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Soccer match-fixers spoke in elaborate codes

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Soccer faces epic fight against match-fixing

By SHEILA NORMAN-CULP - Associated Press

NASA: Alarming water loss in Middle East

By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press

Christopher Harper

HARPER: For ‘World News,’ a distressing decline in standards

By Christopher Harper

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

** FILE ** An embassy security guard asks for help at the U.S. Embassy just minutes after a suicide bomber has detonated an explosive device at the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital, Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 1. (Associated Press)

Turkey: U.S. Embassy bomber had terror conviction

By Ezgi Akin, Burhan Ozbilici and Christopher Torchia - Associated Press

In this image made from video, emergency personnel are seen in front of a side entrance to the U.S. Embassy following a blast, Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Feb. 1, 2013. Turkish news reports say an explosion in front of the U.S. Embassy in the Turkish capital Ankara has injured several people. (AP Photo/NTV)

Marxist group suspected behind U.S. Embassy attack in Turkey

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this image taken from video obtained from the Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a Free Syrian Army fighter speaks in front of a government intelligence complex in Deir el-Zour, Syria, on Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

U.S. sending $155 million in ‘nonlethal’ aid to Syria

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

**FILE** Then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton testifies on Capitol Hill on Jan. 23, 2013, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Inside the Ring: CIA in Benghazi

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Turkish painter Burhan Dogancay dead at 83

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

Syrians run to aid the injured in the aftermath of a strike by Syrian government warplanes on the residential neighborhood of Maadamiyeh, south of Damascus, Syria, on Monday, Jan. 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Syria bombs Damascus suburbs to keep rebels out

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

**FILE** Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Associated Press)

Advocates urge White House to press Turkey on human rights

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

Kurds demonstrate on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2013, in front of a pro-Kurdish center in Paris where three Kurdish women were killed in what the French interior minister called an execution. (AP Photo/Remy de la Mauviniere)

France: 3 Kurdish women ‘executed’ in Paris

By Elaine Ganley and Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

Syrian refugee boys look Jan. 7, 2013, outside their tent at a temporary refugee camp in the eastern Lebanese town of Marj near the border with Syria. (Associated Press/File)

Riot breaks out in Syrian refugee camp in Jordan

By Dale Gavlak - Associated Press

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Turkey’s leader vies for role of strongman

By Jacob Resneck - Special to The Washington Times

NBC’s Engel, TV crew escape abduction in Syria

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY - Associated Press

NBC correspondent escapes Syria kidnapping

By ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY - Associated Press

Defense Secretary Leon Panetta performs a swear-in ceremony to reenlist four troops during his visit to Incirlik Air Base, Turkey, on Dec. 14, 2012. Panetta is heading home after spending three days in Afghanistan meeting with troops, commanders and Afghani leaders. (Associated Press)

U.S. sending troops, missiles to Turkey to guard against Syria

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

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

In this Friday, Dec. 7, 2012 photo, a Syrian rebel recites verses of the Quran after clashes with troops loyal to Syrian President Bashar Assad in Aleppo, Syria. As fears grow in the West that Assad will unleash chemical weapons as an act of desperation, NATO moved forward Thursday with its plan to place Patriot missiles and troops along Syria's border with Turkey to protect against potential attacks. (AP Photo/Narciso Contreras)

Syrian rebels create new unified military command

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press