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** FILE ** One of the blast sites on Boylston Street near the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon is investigated by two people in protective suits in the wake of two blasts in Boston Monday, April 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Nightmare realized: Counterterrorism officials long feared IEDs would make way to U.S. shores

By Sara Carter - Washington Guardian

This image made from AP video shows the scene moments after a car bomb exploded in front of the Provincial Reconstruction Team in Qalat in Afghanistan's Zabul province on Saturday, April 6, 2013. Six American troops and civilians and an Afghan doctor were killed in attacks on Saturday in southern and eastern Afghanistan as the U.S. military's top officer began a weekend visit to the country, officials said. (AP Photo via AP video)

Secretary of State John Kerry mourns ‘selfless’ American diplomat killed in Afghanistan

By Bradley Klapper - Associated Press

A North Korean military guard post is seen near the border village of Panmunjom, which has separated the two Koreas since the Korean War, in Paju, north of Seoul, on Sunday, April 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

South Korea: North Korea may be preparing to test missile

By Hyung-jin Kim - Associated Press

South Korean soldiers patrol along a barbed-wire fence in Paju, South Korea, near the border village of Panmunjom, on Sunday, March 31, 2013. North Korea warned South Korea on Saturday that the Korean Peninsula had entered "a state of war" and threatened to shut down a border factory complex that's the last major symbol of inter-Korean cooperation. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon)

Greatest danger in Korea is ‘miscalculation,’ U.S. general says

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

Associated press photographs

Rising tensions on Korean Peninsula risk accidental war

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

** FILE ** New Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel speaks March 1, 2013, at a news conference at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

Pentagon’s budget fears fall on media’s deaf ears

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Afghan villager Ghulam Rasool sits in the yard of the house where he and his family found refuge in Khalis Family Village, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, March 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Afghan villagers flee their homes, blame U.S. drones

By Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

Female fighter pilots from the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing flew in combat missions in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom from a forward-deployed base in the Middle East. The Air Force now has 85 female pilots, or 2 percent of the total. (Courtesy of the U.S. Air Force)

She has the right stuff: Female combat pilots have been flashing their skills for 20 years

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry (left) walks to a meeting with Afghan President Hamid Karzai (center) at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, March 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Jason Reed, Pool)

Secretary of State John Kerry praises plans for ‘safe’ Afghan elections

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan, gestures during an interview with the Associated Press at his headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, March 18, 2013. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

U.S., Afghanistan reach deal on Wardak troop pullout

By Kimberly Dozier - Associated Press

This undated photo provided by the U.S. Air Force shows a Canadian Air Force F-18 Hornet jet (left) escorting a Russian TU-95 Bear heavy bomber out of Canadian airspace. Japanese interceptor jets were scrambled to intercept two TU-95s recently. (Associated Press)

Inside the Ring: New Bear bomber flights

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

In this June 1, 2009, file photo, former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks at the National Press Club in Washington. Cheney says he underwent heart surgery last week and is recuperating. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Dick Cheney blasts Obama’s ‘second-rate’ national security team

Associated Press

Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta will testify to a Senate panel that hopes to get satisfactory answers Thursday to questions about the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya. (Associated Press)

Still seeking Benghazi answers, Senate panel to quiz Panetta

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A French soldier directs helicopters near Timbuktu, Mali, on Jan. 28, 2013. Backed by French helicopters and paratroopers, Malian soldiers entered the fabled city of Timbuktu on Monday after al Qaeda-linked militants who ruled the outpost by fear for nearly 10 months fled into the desert, setting fire to a library that held thousands of manuscripts dating to the Middle Ages. (Associated Press/French Army Communications Audiovisual office)

Inside the Ring: New al Qaeda threat

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Times

Chadian soldiers patrol the streets of Gao, northern Mali, on Jan. 28, 2013. After securing a strategic bridge and the airport in Gao the day before, Malian troops backed by French helicopters and paratroopers entered the fabled city of Timbuktu, north of Gao, on Monday after al Qaeda-linked militants fled into the desert. (Associated Press)

U.S. won’t be taking a combat role in Mali

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Army Pvt. Danny Chen, 19, allegedly was hazed by eight fellow soldiers to the point that he committed suicide in October 2011. (U.S. Army via Associated Press)

Military suicides hit record high of 349 in 2012

By Robert Burns - Associated Press

Illustration: Military.

LYONS: Draft of new U.S. Army handbook must be scrapped

By Adm. James A. Lyons

Illustration Benghazi Questions by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

BOYKIN: Congress asking the wrong questions on Benghazi

By Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin

** FILE ** U.S. Army Sgt. William Womack, 23, of Batesville, Ga., of the 118th Military Police Company, based at Fort Bragg, N.C., is prone during a training session for the Afghan National Police at a combat outpost in the Jalrez Valley in Afghanistan's Wardak Province in 2009. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)

In Afghan Taliban’s birthplace, U.S. troops step back

By Patrick Quinn - Associated Press

Illustration Radical Feminism by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

HESCHMEYER: Radical feminism waging the real war on women

By Joseph Heschmeyer