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Members listen as Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour, left, speaks during a meeting of the U.N. Security Council, Tuesday, Dec. 30, 2014, at the United Nations headquarters. The United Nations Security Council has rejected a Palestinian resolution demanding an end to Israeli occupation within three years on Tuesday. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

U.N. Security Council votes no on Palestinian statehood

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

George Washington’s views on political parties in America

By Dennis Jamison

Police officers guard the van that crashed into a French Christmas market in Nantes, western France, Monday, Dec. 22, 2014. France’s top security official says the driver stabbed himself several times after the incident. Eleven people including the driver were injured in the accident, which happened at a busy market full of holiday shoppers. (AP Photo/Laetitia Notarianni)

France finds no links among 3 attacks in 3 days

By MILOS KRIVOKAPIC and LORI HINNANT - Associated Press

Liberians election workers watch as a voter washes her hands before casting her votes, during the senate election in Monrovia, Liberia. Saturday, Dec. 20, 2014. Health workers manned polling stations across Liberia on Saturday as voters cast their ballots in a twice-delayed Senate vote that has been criticized for its potential to spread the deadly Ebola disease. (AP Photo/Abbas Dulleh)

Chris Coons sees progress against Ebola in Liberia

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, left, meets with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Villa Taverna, in Rome, Monday, Dec. 15, 2014. Kerry and Netanyahu met as the U.S. and Israel developed their responses to a draft U.N. resolution that would set a two-year timetable for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

John Kerry, Benjamin Netanyahu meet as U.N. efforts heat up

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

Migrants run for food provided by a charity organization in Calais, northern France in November. Most migrants in this port city on the English Channel are moving from country to country in their bid for a second chance, trying to beat a system meant to control illegal immigration but that human rights groups say is making things worse. (Associated Press)

Calais tests French attitudes on immigration

By Karine G. Barzegar - SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

A dancer walks before a performance at the Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. Delegates from more than 190 countries are meeting in Lima, to work on drafts for a global climate deal that is supposed to be adopted next year in Paris. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

Lima climate talks set for record carbon footprint

By Frank Bajak - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Marquis: Lafayette Reconsidered’

By Aram Bakshian Jr. - Special to The Washington Times

Secretary of State John F. Kerry led a meeting of the global coalition to counter the Islamic State militant group at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday. When Iraq pleaded for help in its fight against the Sunni extremists, France agreed to provide more military assistance. (Associated Press)

Iran airstrikes target Islamic State; John Kerry sees participation as ‘net positive’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Mistral French amphibious assault ship docked in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

France denies Russia warship delivery ‘until further notice’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Iran: Nuclear negotiating position strengthened by Russia deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - This is a May 22, 2014, file photo showing Kurt Busch waiting by his car before practice for the NASCAR Sprint Cup series Coca-Cola 600 auto race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord, N.C. Police in Delaware say they are investigating a domestic assault allegation made against NASCAR driver Kurt Busch. The Dover Police Department said in a statement Friday, Nov. 7, 2014, that the allegations were brought to the department on Wednesday. His ex-girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll, said the allegations involved an incident inside his motorhome at a race. (AP Photo/Terry Renna, File)

Kurt Busch: NASCAR waits to act after assault claim

By Dan Gelston - Associated Press

A Mistral French amphibious assault ship docked in St. Petersburg, Russia. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Russia warns France of ‘serious’ consequences for carrier denial: report

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Poilu: The World War I Notebooks of Corporal Louis Barthas’

By James Srodes - Special to The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Reckoning’

By Muriel Dobbin - Special to The Washington Times

Rescuers and medics land by helicopter at a nuclear site in Marcoule, France, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2011, after an explosion at a plant that treats nuclear waste. (AP Photo/Claude Paris) ** FILE **

Mystery drones soar over French nuclear plants

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 22, 2014 photo Roman numerals mark a timber from the 54-foot oak French frigate La Belle at the Bullock Texas State History Museum in Austin, Texas. Archaeologists are beginning to reassemble the remains of the ship recovered more than 300 years after the vessel was lost in a storm off the coast of Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Remains of French ship being reassembled in Texas

By MICHAEL GRACZYK - Associated Press

FILE - In this Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014 file photo, the parents of Sahra Ali Mehenni : Kamel Ali Mehenni, right, and Severine Ali Mehenni, looks at photos of their daughter in their living room in Lezignan Corbieres, southern France. At age 17, Sahra Ali Mehenni went so far as to ask her mother to get her a passport, saying she wanted her paperwork in order before she reached adulthood. When she left for Syria on March 11, departing from the Marseille airport just as the teen boy did, she took her burgundy-bound passport and nobody stopped her before she boarded the flight to Istanbul. (AP Photo/Fred Scheiber, File)

For teen with passport, Syria trip can be seamless

By Lori Hinnant - Associated Press