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Al Qaeda frustrated by global popularity of Islamic State: report

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pakistanis gather to identify bodies of their relatives killed in a bomb blast at a local hospital in Lahore, Pakistan, Nov. 2, 2014. A bomb exploded near a Pakistani paramilitary checkpoint Sunday, killing scores of people near the country's eastern border with India in an attack suspected to be the work of a suicide bomber, police said. (AP Photo/K.M. Chaudary)

Suicide attack kills nearly 54 in eastern Pakistan

By ZAHEER BABAR and ASIF SHAHZAD - Associated Press

Illustration on the television show "Homeland" by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

CLIFFORD D. MAY: ‘Homeland’ under attack

By Clifford D. May

Pakistani police officers stand guard at Chakoti post situated at the line of control between Pakistan and Indian Kashmirs, Wednesday, Oct. 15, 2014, in Pakistan. Indian forces fired into the Pakistan-administered portion of the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, wounding several children, Pakistan's military said Wednesday, a sign of increasing tensions between two nuclear-armed rivals. (AP Photo/M.D. Mughal)

CHARLES ORTEL: Pakistan is a radioactive ‘powder keg’

By Charles Ortel

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Nobel winner deserves to go home again

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Nobel Peace Prize winners Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai The Washington Times

MICHAEL TAUBE: Finally, winners worthy of the Nobel Peace Prize

By Michael Taube

Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi co-winners of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira, Bernat Armangue)

BRUCE FEIN: Nobel Peace Prize panel stumbles

By Bruce Fein

In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 11, 2013, Malala Yousafzai speaks about her fight for girls' education on the International Day of the Girl at the World Bank in Washington. Teenage activist Malala Yousafzai has jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for her "heroic struggle" for girls' rights to education, it is announced Friday Oct. 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace Prize

By Marl Lewis and Karl Ritter - Associated Press

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, file photo, Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville, Jr., Director of Operations J3, speaks about the operations in Syria during a news conference at the Pentagon. According to current and former U.S. officials, the Pentagon is grappling with significant intelligence gaps as it bombs Iraq and Syria, and it is operating under less restrictive targeting rules than those President Barack Obama imposed on the CIA drone campaign in Pakistan and Yemen. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Airstrikes launched in Iraq and Syria amid intelligence gaps

By Ken Dilanian - Associated Press

In this Sept. 8, 2014 photo, Irfan Khan, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Pakistan, discusses his lawsuit against the U.S. government in his Plantation, Fla. office. Khan worked hard to realize the American dream after arriving in the U.S. in 1994. He drove a taxi and operated a limousine company before landing a computer-related job in 2011 that promised a good living. Then Khan was accused of conspiring to send money to the Taliban. He spent 319 days in solitary confinement before federal prosecutors abruptly dropped all charges in June 2012. (AP Photo/J Pat Carter)

Man cleared in Taliban terror case suing US

By CURT ANDERSON - Associated Press

President Obama, flanked by Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Adviser Susan Rice, speaks during his meeting with the representatives of Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, United Arab Emirates and Iraq in New York, Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Feds name 11 backers of terrorist organizations

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Kashmiri man sits in the compound of a hospital which resumed its services after the floods hit Srinagar, India, Saturday, Sept. 13, 2014. About 200 people have died in Indian-controlled Kashmir, where floodwaters have receded, enabling people to return to their homes. Medical teams in Srinagar, the main city in Indian-held Kashmir, were stepping up efforts to prevent the spread of waterborne diseases, officials said Saturday. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri)

Militants attack Pakistani post near Afghan border

By Munir Ahmed - Associated Press

Pakistani protesters beat a police officer during a clash in Islamabad, Pakistan, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014. Anti-government protesters stormed Pakistan’s state television building Monday, forcing the channel briefly off the air as they clashed with police and pushed closer to the prime minister’s residence. The violence comes as part of the mass demonstrations led by Muslim cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri and opposition politician Imran Khan that demand Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif resign. (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Pakistan’s premier challenged by raging protests

By ZARAR KHAN and ASIF SHAHZAD - Associated Press