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  • Emergency workers pull out a woman who was trapped in a building that was destroyed when a tornado ripped through Moore, Okla., on Monday, May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/The Transcript, Kyle Phillips )

    Amid Oklahoma debris, U.S. flag emerges as sign of strength, hope

    Tragedy, devastation, suffering and loss may be the prevailing moods in Oklahoma, where recent tornadoes have torn apart a whole community of 41,000 and left dozens dead and more than 100 injured. But among the debris now hangs an American flag.


  • Illustration by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    LYONS: Dereliction of duty

    President Obama's policy of "change" for America was never defined, but it was implemented in a very sophisticated manner.


  • ** FILE ** Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets with President Thein Sein at the presidential office in the capital of Naypyitaw in 2010. (Associated Press)

    Myanmar's promises unfulfilled as leader meets with Obama

    Myanmar's president will meet Monday with President Obama amid criticism that the Southeast Asian country has done little to end its war against ethnic minority rebels, protect stateless Muslims or institutionalize democratic reforms that have been promised since its military junta was dissolved in 2011.


  • ** FILE ** This U.S. Army photo made available by the Russell family on Tuesday, May 12, 2009, shows U.S. Army Sgt. John M. Russell. Russell pleaded guilty Monday to killing four other soldiers and a Navy officer in 2009 at mental health clinic in Baghdad during the Iraq War. The plea agreement in a military court at Joint Base Lewis-McChord means Russell will avoid the death sentence. (AP Photo/Family photo)

    Army combat stress expert gets life sentence for shooting 5 soldiers in Iraq

    An Army sergeant who worked at a combat stress clinic in Iraq but went on a rampage and killed five colleagues in 2009 was sentenced to life in prison without parole.


  • Iraqis gather at the scene of a bomb attack in Baqouba, northeast of Baghdad, on May 17, 2013. The bomb killed dozens of people at a Sunni mosque, hitting worshippers as they were emerging from Friday prayers, security officials said. (Associated Press)

    Mosque, funeral bombings kill 47 in Iraq

    Twin explosions ripped through a crowd of Sunni worshippers outside Baghdad on Friday, an attack which, combined with a second deadly bombing at a Sunni funeral to the south of the capital, deepened fears Iraq may be headed toward a new round of sectarian conflict.


  • President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (left) is not on the ballot in June's election. He is shown with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (center) and chief of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. (Associated Press)

    KAHLILI: Syrian crisis signals Iranian vulnerability

    Shortly after Israeli warplanes struck inside Syria to take out Iranian missiles intended for Hezbollah, Iranian Defense Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi said, "The attack carried out by the Zionist regime will shorten this fake regime's life."


  • Onlookers gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad on Thursday, May 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

    Car bombs, shooting in Iraq leave 17 dead

    Car bombs struck Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and a northern city on Thursday, killing 16 people, while gunmen in Baghdad shot dead the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said.


  • Islam links strengthen in Boston bombing case

    Evidence about the Boston Marathon bombing suspects' ties to Islamism and Chechen radicals deepened Thursday as multiple news outlets reported that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev claimed the attacks were made on behalf of Islam in retaliation for U.S. foreign policy.


  • People gather at the scene of a car bomb attack in the Sadr City neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, May 16, 2013. A car bomb explosion in a sprawling Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad has killed and wounded dozens of people, officials said. (AP Photo/ Karim Kadim)

    Car bombs, shooting in Iraq leave 15 dead

    Four car bombs killed over a dozen people in sprawling Shiite neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital and in a northern city on Thursday morning, while gunmen cut down the brother of a Sunni lawmaker, officials said.


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