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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Stop caving in to Russia, Iran, Syria

The Washington Times

This image made from amateur video on March 23, 2012, purports to show Syrians pulling out the body of a man under the rubble of a building that was bombed in Homs, Syria. (Associated Press/Syria Media Center via APTN)

Activists: Fresh clashes erupt in Syria

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Ahmad al-Qattan (center), Saudi Arabia's permanent representative to the League of Arab States, attends the annual Arab League summit in Baghdad on March, 29, 2012. (Associated Press)

Clinton, Saudi Arabia explore Syria crisis

By Abdullah Al-Shihri - Associated Press

Briefly: Gunmen kill 6, including 1 U.N. worker

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is the joint U.N.-Arab League envoy to Syria. (AP Photo/Lintao Zhang, Pool)

Syria accepts peace plan but clashes continue

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Israel bars U.N. team from probing settlements

By Amy Teibel - Associated Press

President Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak smile during a news conference at the Blue House, the official presidential house, in Seoul on Sunday, March 25, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama cautions N. Korea about ‘provocations’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Joseph Kony, seen in 2006, is leader of the Lord's Resistance Army, a Ugandan rebel militia that is blamed for tens of thousands of rapes, mutilations and killings over the past 26 years. U.S. Special Forces troops are helping hunt the LRA. (Associated Press)

African Union force to step up hunt for Kony

By Rodney Muhumuza - Associated Press

A general view of Damascus, Syria, is seen on March 22, 2012. Mounting international condemnation of Bashar Assad's regime and high-level diplomacy have failed to ease the year-old Syria conflict, which the U.N. says has killed more than 8,000 people. (Associated Press)

Syrian activists: Clashes near Turkish border

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this July 13, 2008, file photo, Syrian President Bashar Assad and his wife Asma arrive for a formal dinner after a Mediterranean Summit meeting at the Petit Palais in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

EU slaps sanctions on Assad’s wife, relatives

By Don Melvin and John Heilprin - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon waves as he leaves the Institute of Respiratory Medicine in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Thursday, March 22, 2012, after a visit in conjunction with the upcoming World Tuberculosis Day. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)

Clashes rage across Syria despite U.N. statement

By Ben Hubbard - Associated Press

HOLMES: The failure of an idea

By Kim R. Holmes

Kizza Besigye, a Ugandan opposition leader with the Forum for Democratic Change, gestures the party sign before being arrested Wednesday for holding a rally in the capital city Kampala. (Associated Press)

Briefly: U.N. accuses Congo forces of violations during elections

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

** FILE ** U.N. peace envoy Kofi Annan speaks to the media after a meeting with Syrian National Council members in Ankara, Turkey, on Tuesday, March 13, 2012. (AP Photo)

Diplomats: U.N. to back Annan’s Syria peace plan

By Edith M. Lederer and Peter James Spielmann - Associated Press

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)

Russia offers to back Annan’s Syria plan at U.N.

By Vladimir Isachenkov - Associated Press

Hancock launches International Jazz Day

By CHARLES J. GANS - Associated Press

Herbie Hancock launches International Jazz Day

By CHARLES J. GANS - Associated Press

The Washington Times

CLARKE: Opprobrium for friends of Iranian dissidents

By Lord Clarke - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Afghan prison security personnel march at the opening ceremony for the newly refurbished Pol-i-Charki prison in Kabul, Afghanistan, in March 2007. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq, File)

Afghan intelligence service: No torture at our prisons

By Heidi Vogt - Associated Press

** FILE ** A rocket lifts off from the launch pad in Musudan-ri, North Korea, in April 2009. (AP Photo/KRT TV, File)

North Korea vows to go ahead with rocket launch

Associated Press