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**FILE** Iraqi police stand guard outside Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, in December 2011. (Associated Press/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)

Iranian dissidents: Iraq trying to force us into ‘concentration camp’

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

A giant blue chair bearing the words "Palestine's Right: Full Membership in the United Nations" sits in the central square of Ramallah in the West Bank, reinforcing Palestinians' ultimate goal to all who pass by. (Ben Birnbaum/The Washington Times)

Palestinians to renew efforts for bid to U.N.

By Ben Birnbaum - The Washington Times

UN sets stage for blazing fast new mobile devices

By JOHN HEILPRIN - Associated Press

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati attend the opening session of a conference on democracy in the Arab world in Beirut on Sunday, Jan. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

U.N. chief: Syria’s Assad must stop violence

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

** FILE ** Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (center) visits the Natanz uranium enrichment facility, about 200 miles from the capital of Tehran, in April 2008. (AP Photo/Iranian President's Office)

U.N. nuke agency to visit Tehran on Jan. 28

By George Jahn - Associated Press

Director Angelina Jolie, talking with actors in "In the Land of Blood and Honey," says she doesn't think of the film, which she also wrote, as having a partisan tilt in the ethnic strife endemic to Bosnia. (Film District via Associated Press)

Angelina Jolie goes to war

By Peter Suderman - Special to The Washington Times

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas could pay a heavy price among Palestinians if he returns to formal peace negotiations without an Israeli settlement freeze. (Associated Press)

Jordan-backed talks may help Palestinian leader

By Josef Federman - Associated Press

150 children lose parents in South Sudan violence

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) speaks Jan. 1, 2012, during the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. (Associated Press)

Palestinians warn of ‘new measures’ if talks fail

By Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

Embassy Row

By James Morrison - The Washington Times

In this Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2011 photo released by the Korean Central News Agency and distributed in Tokyo by the Korea News Service on Thursday, Dec. 29, North Korea's next leader Kim Jong Un, center, with officials, pays respects to late leader Kim Jong Il, during the funeral at Kumsusan Memorial Palace in Pyongyang, North Korea. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service)

Ceremonies cement Kim as ‘supreme’ in N. Korea

By Andrew Salmon - Special to The Washington Times

For Iran, cost of closing strait may outweigh gain

By Lee Keath - Associated Press

Above: Onlookers gather around the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, on Christmas Day. A radical Muslim sect claimed responsibility for the attack and for another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos. Below: Rescue workers remove the body of one of the victims. (Associated Press)

Islamists intensify Nigeria’s divisions

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis (right) said Cyprus "cannot accept the 200 or 300 thousand settlers who have come illegally to the occupied areas during the last 37 years." (Associated Press)

Some Turkish settlers would be welcome in united Cyprus

By Ben Birnbaum - The Washington Times

**FILE** Iraqi police stand guard outside Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, in December 2011. (Associated Press/People's Mujahedeen Organization of Iran)

U.N. and Iraq reach deal on Iranian dissidents

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times

Briefly: Middle East

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Federal Communications Commission Commissioner Robert McDowell answers a question during a meeting with editors and reporters of The Washington Times on Monday, Dec. 19, 2011. (Rod Lamkey Jr./The Washington Times)

FCC official: ‘Internet freedom’ threatened

By Tim Devaney - The Washington Times

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

OXLEY: Solyndra debacle goes global

By Ambassador Alan Oxley - The Washington Times

Palestinians demonstrate for statehood in Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank city of Bethlehem in May. Now at Christmastime, Palestinians in Jesus' traditional birthplace of Bethlehem are aiming to re-energize their bid for recognition. (Associated Press)

Palestinians’ yule statehood gambit

By Mohammed Daraghmeh - Associated Press

Conferees find consensus on new accord on climate change

By Arthur Max - Associated Press