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** FILE ** Samantha Power, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.N. Ambassador, listens to Obama speak in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 5, 2013, where he made the announcement. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Senate OKs Obama pick for U.N. ambassador

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Gilberton Police Chief Mark Kessler, center, talks with members of the Constitutional Security Force outside Gilberton Borough Hall before the Gilberton Borough Council meeting in Mahanoy Plane, Pa., Wednesday, July 31, 2013. The Gilberton Borough Council voted to suspend borough police Chief Mark Kessler for 30 days without pay at Wednesday night's borough council meeting. (AP Photo/The Republican-Herald, Jacqueline Dormer)

Pro-gun, Pa. police chief suspended after video rant against John Kerry, U.N.

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Adm. Cecil E.D. Haney. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Inside the Ring: Russia boosts Cuba ties

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks in a security council meeting at United Nations Headquarters in New York, Thursday, July 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Secretary John Kerry makes waves with reference to Palestine as country

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

HOLMES: Second time’s no charm for flawed U.N. disability pact

By Kim R. Holmes

Military equipment lays in containers aboard a North Korean-flagged ship at the Manzanillo International container terminal on the coast of Colon City, Panama, Tuesday, July 16, 2013. A North Korean ship carrying weapons system parts buried under sacks of sugar was seized as it tried to cross the Panama Canal on its way from Cuba to its home country, which is under a United Nations arms embargo, Panamanian officials said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Panama charges crew of N. Korean freighter carrying weapons

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Embassy Row: ‘Suffer and leave’

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Samantha Power, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next U.N. Ambassador, listens to Obama speak in the Rose Garden at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 5, 2013, where he made the announcement. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Samantha Power, U.N. ambassador nominee, sidesteps questions on comments critical of U.S.

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This 2009 file photograph, originally released by Iran's semi-official Fars News Agency, purports to show the launch of a Shahab-3 medium-range missile at an undisclosed location in Iran. (Associated Press)

Russia, China faulted for blocking new U.N. sanctions on Iran

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

The North Korean-flagged cargo ship Chong Chon Gang (in yellow) sits docked at the Manzanillo International Container Terminal on the coast at Colon City, Panama, early on Tuesday, July 16, 2013. Panama's president said the country has seized the ship, which was carrying what appeared to be ballistic missiles and other arms. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)

Panama finds air defense missiles on North Korean freighter

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** A United Nations soldier in Darfur (UNAMID) stands guard at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Darfur.

U.N. says 7 peacekeepers killed in deadliest ever attack on international troops in Darfur

Associated Press

**FILE** In this July 3, 2013, citizen journalism image provided by Lens Young Homsi, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, buildings damaged by Syrian government airstrikes and shelling are seen in the Jouret al-Chiyah neighborhood of Homs, Syria. (Associated Press)

Syrian army launches heavy barrage on city of Homs

By Bassem Mroue and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Support Taiwan’s bid for ICAO observer status

The Washington Times

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a Syrian security agent looking at a damaged antique shop after a blast struck in the vicinity of the Greek Orthodox Virgin Mary Church in the predominantly Christian neighborhood of Bab Sharqi in central Damascus, Syria, Thursday, June 27, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

U.N. peacekeepers at Israeli-Syria border to get armored vehicles, machine guns

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A U.N. committee in charge of monitoring arms sanctions on North Korea concludes that China provided off-road vehicles — "lumber transporters" — that were converted into long-range missile launchers by the North Korean military.

Inside the Ring: China breaks sanctions

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Somalis carry a man who was wounded during an attack on the U.N. compound in Mogadishu, Somalia Wednesday, June 19, 2013. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Somali militants live-tweet deadly attack on U.N. compound

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

African Union peacekeepers and unidentified foreigners stand outside the main U.N. compound following an attack in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Al-Qaeda-linked militants detonated multiple bomb blasts and engaged in ongoing battles with security forces in an attempt to breach the compound in the Somali capital, officials said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

Al Qaeda militants storm U.N. compound in Somali capital, kill 12

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Mourners carry the coffin of a man killed in a liquor store attack in Baghdad, Iraq, May 15, 2013. More than a year after the U.S. military left Iraq, the country is reeling from its most sustained violence since 2008. Over the last two months more than 1,200 people have been killed, raising fears the country is sliding back into chaos. (Associated Press)

Rocket attack kills 2 Iranian dissidents, wounds dozens in Iraq

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

SMITH: China draws a line in the ocean

By Jeff M. Smith

Illustration: Climate change

SADAR: Climate-change hype turns 25

By Anthony J. Sadar