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Middle East Briefs: Iraqi president suffers a stroke

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

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Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta underscored the alliance Tuesday when he landed in Kuwait, a staunch Persian Gulf ally, for consultations. U.S. allies in the region, notably Saudi Arabia and the UAE, are proxies for the U.S. against Iran.

U.S. arms to Gulf allies hint of strategy

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Internet restrictions across the world

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Herman Nackaerts, deputy director general and head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), waves as he arrives from Iran at Schwechat Airport in Vienna, Austria, on Dec. 14, 2012. (Associated Press)

U.N. nuke agency: Progress on Iran nuclear program

By George Jahn - Associated Press

US leads Western snub of UN telecoms treaty

By BRIAN MURPHY - Associated Press

** FILE ** This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard claims to show the chief of the aerospace division of the Guard, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh (left), listening to an unidentified colonel as he points to a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone that Tehran said its forces had downed earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Sepahnews)

Iran says it can make copy of captured CIA drone

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press

HSBC to pay $1.9B to settle money-laundering case

By Pan Pylas and Pete Yost - Associated Press

Embassy Row: The best and the worst

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. Lindsey Graham, South Carolina Republican (The Washington Times)

Graham: Defense cuts would hurt Middle East operations

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This photo released on Thursday, Dec. 8, 2011, by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard claims to show the chief of the aerospace division of the Guard, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh (left), listening to an unidentified colonel as he points to a U.S. RQ-170 Sentinel drone that Tehran said its forces had downed earlier in the week. (AP Photo/Sepahnews)

Iran says it has decoded data from captured CIA drone

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press

A man walks past the Standard Chartered Bank building in Hong Kong in October 2010. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Standard Chartered Bank forfeits $227 million for violating U.S. sanctions laws

By Jerry Seper - The Washington Times

Bret Stephens, deputy editor of the Wall Street Journal; Reuel Marc Gerecht, senior fellow at Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD); Brian Katulis, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress; and Rob Satloff, executive director of Washington Institute for Near East Policy, sit on a panel titled "Islamists and Elections: Where Do They Lead?" at FDD's annual national security conference on Dec. 6, 2012. (Lloyd Wolf/FDD)

Blog: Conference mulls the hard choice between dictators and dissidents

By David S. Jackson - The Washington Times

An image taken from Iranian state TV's Arabic-language channel, Al-Alam, shows what Tehran purports is an intact U.S. ScanEagle drone aircraft on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Al-Alam TV)

Official: Iran has evidence it captured U.S. drone

By Ali Akbar Dareini - Associated Press

An image taken from Iranian state TV's Arabic-language channel, Al-Alam, shows what Tehran purports is an intact U.S. ScanEagle drone aircraft on Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. (AP Photo/Al-Alam TV)

Iran claims capture of U.S. drone; Navy denies loss

By Ali Akbar Dareini and Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Briefly: Israelis move forward on Jerusalem building plans

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (Associated Press)

Iran says direct talks with U.S. are ‘possible’

Associated Press

Schools, offices closed over air pollution in Iran

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Defense cuts penny-wise, pound foolish

The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘The Natanz Directive’

By Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney - Special to The Washington Times

Hajaj Al-Rai, Amman, Jordan

GORDON: Egypt will set course for Middle East

By J.D. Gordon