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Lebanon puts army in control of Tripoli

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

**FILE** In this photo released Nov. 24, 2013, by the Iranian Students News Agency, Iranians wave their national flag as they hold a poster of President Hassan Rouhani, while welcoming Iranian nuclear negotiators upon their arrival from Geneva at the Mehrabad airport in Tehran. The sanctions relief offered to Iran by the U.S. and five world powers is meager in the context of the economy of a nation of nearly 80 million people, but by boosting morale in the business community it has already begun to get the gears of commerce turning again in Iran. (Associated Press/ISNA, Hemmat Khahi)

State mulling whether to invite Iran to upcoming Syria talks

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Friday, Nov. 22, 2013, a Shiite fighter from a group called the Hussein Brigade fires his weapon during clashes with members of Sunni-dominated Free Syrian Army rebels in the town of Hatita, in the countryside of Damascus, Syria. (AP Photo/Jaber al-Helo)

Syrian rebels enter Christian village near capital

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** FILE ** A Syrian rebel fighter returns from fighting Syrian army forces in Aleppo. (Associated Press)

American jihad: U.S. officials worried over number of citizens headed to Syria

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** FILE ** Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures as he meets the media during a bilateral meeting between Italy and Russia, in Trieste, Italy, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2013. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

Putin outflanks his foes at home, Obama abroad

By By Marc Bennetts - Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** The guided-missile destroyer USS Gonzalez (DDG 66) fires a 5-inch round during a live-fire exercise in the Indian Ocean. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Jon Bullough/Released)

U.S. offers to destroy Syrian chemical weapons at sea

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** FILE ** President Obama (right) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday, Sept. 30, 2013. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Pact on Iran could give Obama a rare boost in job performance rating

By Dave Boyer and Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Syrian rebels take up position in Idlib, Syria, Feb. 10, 2012. (Associated Press)

Warplanes strike rebel-held areas in Syria, killing at least 44: report

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Sen. Marco Rubio (left), Florida Republican, accompanied by Sen. Mike Lee, Utah Republican, speaks to reporters during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington in this Sept. 27, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) ** FILE **

Marco Rubio warns of ‘disengaged’ foreign policy

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Displaced Syrian children wait outside their tents for the arrival of French President Francois Hollande's companion, Valerie Trierweiler, during her visit to one of the refugee camps at Delhamiyeh village in the Bekaa Valley of eastern Lebanon on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

As fighting flares, Syrians pour into Lebanon

By Diaa Hadid and Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

** FILE ** A Free Syrian Army fighter fires an AK-47 during a battle against the Syrian army loyal to President Bashar Assad, in Aleppo, Syria, Nov. 8, 2013. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC, File)

Assad seizes momentum in Syrian civil war

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** FILE ** In this Sunday, March. 3, 201,3 file photo, Kurdish female members, foreground and background, of the Popular Protection Units stand guard at a check point near the northeastern city of Qamishli, Syria. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

Syrian chemical arms may be destroyed in Albania

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013, photo, Syrian refugee girl sits in front of her family shelter tent, at Zaatari Refugee Camp, in Mafraq, Jordan. Zaatari, a desert camp near Jordan's border with Syria, is the largest camp of its kind in the region. It is home to more than 100,000 people who have fled the bloody Syrian civil war that continues to rage. (AP Photo/Mohammad Hannon)

Syria-based groups say talks may be ‘last chance’

By Diaa Hadid - Associated Press

A Predator drone flies over Kandahar Air Field in Afghanistan. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. intelligence warily watches for threats to U.S. now that 87 nations possess drones

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Libyan rebels were armed with SA-7s to help topple dictator Moammar Gadhafi, but weapons merchants have set up large operations with no interference. (Associated Press)

Missiles flow into Syria, risk falling into hands of al Qaeda

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

PIPES: Cyprus rides a troubled sea of oil and gas opportunity

By Daniel Pipes

A Syrian woman carries buckets to fill with water at a refugee camp at Delhamiyeh village in the Bekaa valley in eastern Lebanon. More than 812,000 Syrians in Lebanon are urban refugees, who live not in camps but in cities and towns. (Associated Press)

Syrian war refugees find crowds, crime, contagion at camps

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Saudi Crown Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz (right), who died on Saturday, June 16, 2012, and his brother Prince Salman bin Abdul-Aziz attend a welcoming ceremony for Gulf Arab leaders as they arrive in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, for a Gulf Cooperation Council summit on Monday, May 14, 2012. Prince Salman has been named crown prince. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

LOZANSKY: Has Obama lost the Saudis, too?

By Edward Lozansky

** FILE ** Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (AP Photo/Lior Mizrahi, Pool)

Israeli warplanes strike shipment of Russian missiles at Syrian port: officials

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