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This undated publicity photo released by Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. shows Navy SEALs seen through the greenish glow of night vision goggles, as they prepare to breach a locked door in Osama Bin Laden's compound in Columbia Pictures' hyper-realistic new action thriller from director Kathryn Bigelow, "Zero Dark Thirty." (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jonathan Olley)

Osama bin Laden capture: CIA harsh interrogations crucial, Republicans say

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this file photo taken Dec. 10, 2014, Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani speaks during a news conference at the presidential palace in Kabul, Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Massoud Hossaini, File)

Afghans hope for change after bloody year

By Lynne O'Donnell - Associated Press

Security is beefed up outside the prime minister house during a meeting of all political parties and the military leadership to hash out new counter-terrorism policies, in Islamabad, Pakistan, Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014. Pakistan's prime minister says the country will set up special trial courts under the supervision of military officers to prosecute terrorism cases in the wake of the Taliban school massacre. (AP Photo/B.K. Bangash)

Pakistan to set up military courts for terrorism

By Asif Shahzad and Rebecca Santana - Associated Press

Supporters of Pakistan Awami Tehreek hold up posters to condemn Tuesday's Taliban attack on a military-run school in Peshawar, as they participate in a rally Sunday, Dec. 21, 2014 in Lahore, Pakistan. The school massacre on Tuesday horrified Pakistanis across the country. The militants, wearing suicide vests, climbed over the fence into a military-run school, burst into an auditorium filled with students and opened fire. The bloodshed went on for several hours until security forces finally were able to kill the attackers. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Pakistan to execute 500 militants in light of Peshawar massacre

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Central Intelligence Director Director John Brennan gestures during a news conference at CIA Headquarters in Langley, Va., Thursday, Dec. 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

CIA urged to build rapport with terrorists to extract intelligence

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pakistan: 77 militants killed after school massacre

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

This photo released in a statement by the Pakistani Taliban on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014 shows the Taliban fighters who stormed a military-run school in Peshawar, Pakistan on Tuesday, killing more than 140 people, most of them children. In an email on Wednesday, the Pakistani Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khurasani claimed the attack was justified because the Pakistani army has allegedly long been killing innocent children and families of their fighters. (AP Photo/Pakistani Taliban handout)

EDITORIAL: Pakistan Taliban terrorists killed human decency hope everywhere

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Young targets: Hospital security guards carried out the dead and wounded after the Taliban launched one of the most deadly terrorist attacks ever in Pakistan. Gunmen stormed an army-run school that teaches children in grades one through 10. (Associated Press)

Pakistan school massacre counters assertions Taliban crippled by U.S. drone strikes

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Obama condemns terrorist killings at Pakistan school

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Pakistan terror: 141 dead in Taliban attack at Peshawar school

By Riaz Khan - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin opens a meeting of the Russian Geographical Society in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014.(AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Presidential Press Service)

Putin hopes to expand ties with India

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 4, 2009 file photo, Pakistani Taliban commander Latif Mehsud sits with fellows in Sararogha in south Waziristan in Pakistan. The U.S. military in Afghanistan has handed over three Pakistani detainees to Islamabad, including one who Pakistani intelligence officers said is a senior Taliban commander long wanted by the Pakistani government. The transfer of Mehsud, a close confidante of the former head of the Pakistani Taliban, underlines the improving relations between the U.S., Pakistan and Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Ishtiaq Mahsud, File)

U.S. hands over senior Taliban commander to Pakistan

By REBECCA SANTANA and ISHTIAQ MAHSUD - Associated Press

FILE - This undated handout file photo provided by the FBI shows Adnan Shukrijumah. The Pakistan military issued a statement Saturday Dec. 6, 2014 saying Adman Shukrijumah was killed in a raid in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal area. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

Al Qaeda’s Adnan Shukrijumah, who once held U.S. green card, killed in Pakistan

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

China's Shenyang-J-31 stealth fighter jet (also called FC-31). (Image: United States Naval Institute)

China’s new stealth fighter jet sought by Pakistan

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Afghan and foreign security forces inspect the site of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. A least four people were killed in a suicide attack in Kabul early Tuesday, the latest in a series of fatal blasts to hit the Afghan capital. In what appears to have been a complex attack, a small truck packed with explosives rammed the gate of a compound housing foreigners on the city's eastern outskirts soon after sunrise, said Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Doubts about Afghanistan’s military on rise

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A wall-chalking supporting Islamic State terror group appears at an entrance of a compound in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014. A spokesman for a small Pakistani militant group claims that a delegation from the Islamic State group has visited Jundallah's leaders in southwestern Pakistan. Jundullah spokesman Fahad Marwat said on Wednesday that the purpose of visit by the Islamic State group was to see how it could work to unite various Pakistani militant groups. (AP Photo/Shakil Adil)

Pakistan touts successful test fire of mid-range nuclear missile

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times