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    TIMMERMAN: Iran's free-election farce

    Every four years, the Islamic Republic of Iran engages in a closely choreographed farce of elections, aimed at maintaining the illusion that the Iranian people have a say in how their country is governed.


  • End U.S. support for Syrian rebels now

    America should end its intervention in Syria or shift its support to President Bashir Assad. Iraq-based al Qaeda militants now control the rebellion. A shadowy terrorist named Baghdadi has moved from Iraq to northern Syria to control al Qaeda's operations there. He is a grotesque savage, determined to compel acceptance of radical Islam through religious courts and executions.


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    Gary Sinise makes every day Memorial Day: Actor's foundation aides countless wounded warriors

    Actor Gary Sinise has years of experience helping the nation's veterans and first responders. Today, The Gary Sinise Foundation has taken that advocacy to a new level. Whether it's through his concerts with the Lt. Dan Band or by building "smart homes" for wounded war fighters, his work demonstrates that the nation's responsibility to its troops extends well beyond Memorial Day.


  • 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.


  • 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.


  • ** 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.


  • 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."


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