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  • A security official stands guard at the scene of a suicide car bomb attack at the National Directorate of Security in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013. A series of early morning attacks hit in the country's east on Sunday, with three separate suicide bombings in outlying provinces and a shootout between security forces and a would-be attacker in the capital of Kabul. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

    Afghanistan: U.S. special forces must leave strategic eastern province

    Afghanistan's president on Sunday ordered all U.S. special forces to leave a strategically important eastern province within two weeks because of allegations that Afghans working with them are torturing and abusing other Afghans.


  • Dissidents blame camp attack on Iraq

    An Iranian dissident group says Iraq's government had a hand in a rocket and mortar attack on its refugee camp north of Baghdad where seven people were killed and dozens injured earlier this month.


  • On July 19, 2012, a bomb on a bus taking Israelis from the airport in Sofia, Bulgaria, to their hotel at a Black Sea resort killed five of the tourists and the driver. Bulgarian officials said Tuesday that Hezbollah terrorists were behind the attack. (Impact Press Group via Associated Press)

    Hezbollah behind attack that killed Jewish tourists

    Hezbollah terrorists were responsible for the attack on a bus filled with Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday, describing a sophisticated bombing carried out by a cell that included Canadian and Australian citizens.


  • ** FILE ** President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday, March 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

    Obama plans first trip as president to Israel

    After taking heat from Republicans for failing to make the trip during his first term in office, President Obama will make his first visit to Israel as president in the coming months, the White House confirmed Tuesday.


  • ** FILE ** A bombing targeted a bus full of Israeli vacationers at the Burgas, Bulgaria, airport parking lot on Wednesday, July 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Bulgarian Interior Ministry)

    Bulgaria links Hezbollah to bombing of Israelis

    Hezbollah was behind a bus attack that killed five Israeli tourists in Bulgaria last year, investigators said Tuesday, describing a sophisticated bombing carried out by a terrorist cell that included Canadian and Australian citizens.


  • ** FILE ** President Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Monday, March 5, 2012. (Associated Press)

    Obama to visit Israel for first time as president

    President Obama will visit Israel, the West Bank and Jordan in the spring, the White House said Tuesday, marking his first visit since becoming president.


  • In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency, SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, meets with Iran's Chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, in Damascus, Syria, Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

    Iran defends Syria, vows Israel will regret attack

    Iran has rushed to the defense of its regional ally, Syria, and vowed Israel will regret its "latest aggression" — the airstrikes over Syria last week.


  • ** FILE ** Thomas Pickering (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

    Benghazi prober: Identify security flaws, pay better attention

    The retired diplomat who led the State Department's probe of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, says officials need to learn two lessons from incident — "red team" more often and pay better attention.


  • Inside Politics: Lawmaker tries again for new WWI memorial

    A Texas congressman has revived his effort to build a National World War I Memorial on the Mall, an effort that did not come to fruition last year amid concerns about new construction on the heavily trafficked strip of federal land.


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