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**FILE** Members of the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq organization chant slogans and hold banners during a tour organized by the Iraqi government for foreign diplomats in Baghdad on Sept. 11, 2012. (Associated Press)

Embassy Row: Threat to Iran

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Firefighters look for survivors at the local headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party after a bomb attack in Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/ Emad Matti)

String of attacks across Iraq kills at least 31

By Adam Schreck - Associated Press

Briefly: U.N. team heads to Tehran, hopes to restart nuke probe

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Then-Sen. Chuck Hagel, Nebraska Republican, speaks during an appearance at Bellevue University in Bellevue, Neb., in 2007. (AP Photo/Nati Harnik)

Pentagon  insiders  preferred  another  over Hagel

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Army Pvt. Danny Chen, 19, allegedly was hazed by eight fellow soldiers to the point that he committed suicide in October 2011. (U.S. Army via Associated Press)

Military suicides hit record high of 349 in 2012

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

**FILE** An Iraqi army soldier closes the door of a cell in Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad on Sept. 2, 2006, after the Iraqi government took over control from U.S. forces. (Associated Press)

$5M paid to Iraqis over Abu Ghraib abuse

By Pete Yost - Associated Press

Cremation on the rise in Md. veterans cemeteries

By Caitlin Johnston - Capital News Service

** FILE ** Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta (center right) walks across the apron with Army Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III (center left), commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, after arriving in Baghdad on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. Mr. Panetta was participating in ceremonies marking the end of the U.S. military mission in Iraq. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, Pool)

Army gets geographical command, at last

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Chuck Hagel, a potential nominee for defense secretary, called the 2007 troop surge in Iraq a “blunder” and advocated talks with Iran with no strings attached. (Associated Press)

Hagel’s foreign policy record could doom chances for top Pentagon post

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

**FILE** Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf waves to the crowd after a military band played a song in his honor during welcome-home ceremonies at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., on April 22, 1991. (Associated Press)

Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, a man for his times

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

**FILE** U.S. Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia, answers questions during an interview in Riyadh on Sept. 14, 1990. (Associated Press)

Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, ‘Desert Storm’ commander, dies

By Lolita C. Baldor and Mitch Stacy - Associated Press

Former President George H.W. Bush (Associated Press)

Send your get-well wishes to President George H.W. Bush

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** Protesters chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government as they wave national flags and hold posters of Sunni Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi during a demonstration in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. Thousands protested in Iraq's western Sunni heartland following the arrest of bodyguards assigned to the finance minister, who draws support from the area. The Khulafa al-Rashideen Mosque is seen at right. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

New protests break out in Iraq’s Sunni heartland

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

Iraqi telecom Asiacell hopes to raise $1.3 billion

By ADAM SCHRECK - Associated Press

World Briefs: Upper chamber in Cairo is ordered to convene

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Former U.S. Marine Jon Hammar, who served combat tours in Afghanistan and Iraq, was arrested for illegally possessing an antique firearm even though he declared the gun to Mexican customs agents. He is shown here in a Mexican prison in Matamoros. (Photo courtesy of Olivia Hammar)

Ex-Marine jailed in Mexico on gun charge is back in U.S.

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Protesters chant slogans against Iraq's Shiite-led government as they wave national flags and hold posters of Sunni Finance Minister Rafia al-Issawi during a demonstration in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012. Thousands protested in Iraq's western Sunni heartland following the arrest of bodyguards assigned to the finance minister, who draws support from the area. The Khulafa al-Rashideen Mosque is seen at right. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqi protesters block highway to Jordan, Syria

By Khalid Mohammed - Associated Press

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani talks to reporters in Baghdad in 2007. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi finance minister: Staff members have been kidnapped

By Adam Schreck - Associated Press

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, who was hospitalized late Wednesday with what unofficially is being described as a stroke, will be taken to Germany for more treatment. (Associated Press)

Iraq’s President Talabani to get care in Germany

By Adam Schreck - Associated Press

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani talks to reporters in Baghdad in 2007. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi President Talabani suffers a stroke

By Adam Schreck and Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press