Awash in oil revenue, Iraq stays on U.S. dole for reconstruction

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

**FILE** Soldiers gather at a former camp for Islamic extremists near Marti, Nigeria, on June 5, 2013. Oil-rich Nigeria is threatened by the terrorist group Boko Haram. (Associated Press)

U.S. designates Nigerian Islamist group Boko Haram as terrorist organization

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

loot: A Kenya Wildlife Service warden guards elephant ivory that has been impounded. The tusks are a sign of an increase in poaching in Africa that is threatening the elephant population on the continent and bringing easy money to terrorists. (Associated press)

Terrorists slaughter African elephants, use ivory to finance operations

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Chinese students wait outside the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, May 2, 2012, for their visa application interviews. (AP Photo/Alexander F. Yuan)

Record number of foreign students enroll in U.S. colleges: study

By Kimberly Hefling - Associated Press

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that journalists "should be concerned" about becoming "soft targets" for terror attacks. (Associated Press)

Graham vows to block all Obama nominations over Benghazi

Associated Press

The undated file photo distributed by the Mexican government shows Rafael Caro Quintero, who was released from prison by a judge after serving 28 years of a sentence for the torture and killing of Drug Enforcement Administration Special Agent Enrique "Kiki" Camarena. The U.S. government is pressing for his recapture. (Associated Press)

State Department offers $5M bounty for Mexican drug lord

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

FILE - An undated file photo of Enrique Kiki Camarena, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, DEA, agent, murdered in Mexico in 1985. In the U.S., outrage grew over the surprise decision to overturn Mexican drug lord Rafael Caro Quinteros conviction for the 1985 slaying. Caro Quintero walked free Friday, Aug. 9, 2013, after a federal court overturned his 40-year sentence in Camarenas kidnapping, torture and murder. (AP Photo, File)

U.S. offers $5M in hunt for drug lord

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2006 file photo, the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army Joseph Kony answers journalists' questions following a meeting with UN humanitarian chief Jan Egeland at Ri-Kwangba in southern Sudan. Adventurer Robert Young Pelton, whose crowd-funding scheme has already drawn criticism from a pair of Africa experts, is the latest to join a line of private individuals and aid groups who are trying to corner Joseph Kony and the members of his Lord's Resistance Army. (AP Photo/Stuart Price, File, Pool)

Canadian will try to find African warlord using crowd-funded former soldiers

Associated Press