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** FILE ** Iraqi security forces enter through the main gate of Camp Ashraf in Khalis, northeast of Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, Feb. 17, 2012. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iranian exiles call for probe of Camp Ashraf attack

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

VISIBLE CHANGE: Beijing's Tiananmen Square is filled with smog from industrial emissions. For the past seven years, China has surpassed the U.S. to become the world's biggest emitter of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. (Associated Press)

Inconvenient truth: China, developing world now biggest source of greenhouse gases

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Climate-change Robin Hoods

By our readers

Georgette Gagnon, human rights director for the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, holds a report concerning Afghanistan's Elimination of Violence Against Women law during a press conference in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2013. The international body complained that Afghan authorities have been slow to enforce the law protecting women against forced marriages, domestic violence and rape. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

U.N.: Afghanistan slow to enforce law protecting women

By Patrick Quinn - Associated Press

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

HARRIS and KHANDEKAR: Blaming the developed world for the forces of nature

By Tom Harris and Madhav Khandekar

A new drone forming part of the UN, United Nation peacekeeping force in Goma, Congo, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. A new fleet of drones will make their maiden voyage this week as observation craft in Congo's troubled east, where one rebel group was recently disarmed, but many more continue to occupy the area's dense jungles. United Nations peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said the five drones will be "an essential tool" in the peacekeeping mission's military plan. (AP Photo/Alain Wandimoyi)

U.N. embraces drones: ‘Tool of choice’ makes first deployment over DR Congo

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

**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

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

LYONS: Paving the way for a nuclear Iran

By James A. Lyons

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

RUDDY: A long-needed resolution to Western Sahara’s limbo

By Frank Ruddy

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

BURTON: Obama’s Iran delusions

By Dan Burton

Riyad Mansour (right), permanent observer of the Palestine Authority to the United States, smiles before Palestine votes for the first time during the 53rd Plenary Meeting of the U.N. General Assembly's 68th session on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013, at the United Nations headquarters. The General Assembly elected Koffi Kumelio A. Afande of Togo as a permanent judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. (AP Photo/United Nations, Amanda Voisard)

History in the making: Palestinians cast first ballots at United Nations

By Cheryl K. Chumley - 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

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

LYONS: Putting NSA spying in perspective

By James A. Lyons

** FILE ** Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal, speaks during a joint press conference with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, in Riyadh, Monday, Nov. 4, 2013 (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

Saudi Arabia, China, Russia, Cuba win seats on U.N. Human Rights Council

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This March 22, 2005, file photo shows Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, left, listening to Morocco King Mohammed VI prior to the opening session of the 17th League of Arab States' summit in Algiers, Algeria. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, file)

Bitter Morocco-Algeria row before king’s U.S. trip

By Paul Schemm - Associated Press

Survivors wait in line for relief goods on a flooded road at typhoon-ravaged Tacloban in central Philippines on Tuesday. (Associated Press)

Debris, destruction in Philippines slow flow of aid

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Roy Cagbian, 28, stands with his daughters, 7-month-old Shandev and 3-year-old Ashley in front of their home destroyed by Typhoon Haiyan in Tacloban, central Philippines, Monday, Nov. 11, 2013. Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest storms on record, slammed into six central Philippine islands on Friday leaving a wide swath of destruction and hundreds of people dead. (AP Photo/Wally Santana)

Typhoon-hit victims in Philippines plead for aid

By Jim Gomez - Associated Press

** FILE ** Men carrying automatic weapons and bags are seen in the storeroom of the Nakumatt shop during the four-day siege at the Westgate Mall in Nairobi, Kenya, which killed more than 60 people in September. A Kenyan military spokesman confirmed the names of four attackers as Abu Baara al-Sudani (left), Omar Nabhan (unseen), Khattab al-Kene (unseen) and Umayr (right). (AP Photo/Kenyan Defense Forces via Citizen TV)

One of Westgate Mall attackers lived in Kenyan refugee camp

By Jason Straziuso and Tom Odula - Associated Press

Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

ROTHBARD: Pressing ahead on climate salvation

By David Rothbard and Craig Rucker