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  • Ryan Crocker

    Embassy Row: 'A failing state'

    A former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan is worried that the nuclear-armed South Asian nation could collapse as a growing number of Islamic terrorists are targeting soldiers, civilians and government officials.


  • Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi (Associated Press)

    Iran's foreign minister blasts Israel's 'war drum beaters'

    Iran’s foreign minister on Monday accused Israel's leaders of being "war drum beaters" and said his country will zealously defend itself against any attack.


  • **FILE** President Obama speaks Sept. 12, 2012, in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

    Obama's 'tested and proven' foreign-policy claim put to test

    In accepting his party's renomination a week ago, President Obama called himself a "tested and proven" leader in a dangerous world of threats from abroad, especially from the terrorist-spawning Middle East. But a week later, with Muslim protests flaring at U.S. diplomatic posts across the Middle East and with four Americans killed in Libya, the gentler foreign policy pillar upon which Mr. Obama supports his re-election bid is in danger of toppling.


  • Chen Guangcheng speaks May 31, 2012, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Guangcheng is a blind Chinese activist whose dramatic escape earlier in the month from house arrest culminated in a flight to the U.S. (Associated Press)

    Blind activist hits China's commitment to rule of law

    The blind Chinese civil rights activist who escaped from house arrest in April says China's government needs to stop trying to "put a lid" on its problems and pretending they don't exist.


  • Saad Saif, 25, gets a tattoo done by Mohammed Abass, 28, in Baghdad. He is one of many young Iraqis who have adopted the ways of some of the U.S. soldiers who have been in their country for eight years. For them, rap music, tattoos and American slang are part of what the departing forces are leaving behind. (Associated Press)

    U.S. military legacy rubs off on Iraqi youth

    After more than eight years in Iraq, the departing American military's legacy includes a fledgling democracy, bitter memories of war and, for the nation's youth, rap music, tattoos and slang.


  • US military legacy rubs off on Iraqi youth

    After more than eight years in Iraq, the departing American military's legacy includes a fledgling democracy, bitter memories of war, and for the nation's youth, rap music, tattoos and slang.


  • **FILE** Republican presidential hopeful and former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty speaks at the AFP RightOnline Conference in Minneapolis on June 18, 2011. (Associated Press/The Star Tribune)

    Pawlenty warns against 'isolationist' GOP

    In a thinly veiled swipe at his rivals in the 2012 Republican presidential field, former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty criticized the growing isolationist sentiments being expressed by some in the GOP ranks.


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