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** FILE ** A Sunday, June 9, 2013, file photo provided by The Guardian newspaper in London shows Edward Snowden, who worked as a contract employee at the U.S. National Security Agency. (AP Photo/The Guardian, File)

ACLU: Unprecedented U.S. spying has chilling effect on reporters and sources, weakens accountability

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Ron Dermer, Israel's new ambassador to U.S., has presented his credentials to President Obama. Mr. Dermer started developing close ties with Republicans when he worked with party strategist Frank Luntz in the 1994 congressional campaigns. (Twitter/@AmbDermer) ** FILE **

Israel’s ambassador praises Obama, slams Human Rights Watch report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

An Iraqi Shiite fighter chants slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State group during Friday prayers in the Shiite holy city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, July 11, 2014. The Sunni militant blitz led by the Islamic State extremist group has effectively cleaved the country along ethnic and sectarian lines &#8212; the swath of militant-held Sunni areas, the Shiite-majority south and center ruled by the Shiite-led government in Baghdad and the Kurdish north. (AP Photo)

Iraq sends 4K volunteers bolster forces taking on ISIL in Ramadi

Associated Press

Militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leading away captured Iraqi soldiers in Tikrit, Iraq in June. (AP Photo via militant website, File)

Iraq’s top cleric calls for deal on PM by Tuesday

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

FILE - Farm workers make their way across a field shrouded in fog as they hoe weeds from a burley tobacco crop near Warsaw, Ky., early in this Thursday, July 10, 2008 file photo. You may have to be at least 18 to buy cigarettes in the U.S., but children as young as 7 are working long hours in fields harvesting nicotine- and pesticide-laced tobacco leaves under sometimes hazardous and sweltering conditions, according to a report released Wednesday May 14, 2014 by Human Rights Watch. (AP Photo/Ed Reinke, File)

Report highlights child labor on US tobacco farms

Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2014, rebels sit in the now-emptied hospital in Malakal, South Sudan. A week ago forces loyal to former vice president Riek Machar retook Malakal in a bloody assault that forced the government army to make what it labeled a tactical withdrawal, while Human Rights Watch said Thursday that both government and rebel forces are responsible for serious abuses that may amount to war crimes for atrocities committed in Malakal and Bentiu, another capital of an oil-producing state, despite a cease-fire signed in January. (AP Photo/Ilya Gridneff)

Scenes of death in South Sudan: ‘No humanity here’

By ILYA GRIDNEFF - Associated Press

Human rights pledge urged for future Olympic hosts

By DAVID CRARY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 8, 2011 file photo, a Predator B unmanned aircraft taxis at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas. A U.S. military drone strike in Yemen in December 2013 may have killed up to a dozen civilians on their way to a wedding and injured others, including the bride, a human rights group says. U.S. officials say only members of al-Qaida were killed, but they have refused make public the details of two U.S. investigations into the incident.(AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Report: US drone may have killed dozen civilians

By KIMBERLY DOZIER - Associated Press

Le Quoc Quan conviction upheld by Vietnam court

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

The flame of the Olympic cauldron is viewed through a glass panel with a sticker of the Olympic rings at a food court in Olympic Park in Sochi, Russia, during the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

IOC presses Sochi officials over jailed activist

Associated Press

A man suspected to be a Muslim Seleka militiaman lays wounded after being stabbed by newly enlisted FACA (Central African Armed Forces) soldiers moments after Central African Republic Interim President Catherine Samba-Panza addressed the troops in Bangui Wednesday Feb. 5, 2014. The man died later after being lynched by hundreds of recruits using knifes, bricks and foot blows to the head. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

HRW: Chadian peacekeepers help CAR rebels flee

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI and KRISTA LARSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Dec 29, 2013 file photo, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah speaks during a meeting at the Saudi Royal palace, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah has ratified a new counter-terrorism law which went into effect Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014. Rights activists said that the law criminalizes speech critical of the government or society. It was published in full in the government's official gazette Um Al-Qura Friday. (AP Photo/Kenzo Tribouillard, Pool, File)

New Saudi counterterrorism law alarms activists

By AYA BATRAWY - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013 file photo, demonstrators stage a theatrical play where gays are grabbed by others wearing masks of Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a protest against Russia's new anti-gay law banning &quot;propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations&quot; in central London. Despite seven months of international protests, Russia's law restricting gay-rights activity remains in place leading up to the winter olympic games. Yet the eclectic campaign has heartened activists in Russia and, without question, caught the attention of its targets - including organizers and sponsors of the Sochi Olympics that open on Feb. 7. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Sochi sponsors pulled into gay-rights fray; activists fly to Russia to join protests

By David Crary - Associated Press

In this Friday, Nov. 2, 2012, file photo, Iranian female demonstrators burn a representation of U.S. flag, and a caricature of President Barack Obama, in an annual state-backed rally in front of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran, commemorating 33rd anniversary of the embassy takeover by militant students. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)

Group run by al Qaeda terrorist invited to brief Dems on drone policy

By Alana Goodman - Washington Free Beacon

A U.S. drone targets Taliban combatants assembled for a funeral. Rules of engagement at the cemetery prevented the U.S. from taking a shot.

Kill team: Obama war chiefs widen drone death zones

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Vietnamese President Truong Tan Sang (left, shown here with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in June) will meet with President Obama while suppressing dissidents, bloggers and religious leaders. (AP Photo/Mark Ralston, Pool)

Vietnamese president’s White House visit alarms human rights advocates

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

D.C. Council member Tommy Wells requested the Crowell & Moring review that said Human Rights Watch overstated D.C. police's mishandling of sexual assault cases. (The Washington Times)

Review: Mishandling of sexual assaults by D.C. police overstated

By Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

An Israeli soldier drives an armored personal carrier during a military exercise in the Israeli controlled Golan Heights, near the border with Syria, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Reporters, human rights activists trash Israel on secret Facebook site

By Alana Goodman - The Washington Free Beacon

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has selected Mona Seif (right) as a finalist for the prestigious Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders. (Twitter)

Human Rights Watch selects proponent of terrorism as finalist for award

By Adam Kredo — The Washington Free Beacon