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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (right) meet on the sidelines of the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, on Wednesday, June 15, 2011. The man in the middle was not identified. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

PIPES: Trading Europe for the Shanghai Five

By Daniel Pipes

A prisoner looks out his cell window at the main prison in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in April 2011. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

U.N.: Prisoners still tortured in Afghan prisons

By Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

Villagers stand near the bodies of men killed in an explosion in Sayedabad, in Afghanistan's Wardak province, southwest of Kabul on Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013. The explosion killed seven Afghan villagers as they tried to pull bodies of insurgents killed from the rubble of a village mosque after a night raid by NATO and Afghan troops in the country's east, officials said. Four insurgents and an Afghan soldier also were reported to have been killed. (AP Photo/Rahmatullah Nikzad)

Afghanistan: Blast kills 7 civilians after raid

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Pakistani truckers who carry supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan chant slogans during a protest in Karachi, Pakistan, on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. The truckers have gone on strike in northwest Pakistan to protest lower pay, officials said. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistani truckers of NATO goods go on strike

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

** 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

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai, head of the Afghan security transition commission, speaks during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Dec. 31, 2012. The next phase of transferring security from NATO to Afghan control will begin in two months and will aim to cover nearly 90 percent of the country's population, the Kabul government announced. (AP Photo/Ahmad Nazar)

Afghans: Next force transition starts in 2 months

Associated Press

An Afghan police officer stands guard at the border crossing with Pakistan on Saturday east of Kabul. Violence in Afghanistan fell in 2012, but insider killings by uniformed Afghans against their foreign allies rose dramatically. (Associated Press)

Afghan violence falls; insider attacks rise

By Denis D. Gray and Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan policemen stand guard outside of Kabul police headquarters, where a an American adviser was killed, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Dec. 24, 2014. An Afghan policewoman killed an American adviser at the Kabul police headquarters on Monday, a senior Afghan police official said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Afghan bomber attacks near major U.S. base

By Amir Shah - Associated Press

Afghan policemen keep watch from atop city police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012, following the killing of an American adviser by an Afghan policewoman, according to a senior Afghan police official. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Afghanistan: Policewoman who killed American adviser is Iranian

By Rahim Faiez - Associated Press

Afghan police stand guard at Kabul police headquarters, where a U.S. civilian adviser was killed by an Afghan policewoman who shot him once in the chest. (Associated Press)

Policewoman fatally shoots U.S. contractor in Afghanistan

By Denis D. Gray - Associated Press

Afghan police stand guard outside police headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, where an American adviser was killed, authorities said, by an Afghan policewoman on Monday, Dec. 24, 2012. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

Afghan policewoman kills U.S. adviser in Kabul

By Denis D. Gray - Associated Press

U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta meets with troops at Kabul International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday, Dec. 14, 2012, before boarding his plane and heading back to Washington. The Pentagon says it will send Patriot air defense missiles and 400 troops to Turkey as part of a NATO force meant to protect Turkish territory from potential Syrian missile attack. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Pentagon to send missiles, 400 troops to Turkey

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian President Bashar Assad delivers a speech on Sunday, June 3, 2012, at the parliament in Damascus, Syria. (Associated Press/SANA)

Russia says Assad losing control, rebels could win

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy and Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Maullah Daoud, co-owner of a tiny shop in Marjah, in Afghanistan’s Helmand province, says that living under the Taliban, who were routed in a major, bloody U.S.-led invasion in 2001, was better than dealing with the insecurity that exists after 11 years of war. (Associated Press)

Taliban popular where U.S. fought biggest battle

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

LUGAR: U.S. natural gas exports could break Russian dominance

By Sen. Richard G. Lugar

**FILE** Afghan men gather in a tea house in the center of Lashkar Gah, Helmand province in Afghanistan on Oct. 23, 2012. In southern Helmand province, one of Afghanistan’s deadliest battlefields, angry residents say 11 years of war has brought them widespread insecurity. Development that was promised hasn’t materialized and the Taliban’s rule is often said to be preferred. (Associated Press)

Taliban popular where U.S. fought biggest battle

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

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Colleagues witness Serb envoy jump to his death

By Slobodan Lekic and Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

Embassy Row: Mission accomplished

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Policemen stand guard near the scene where Afghan intelligence chief Asadullah Khalid was wounded in an assassination attempt in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

Bombing wounds Afghan intelligence chief

By Amir Shah - Associated Press

A Free Syrian Army fighter aims his weapon during heavy clashes with government forces in Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Syria criticizes NATO move on Patriot missiles

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press