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A convoy of Russian armored vehicles moves along a highway in Crimea, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Russia has concentrated an estimated 100,000 troops with tanks and other heavy weapons near Ukraine in what the West fears could be a prelude to an invasion. The Biden administration is unlikely to answer a further Russian invasion of Ukraine by sending U.S. combat troops. But it could pursue a range of less dramatic yet still risky options, including giving military support to a post-invasion Ukrainian resistance. (AP Photo)

U.S. sanctions four Ukrainians accused of helping Russia destabilize country

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A convoy of Russian armored vehicles moves along a highway in Crimea, Tuesday, Jan. 18, 2022. Russia has concentrated an estimated 100,000 troops with tanks and other heavy weapons near Ukraine in what the West fears could be a prelude to an invasion. (AP Photo)

Biden administration scrambles as Kremlin escalates again on Ukraine

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province. A member of the expert team investigating the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan says the Chinese side granted full access to all sites and personnel they requested to visit and meet with. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) **FILE**

Defense bill bans funding for EcoHealth Alliance

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 22, 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, Afghan passengers board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (MSgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Force via AP) **FILE**

State Department says fewer than a dozen U.S. citizens stuck in Afghanistan

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coast Guard vessel is seen patrolling in the South China Sea, taken sometime April 13-14, 2021. Chinese coast guard ships blocked and used water cannons on two Philippine supply boats heading to a disputed shoal occupied by Filipino marines in the South China Sea, provoking an angry protest against China and a warning from the Philippine government that its vessels are covered under a mutual defense treaty with the U.S., Manila’s top diplomat said Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP)

U.S. threatens military response to China in South China Sea dispute

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a news conference with Foreign Affairs Secretary Raychelle Omamo at a news conference at the Serena Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021. Blinken is on a five day trip to Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool)

Religious liberty panel ‘appalled’ as State Department drops Nigeria from violator list

By Mark A. Kellner - The Washington Times

Migrants from the Middle East and elsewhere gather at the checkpoint "Kuznitsa" at the Belarus-Poland border near Grodno, Belarus, on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021. European Union foreign ministers are expected Monday to decide to expand sanctions against Belarus to include airlines, travel agents and individuals alleged to be helping to lure migrants to Europe as part of a "hybrid attack" against the bloc by President Alexander Lukashenko. (Leonid Shcheglov/BelTA photo via AP)

A manufactured border crisis puts Belarus back in the spotlight

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Hundreds of people run alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the international airport, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug.16. 2021. Thousands of Afghans have rushed onto the tarmac of Kabul’s international airport, some so desperate to escape the Taliban capture of their country that they held onto an American military jet as it took off and plunged to death. (Verified UGC via AP)

House Republicans request interviews with 34 Biden officials on botched Afghan withdrawal

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

Taliban fighters block roads after an explosion Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021. An explosion went off Tuesday at the entrance of a military hospital in Kabul, killing several people and wounding over a dozen, health officials said. (AP Photo/Ahmad Halabisaz)

Outside looking in: After Afghanistan, U.S. scrambles for bases in central Asia

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., speaks during a Senate Intelligence Committee nomination hearing for Rep. John Ratcliffe, R-Texas, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, May. 5, 2020. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, Pool) ** FILE **

State Department ripped for celebrating International Pronouns Day

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 22, 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, Afghan passengers board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (MSgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Force via AP) **FILE**

State Department internal watchdog announces probes of Biden’s Afghanistan drawdown

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

People gather outside a government passport office recently re-opened after Taliban announced they would be issuing a backlog of applications approved by the previous administration in Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

U.S. delegation to hold first in-person meeting with Taliban in Qatar

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Taiwan Presidential Office, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, center, speaks with military personnel near aircraft parked on a highway in Jiadong, Taiwan, Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021. Four military aircraft landed on the highway and took off again on Wednesday as part of Taiwan's five-day Han Guang military exercise designed to prepare the island's forces for an attack by China, which claims Taiwan as part of its own territory. (Taiwan Presidential Office via AP) ** FILE **

China sharply escalates warplane provocations near Taiwan

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives opening remarks as he meets with local labor leaders the IBEW Local #5 for a roundtable, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2021, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Rebecca Droke, Pool) **FILE**

Blinken and Kerry headed to France in wake of Aussie sub deal friction

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Journalists visit Terra, The Sustainability Pavilion, during a media tour at the Dubai World Expo site in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2021. With the inauguration of Expo 2020 Dubai, the next world's fair, nine months away amid the raging global pandemic that forced its postponement, organizers unveiled the site's signature pavilion to reporters for the first time on Saturday. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) **FILE**

U.S. touts diversity at COVID-delayed World’s Fair in Dubai

By Sean Salai - The Washington Times

In this Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, a security person moves journalists away from the Wuhan Institute of Virology after a World Health Organization team arrived for a field visit in Wuhan in China's Hubei province. A member of the expert team investigating the origins of the coronavirus in Wuhan says the Chinese side granted full access to all sites and personnel they requested to visit and meet with. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File) **FILE**

Congress urged to revive State probe of COVID-19 origin, Chinese bio-weapons push

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 22, 2021, photo provided by the U.S. Air Force, Afghan passengers board a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III during the Afghanistan evacuation at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. (MSgt. Donald R. Allen/U.S. Air Force via AP) **FILE**

Trapped in Afghanistan: Those left behind grapple with unresponsive U.S., dimming hope of escape

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 29, 2021, photo, families evacuated from Kabul, Afghanistan, walk past a U.S Air Force plane that they arrived on at Kosovo's capital Pristina International Airport. The Afghans came from the Ramstein military base in Germany, and they will be housed near the U.S. military Camp Bondsteel, 40 kilometers (25 miles) south of the capital Pristina. (AP Photo/Visar Kryeziu) **FILE**

Army vet behind Afghan evacuation mission says State Department provided little help

By Joseph Clark - The Washington Times

President Joe Biden speaks from the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Sept. 3, 2021, on the August jobs report. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Biden: Lies, double-talk, idiotic nonsense

By Tammy Bruce

In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, Chinese President and party leader Xi Jinping delivers a speech at a ceremony marking the centenary of the ruling Communist Party in Beijing, China, Thursday, July 1, 2021. (Li Xueren/Xinhua via AP) **FILE**

House defense bill targets Chinese influence operations

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times