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Visiting Iranian Foreign Minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, center, leaves the Parliament building where Pakistani lawmakers discuss the crisis in Yemen, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Thursday, April, 2015. Zarif is on a two-days visit to Pakistan to discuss the conflict in Yemen, where a Saudi-led air campaign supported by Pakistan is battling Iranian-supported Shiite rebels. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistani lawmakers vote to stay out of Yemen conflict

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks in a news briefing at the Saadabad palace in Tehran in this Friday, April 3, 2015, file photo. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Hassan Rouhani of Iran warns: Saudi-led airstrikes in Yemen a ‘mistake’

By Nasser Karimi and Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Gina Dominique, lower left, who came from Haiti, takes the oath of U.S. citizenship during a naturalization ceremony in Boston, Thursday, April 2, 2015. Nearly 400 people from dozens of countries ranging from Albania to Zimbabwe took part in the ceremony. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Humayun Mirza’s long journey to American citizenship

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Yemenis stand amid the rubble of houses destroyed by Saudi-led airstrikes in a village near Sanaa, Yemen, Saturday, April 4, 2015. Since their advance began last year, the Shiite rebels, known as Houthis have overrun Yemen's capital, Sanaa, and several provinces, forcing the country’s beleaguered President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi to flee the country. A Saudi-led coalition continued to carry out intensive airstrikes overnight and early Saturday morning targeting Houthi positions. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Pakistan says Saudi-led coalition in Yemen wants troops

By Asif Shahzad - Associated Press

Members of Pakistan's civil society chant slogans against the Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen in Lahore. Pakistan's defense minister confirmed a request for soldiers Monday, raising the possibility of a ground offensive (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Saudis seek troops from Pakistan ahead of possible Yemen invasion

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Supporters of the anti-Indian Pakistani religious group Jamat-ud-Dawa, chant slogans during a march to celebrate Pakistan's National Day, in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, March 23, 2015. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)

Pakistan: Short-range nukes needed to deter India

By Matthew Pennington - Associated Press

A deal to curb Iran's nuclear programs and ease economic sanctions on Tehran would be seen as "extremely positive" by Pakistan and many other countries in the region, Pakistani Ambassador to the U.S. Jalil Abbas Jilani told a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor just an hour before the Israeli leader began speaking on Capitol Hill.

Pakistan envoy: Iran nuke deal would lower tensions, boost projects

By David R. Sands - The Washington Times

A Pakistani health worker gives polio vaccine to a child at a bus terminal in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on Feb. 16, 2015. While vaccine distrust has sparked debates amid a measles outbreak in the United States, Pakistan is in a deadly battle to wipe out polio. Long eradicated in the West, polio remains endemic in Pakistan after the Taliban banned vaccinations, attacks targeted medical staffers and suspicions lingered about the inoculations. (Associated Press)

Pakistan police arrest parents refusing kids’ polio vaccine

Associated Press

In this Feb. 11, 2014, file photo, then-Defense Intelligence Agency Director Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)

‘No cheap way’ to defeat Islamic State; multigenerational approach needed, former top spy warns

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Taliban hit Shiite mosque in Pakistan, killing 20

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Pakistani Ambassador Jalil Abbas Jilani says his country's relationship with the U.S. is on a positive trajectory and is stronger than it has been than at any other point since the Osama bin Laden raid in May 2011. (Associated Press)

Jalil Abbas Jilani, Pakistan ambassador, seeks increased U.S. pressure on India

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Obama's Secretary of Defense nominee Ashton Carter is signaling to lawmakers that instability in such countries as Libya and Yemen may require additional counterterrorism operations similar to the ones being conducted by the U.S. military on the Pakistan and Afghanistan border. (Associated Press)

Ashton Carter will prioritize terrorist safe havens, foreign fighters

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Smoke rises after a reported NATO airstrike in Pakistan's tribal area of Mohmand, along the Afghanistan border, on Saturday, Nov. 26, 2011. (AP Photo/Pakistan Inter Services Public Relations Department)

Pakistan strikes kill 31 militants, drone kills 7

By RIAZ KHAN - Associated Press

In this Dec. 24, 2014 photo, an Afghan National Army soldier prays during an ongoing operation in the Dangam district of Kunar province, Afghanistan. The mountains of Dangam in the remote eastern border region of Afghanistan are dotted with the smoke of mortars and rockets fired by Talban insurgents waging war on government forces as they attempt to establish a permanent presence now that the American soldiers who led the fight here for more than a decade have packed up and left. (AP Photo)

Afghan mountain hamlet a proving ground for army

By RAHIM FAIEZ and LYNNE O'DONNELL - Associated Press

Pakistani police officers escort Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, center, the main sispect in the Mumbai terror attacks in 2008, after his court appearance in Islamabad, Pakistan, Tuesday, Dec 30, 2014. Pakistani police have rearrested Lakhvi, officials said Tuesday, quashing expectations that he might be soon freed. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Mumbai terror suspect rearrested in Pakistan

By Zarar Khan - Associated Press

FILE - This June 21, 2007 file photo show a MQ-1 Predator controlled by the 46th Expeditionary Reconnaissance Squadron stands on the tarmac at Balad Air Base, north of Baghdad, Iraq. A Pentagon official says the U.S. has started flying armed drones over Baghdad to protect U.S. civilians and military forces in the Iraqi capital. The official said the flights started in the last 24 to 48 hours to bolster manned and unmanned reconnaissance flights the military has been sending over violence-wracked Iraq in recent weeks. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the new flights on the record. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File) **FILE**

BRUCE FEIN: Congress AWOL on predator drone killings

By Bruce Fein

A Pakistani woman who was displaced with her family from Pakistan's tribal areas carries firewood home during a sandstorm in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan, Friday, Dec. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

U.S. missile strikes kill 7 militants in NW Pakistan

By Ishtiaq Mahsud - Associated Press