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People watch a TV screen in Tokyo showing a live broadcast from Florida of a news conference by U.S. President Donald Trump, right, and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on a missile launch by North Korea, Sunday, Feb. 12, 2017. North Korea reportedly fired a ballistic missile early Sunday in what would be its first such test of the year and an implicit challenge to Trump, who stood with the Japanese leader as Abe called the move &quot;absolutely intolerable.&quot; Details of the launch, including the type of missile, were scant. (Yoshitaka Sugawara/Kyodo News via AP)

The Latest: UN Security Council to meet on North Korea

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US says world should be ‘alarmed’ at new Iran missile launch

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FILE -- In this Sept. 21, 2016 file photo, an Emad long-range ballistic surface-to-surface missile is displayed by the Revolutionary Guard during a military parade, in front of the shrine of late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran. At a joint news conference Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 with his visiting French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, refused to confirm that the country conducted a recent missile test, saying Iran's missile program is not part of a 2015 landmark nuclear deal between his country and world powers. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)

Iran refuses to confirm conducting missile test

By NASSER KARIMI - Associated Press

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, center, attends the Christmas Midnight Mass in Saint Catherine's Church at the Church of the Nativity, where Christians believe the Virgin Mary gave birth to Jesus Christ, in the adjacent Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, West Bank Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016. (Musa Al Shaer/Pool Photo via AP)

Mahmoud Abbas eyes Paris summit as Israel to expand construction

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In this Dec. 21, 2016, file photo, President-elect Donald Trump speaks to members of the media at Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, Fla. Trump is questioning the effectiveness of the United Nations, saying it's just a club for people to &quot;have a good time.&quot; His post on Twitter Monday, Dec. 26, is the president-elect's latest comment since the U.N. Security Council voted Friday to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Donald Trump says U.N. just a club for people to ‘have a good time’

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

This May 17, 2016, file photo shows construction on land owned by Palestinian Mohammad Abu Ta'a, in east Jerusalem. Abu Ta'a discovered some years ago that the Israeli government had expropriated the piece of land in Jerusalem belonging to his family and handed it over to a leading organization that oversees Jewish settlement building in the West Bank. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean) ** FILE **

U.S. rebukes Israel and allows U.N. condemnation of settlements

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took to Twitter on Wednesday night to call on the U.S. to "veto the anti-Israel resolution." (Associated Press)

Trump, Netanyahu press Obama to veto U.N.’s Jewish settlement vote before postponement

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Members of a Syrian family carry their belongings after they crossed into Turkey at the Cilvegozu border gate with Syria, near Hatay, southeastern Turkey, Sunday, Dec, 18, 2016. Several people were able to cross into Turkey after they managed to leave the embattled Syrian city during the ceasefire, and arrived to Turkey by their own means. The Aleppo evacuation was suspended Friday after a report of shooting at a crossing point into the enclave by both sides of the conflict. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

The Latest: Russia, Turkey, Iran to meet in Moscow on Syria

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U.S. President Barack Obama, left, and South Korean President Park Geun-hye shake hands after speaking to the media at the conclusion of a bilateral meeting in Vientiane, Laos, Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) ** FILE **

Obama calls South Korea and Japan after North Korea nuclear test

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Illustration on the Senate's utility in Obama's nuclear initiatives by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

Bob Corker’s blunder helping Obama get Iran deal

By Jed Babbin

Kelly Riddell Daily Briefing July 21, 2015

Exclusive Washington Times Daily Briefing (July 21, 2015)

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, leaves a policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, June 23, 2015. The Senate pushed bipartisan trade legislation to the brink of final approval Tuesday in a combined effort by President Barack Obama and Republican congressional leaders to rescue a measure that appeared all but dead less than two weeks ago. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

GOP leaders say Congress should review Iran nuclear deal before U.N.

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John F. Kerry insisted that the Obama administration was clear that any nuclear deal should be viewed separately from overall U.S. criticisms of Iran's record at home and abroad. "This plan was designed to address the nuclear issue alone, not to reform Iran's regime, or end its support for terrorism, or its contributions to sectarian violence in the Middle East," he said. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Iran nuclear deal will fuel sectarian violence in Middle East, U.S. allies fear

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Sept. 30, 2013. (Associated Press) **FILE**

STEVEN ROSEN: Picking another fight with Israel

By Steven Rosen

U.N. Special Envoy for Refugees and Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, right, and U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres, left, brief the U.N. Security Council on Syria's refugee crisis, Friday, April 24, 2015. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Angelina Jolie rips world powers on Syria’s refugee crisis

By Cara Anna - Associated Press

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.S. coy about North Korea Internet failure as retaliation speculation swirls

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iran: Nuclear negotiating position strengthened by Russia deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, a worker rides a bicycle in front of the reactor building of the Bushehr nuclear power plant, just outside the southern city of Bushehr, Iran. Ahead of the start of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers, an official in the Islamic Republic has called limiting uranium enrichment and diluting its stockpile the country’s “most important commitments.” (AP Photo/Mehr News Agency, Majid Asgaripour, File)

Former U.N. inspector: Despite negotiations, West in the dark about Iran’s nuclear acitivities

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The Iran Nuclear Compliance Meter (Illustration by Paul Combs of the Tribune Media Services)

GRENELL: The midterm elections and Iran

By Richard Grenell

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KIM HOLMES: Uncomfortable truths: Explaining away Iraq’s real WMD

By Kim R. Holmes