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Lessons: Before the Central African Republic war, "Our kids could play and go to school together without differentiating who's a Muslim or Christian kid," a refugee said. (Associated Press)

Christian-Muslim conflict in Central African Republic has refugees afraid to leave camps

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to the The Washington Times

Daniel Craig in Casino Royale.

Daniel Craig named by U.N. to lead anti-mine efforts

By Victor Morton - The Washington Times

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei took issues with key points on the framework of a nuclear deal including sanction relief and inspector access. (Associated Press)

Ali Khamenei’s doubts place cloud over Iran deal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un waves to spectators and participants of a mass military parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Korean War armistice in Pyongyang, North Korea, in this July 27, 2013, file photo. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

North Korea demands Mexico give back ‘peaceful’ ship that skirted U.N. weapons sanctions

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John F. Kerry talked with Yusuf bin Alawi bin Abdullah, Oman's minister of foreign affairs, during a meeting of Persian Gulf delegates in March. Oman helped kick-start secret nuclear talks between Tehran and Washington in 2013. (Associated Press)

Oman suited for Middle East peacemaker role amid rising tensions

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Police face off with protesters dressed as green sea turtles during a rally last year in front of the Chinese Consulate at the financial district of Makati city to protest poaching in the South China Sea. Beijing's accelerated land reclamation in recent years has only escalated the friction among claimants. In particular, China's expansion in Johnson and Gaven reefs threatens to wreck rich fishing grounds and valuable coral reefs in the archipelago. (Associated Press)

South China Sea territorial clashes threaten environmental catastrophe

By James Borton - Special to The Washington Times

FILE - This Saturday, July 21, 2012 citizen journalist file image shows Syrians walking past destroyed vehicles after fighting between rebels and Syrian troops in the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian refugees in south Damascus, Syria. On Saturday, April 4, 2015, Syrian activists said that Islamic militants have taken over the majority of neighborhoods in the Palestinian refugee camp on the edge of Damascus as fighting continues for the fourth day. (AP Photo, File)

Islamic militants march deep into Damascus; civilians flee Yarmouk camp

Associated Press

FILE In this March 31, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. President Barack Obama on Wednesday authorized a new U.S. government approach to deterring cyberattacks: financial sanctions against malicious overseas hackers and companies that knowingly benefit from the fruits of cyber espionage. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

EDITORIAL: Obama steps up global warming agenda

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

In this March 19, 2015, file photo, President Barack Obama, flanked by senior adviser Brian Deese, left, and Christina Goldfuss, managing director of the Council on Environmental Quality, speaks at Energy Department in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama to cut U.S. greenhouse gases by 26% over 10 years in proposal to UN

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Chadian soldiers stand at a checkpoint in front of a Boko Haram flag in the Nigerian city of Damasak, Nigeria, Wednesday March 18, 2015. Damasak was flushed of Boko Haram militants last week, and is now controlled by a joint Chadian and Nigerien force. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay) ** FILE **

Boko Haram using civilians as human shields, official says

By Michelle Faul and Edwin Kindzeka Moki - Associated Press

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is among the women mentioned as potential candidates for U.N. secretary-general. (AP Photo)

Woman U.N. secretary-general urged as campaign for Ban Ki-moon’s successor heats up

By Hannah Crites - The Washington Times

Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Margaret Chan, left, and Assistant Director-General of Health Security Keiji Fukuda, right, confer during a news conference after an emergency meeting at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, in this Friday, Aug. 8, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)

Emails: U.N. health agency resisted declaring Ebola emergency

By Maria Cheng and Raphael Satter - Associated Press

In this June 16, 2014, file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group, slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. (AP Photo, File)

ICC should prosecute Islamic State for genocide, war crimes: U.N. report

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Libyan followers of Ansar al-Shariah Brigades and other Islamic militias hold a demonstration on Sept. 21, 2012, against a film and a cartoon denigrating the Prophet Muhammad in Benghazi. (Associated Press) **FILE**

AREF ALI NAYED: Libya and the tyranny of the minority

By Aref Ali Nayed

Serbia's war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic gestures during an interview with The Associated Press in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Prosecutors on Wednesday made Serbia's first arrests of people suspected of carrying out killings in the Srebrenica massacre. It is a milestone in healing the wounds of Europe's worst civilian slaughter since World War II. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

Srebrenica massacre suspects arrested

By Jovana Gec and Aida Cerkez and Dusan Stojanovic - Associated Press

CLIFFORD MAY: Obama’s Iran deal no good if not ‘legally binding’

By Clifford D. May

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler speaks during new conference in Washington in this Oct. 8, 2014, file photo. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

TAMMY BRUCE: ‘Net neutrality’ kills First Amendment

By Tammy Bruce

U.S. United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power addresses the 2015 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, Monday, March 2, 2015. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

U.S. ambassador: U.N. peacekeeping needs Europe more than ever

Associated Press

A United Nations flag (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

EDITORIAL: Unarmed peacekeeping on the Heights

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES