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** FILE ** This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Islamic State orders female genital mutilation for Mosul girls, U.N. says

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 15, 2014, during a news conference about competing bills from the Democrats and Republicans on employee health coverage and birth control under the Affordable Care Act. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Michael Lawson approved as nominee to U.N. aviation body

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Making David Into Goliath’

By Max Eden - Special to The Washington Times

A pro-Russian armed fighter stands in guard on the platform as a refrigerated train loaded with bodies of the passengers departs the station in Torez, eastern Ukraine, 15 kilometers (9 miles) from the crash site of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, Monday, July 21, 2014. Another 21 bodies have been found in the sprawling fields of east Ukraine where Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 was downed last week, killing all 298 people aboard. International indignation over the incident has grown as investigators still only have limited access to the crash site and it remains unclear when and where the victims' bodies will be transported. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Train with MH17 plane crash bodies leaves rebel town in Ukraine

By Dmitry Lovetsky and David McHugh - Associated Press

Smoke and fire of an explosion after an Israeli missile hits the Shijaiyah neighborhood in Gaza City.

Israel intensifies Gaza ground assault on conflict’s deadliest day yet

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

The debris field at the crash site was grisly and widespread. Pro-Russia separatists declared a three-day cease-fire for recovery efforts and investigation of the passenger plane downing that killed all 298 people aboard on Thursday. (Associated Press)

Shot out of the sky: Malaysian airliner downing stokes tensions between Ukraine, Russia

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Lost Gun Rights Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LYONS: Small-arms treaty, big Second Amendment threat

By James A. Lyons

Relatives and mourners of Shiite pilgrims who were killed on Tuesday by a bomb blast, protest sitting next to their bodies, in Quetta, Pakistan, Wednesday, Jan. 22, 2014. Shiite Muslims in Baluchistan protested Wednesday in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan, demanding action to stop the continued violence against their sect; they brought the coffins of many of the dead into the streets as part of their protest. (AP Photo/Arshad Butt)

HUSAIN: Counting violent Muslim deaths by country in 2014

By Rahat Husain

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, center, walks across the presidential palace grounds with Afghanistan's Foreign Ministry chief of protocol Ambassador Hamid Siddiq, left, and Foreign Minister Zarar Ahmad Osmani on his way to a meeting with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, July 12, 2014. Kerry visited Afghanistan in hopes of diffusing a crisis over the runoff presidential election to find a successor for outgoing President Karzai. (AP Photo/Jim Boug, Pool)

Kerry: Both Afghan presidential candidates agree to 100 percent ballot audit

Associated Press

Iraqis sign up for military service to help battle an al Qaeda-inspired militant army intent on capturing Baghdad International Airport and eventually the capital itself. (Associated Press)

Iraq tells U.N. that ‘terrorist groups’ have seized nuclear materials

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Omar al-Shishani stands next to a group of ISIL fighters as they declare the elimination of the border between Iraq and Syria, June 28, 2014. (AP Photo/militant social media account via AP video)

Chemical weapons now in ISIL’s hands: Iraqi ambassador

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

U.N. Security Council meets on Ukraine, Monday March 3, 2014 at U.N. headquarters. Ukraine's mission to the United Nations claimed Monday that 16,000 Russian troops have been deployed in the strategic Crimea region, while Russia's U.N. ambassador told an emergency Security Council meeting that Ukraine's fugitive president requested them. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

U.N. compensation costs soar by $1 billion

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

This photo taken May 30, 2014, shows protesters with Moratorium Now! along with about 30 people rallying outside the Detroit Water Department on Randolph street against water shut-offs. The group chanted &quot;Water is a human right&quot;. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Jessica J. Trevino)

Detroit violating ‘human right to water,’ U.N. says

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014, file photo, Al Jones, of the West Virginia Department of General Services, tests the water as he flushes the faucet and opens a restroom on the first floor of the State Capitol in Charleston, W.Va. More than a month after chemicals seeped into West Virginia’s biggest water supply, many residents are not convinced of the water's safety. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, File)

Detroit residents can’t pay their water bills, activists lobby U.N. for help

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Illustration on China's slow expansion strategy against Vietnam by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

CAO: China’s salami-slicing strategy

By Joseph Cao