By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
A North Korean delegation to China appears to have been gently snubbed ahead of a meeting Friday with Chinese President Xi Jinping, according to one regional analyst, who say the visitors’ treatment is part of Beijing’s effort to reign in its troublesome, isolated and poverty stricken neighbor. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times
A group of influential retired diplomats urged the Obama administration to move carefully in filling a key State Department post focused on growing interactive programs with the citizens of America’s allies and adversaries around the world. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
President Obama’s pledge to scale back lethal drone strikes against suspected terrorists and to be more transparent about them may not have pleased Republicans, but it did draw praise in Pakistan and Yemen, where almost all of the strikes take place, and from the U.N. official investigating U.S. targeted killing. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times
Terrorism analysts are rebutting President Obama’s assertion that the “scale of the threat” from Islamic terrorists has reverted to pre-Sept. 11, 2001, levels. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times
The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and a top Republican senator on Thursday told President Obama that he and his aides must meet with immigration law enforcement “whistleblowers” who can expose the flaws in the Senate immigration bill. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times
A loud explosion, followed up by heavy gunfire, was heard in the capital city of Kabul near government buildings on Friday afternoon around 4 p.m local time. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
British Prime Minister David Cameron is demanding intelligence and security heads explain how two Islamist terror suspects could massacre a soldier in the streets when the two had been surveillance targets of MI5 for the past eight years. Published May 24, 2013 Comments
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times
Radical Muslim cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, whose fiery rhetoric has left him banned from Britain, referred to the suspected terrorists who hacked a soldier to death on a London street as "heroes" who carried out God's will. Published May 24, 2013
By Gillian Flaccus - Associated Press
U.S. Navy Lt. Mike McGrath was just 27 years old, with a wife and two toddler sons in the U.S., when he was shot down and taken prisoner on his 179th bombing mission during the Vietnam War. Published May 23, 2013
By Gregory Katz - Associated Press
A brave scout leader who may have prevented further violence has emerged as an unlikely hero in the apparent terror attack that left one man dead on the streets of London. Published May 23, 2013
By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times
A California Democrat on the U.S. House Armed Services Committee put the Pentagon on notice of her intent to finally end a failing and heavily criticized missile defense program. Published May 23, 2013
By Associated Press
Repeated sexual assaults in the military allow the culture to continue, a lawmaker said Thursday. Published May 23, 2013
By Paisley Dodds - Associated Press
A British government official says both suspects in the brutal killing of a solider were part of previous security services investigations for possible terror links. Published May 23, 2013
By Miles Yu
The May 9 fatal shooting of a Taiwanese fisherman by the Philippine coast guard set off an inadvertent naval competition between Taiwan and China. Published May 23, 2013
By Riaz Khan - Associated Press
An American citizen killed in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan in 2011 was arrested by Pakistani authorities three years earlier but escaped after being released on bail, officials said Thursday. Published May 23, 2013
By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times
Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday he expects that the use of drone planes will continue to play a significant role in the global "War on Terror," and that the prison at Guantanamo Bay should remain open. Published May 23, 2013
