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** FILE ** Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Hoshyar Zebari speaks May 22, 2012, in Baghdad during an interview with the Associated Press. (Associated Press)

Iran is offered new plans to ease nuclear concerns

By Ali Akbar Dareini and Lara Jakes - Associated Press

Lebanese anti-Syrian regime critic Shadi Mawlawi (center), who was accused of belonging to a terrorist group, is carried May 22, 2012, on his friends' shoulders in the northern port city of Tripoli, Lebanon, as they celebrate his release from jail. (Associated Press)

Bomb kills 5 in Syrian capital

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

U.S. Navy via Associated Press
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis transits the Strait of Hormuz on Nov. 12. The Pentagon declared Tuesday that U.S. warships will continue regularly scheduled deployments to the strategic waterway, despite warnings against doing so from Iran.

GAFFNEY: Bad timing for LOST

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times

Masked Sunni gunmen hold their weapons May 21, 2012, as they attend the funeral procession of anti-Syrian regime Sunni cleric Sheik Ahmed Abdul-Wahid, who was shot at a Lebanese army checkpoint, at his hometown village of Beireh, Lebanon. (Associated Press)

Violence in Syria spills over into Lebanon

By Ben Hubbard and Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Illustration by John Camejo for The Washington Times

FEULNER: Sink the Law of the Sea Treaty

By Ed Feulner - The Washington Times

Syrians chant slogans during a demonstration in the Zabadani neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, on Friday, May 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Fadi Zaidan)

Bomb explodes near top U.N. officials in Syria

By Albert Aji and Zeina Karam - Associated Press

World Briefs: Israelis mark 45 years since E. Jerusalem’s seizure

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

**FILE** Syrian President Bashar Assad (Associated Press/SANA)

Largest protests yet in Syrian city of Aleppo

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Syrian President Bashar Assad, in a speech Tuesday at Damascus University, said he would not step down and insisted that he still has his people's support despite a 10-month-old uprising against him. (SANA via Associated Press)

Syrian opposition head offers to resign

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syrian soldiers are seen through the damaged window of a military truck that was hit by a roadside bomb in Daraa, Syria, on Wednesday, May 9, 2012. The blast occurred just seconds after a team of U.N. observers passed by. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

U.N. team evacuated from tense Syrian town

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Monday, April, 9, 2007, file photo Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaks at a ceremony in Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, 300 Kilometers (186 miles) south of capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)

Iran’s tough nuclear stance masks struggles at top

By Ali Akbar Dareini and Brian Murphy - Associated Press

Trent Lott, former senator from Mississippi (Associated Press)

GAFFNEY: False-flag operation on LOST

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - The Washington Times

Former Syrian soldiers hold flags of the Syrian revolution as they stand in front their armored personnel carrier shortly after defecting and joining the rebels in the Khaldiyeh neighborhood in Homs province in central Syria on Saturday, May 12, 2012. (AP Photo/Fadi Zaidan)

Activists: At least 5 killed in Syrian village raid

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

The Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS), a nonprofit that monitors the Iranian nuclear program, published May 9, 2012, on its website this satellite photo of Iran's Parchin military base. (Courtesy of isis-online.org)

Photo shows suspicious activity at Iranian military site

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Military is target of Syria road blast; 6 injured

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

An injured Syrian army soldier (left) walks next to his comrade May 9, 2012, after a roadside bomb hit their military truck in Daraa city, southern Syria. (Associated Press)

Blast near U.N. car shows fragility of Syria truce

By Bassem Mroue and Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

Briefly: Red Cross says 1.5 million in Syria lack basics

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks May 8, 2012, during a joint press conference with Indian Foreign Minister S.M. Krishna in New Delhi. (Associated Press)

Lawyer: Clinton to decide Iranian exiles’ fate after they move

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

A Syrian casts his vote at a polling station in Damascus, Syria, the capital, during parliamentary elections on Monday, May 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Muzaffar Salman)

Syrians vote in election dismissed as a sham

By Bassem Mroue and Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

A U.N. observer (center) inspects what residents of the town of Taftanaz, Syria, tell him is a mass grave in this image made from amateur video released by Ugarit News and accessed on Saturday, May 5, 2012. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP video)

Syrian opposition urges election boycott

By Ben Hubbard and Karin Laub - Associated Press