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  • **FILE** John Brennan, then-nominee for CIA director, testifies Feb. 7, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee. (Associated Press)

    CIA chief John Brennan in Israel on mystery stop

    The head of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency made an unannounced visit to Israel on Friday to meet with Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon.


  • LETTER TO THE EDITOR: The great Hawking boycott irony

    If Stephen Hawking, as a scientist, wants to be logical in his boycott of anything associated with Israeli technology, including conferences that are being held in Israel, then he should extend his efforts to banning the use of Israeli developments and products ("Why Stephen Hawking's Israel boycott matters," Web, May 11). Unfortunately, such an action would render his ability to communicate almost nil.


  • ** FILE ** Vladimir Putin has shown little interest in resetting Russian relations with the U.S. once again during his third term as president. (Ria Novosti via Associated Press)

    Russia sends warships, missiles to Syria

    Russia has sent more than a dozen war ships to patrol the waters near Syria, U.S. military spokesmen said on Friday.


  • ** FILE ** Ultra-orthodox Jewish men scuffle with Israeli security forcers during a prayer organized by the "Women of the Wall" organization, not pictured, at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray in Jerusalem's old city, Friday, May 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue)

    Orthodox Jews rally against forced military service in Israel

    Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel rallied against a new plan to force them to serve in the nation's military — a law they say violates their religious beliefs.


  • Illustration by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    KUHNER: Lawless in office

    President Obama is facing a perfect storm of scandals, cover-ups and criminality that threatens to sweep him from power. This week marks the 40th anniversary of the first Watergate hearings.


  • 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."


  • FBI agents carry boxes and a computer from the home of Paula Broadwell, the woman whose affair with retired Gen. David Petraeus led to his resignation as CIA director, in the Dilworth neighborhood of Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Nov. 13, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

    Feds take little action against U.S. Web companies hosting sites linked to terror

    Just miles from New York City’s hallowed Ground Zero, an Internet server in New Jersey hosts a Jihadist leader’s website that instructs supporters of al-Qaida to use explosive devices against western civilians, along with blueprints showing how to build the bombs.


  • **FILE** Locusts fly on to Fuerteventura Island, in the Spanish Canary Islands, on Nov. 29, 2004. The locusts have flown 100 kilometers (60 miles) across the ocean after a infestation that wreaked havoc in North Africa. (Associated Press/EFE)

    Locusts swarm Israel's desert in worst infestation in decades

    Huge swarms of newly hatched locusts have started their march across the sands of Negev Desert in Israel, eating much of the nation's technologically produced farmland, and teams of exterminators have been working nonstop to fight off the threat, NBC reported.


  • This image taken from video obtained from Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows a rocket fired by Syrian rebels at Mannagh air base in the Aleppo province of Syria on May 13, 2013. (Associated Press/Ugarit News via AP video)

    Syrian activists warn of regime attack near Lebanon

    Syrian opposition activists are warning of an imminent assault by President Bashar Assad's forces and Lebanese Hezbollah militants on a rebel-held town near the border with Lebanon.


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