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Dave Boyer

dboyer@washingtontimes.com

Dave Boyer is a White House correspondent for The Washington Times. A native of Allentown, Pa., Boyer worked for the Philadelphia Inquirer from 2002 to 2011 and also has covered Congress for the Times. He is a graduate of Penn State University. Boyer can be reached at dboyer@washingtontimes.com.

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In this image made from undated video obtained by The Associated Press, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a man believed to be Peter Theo Curtis, a U.S. citizen held hostage by an al-Qaida linked group in Syria, delivers a statement. The U.S. government said on Sunday, Aug. 24, 2014 that Curtis, who had been held hostage for about two years, had been released. (AP Photo)

American hostage Peter Theo Curtis freed in Syria

A U.S. journalist held hostage for nearly two years by al Qaeda's branch in Syria was freed Sunday, turned over to U.N. peacekeepers less than a week after another American was executed by a rival terrorist group.

August 24, 2014
Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda (left), unveils a stone during a ceremony naming Antigua's highest mountain "Mount Obama." The president's name has also been lent in rechristenings at other places around the globe. (Associated Press)

Obama tribute sparks backlash in New Jersey town of Willingboro

Everything from streets to a parasitic hairworm have been named in honor of President Obama, but the effort to immortalize him is causing a backlash in one New Jersey town, whose elected leaders are reconsidering their vote to place the president's name on a recreation center.

August 21, 2014
In this image taken Saturday Aug 16, 2014 humanitarian aid is unloaded at a warehouse in Severodonetsk, Luhansk region, Aug. 16, 2014 to later be distributed to the locals in the conflict zones, and in towns in Luhansk region that have been recently retaken by the Ukrainian army. After months of rebel occupation and weeks of Ukrainian liberation, the residents of Lysychansk in the Luhansk region a shell-shocked border town say they hope simply to rebuild their former lives _ but fear the return of war to their doorstep.(AP Photo/Vitnija Saldava)

White House salutes humanitarian workers

The White House marked World Humanitarian Day on Tuesday by noting that 460 aid workers were the victims of violence in 30 countries last year.

August 19, 2014
FILE - In this Friday, March 26, 2010 file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's Nouri al-Maliki has given up his post as prime minister to Haider al-Abadi, state television reported Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 — a move that could end a political deadlock that plunged Baghdad into uncertainty as the country fights a Sunni militant insurgency. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki resigns as prime minister amid chaos

Embattled Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki stepped down Thursday, ending a stalemate that had worsened Baghdad's political chaos in recent weeks and crippled the nation's ability to quell a surge of extremist Sunni militants.

August 14, 2014
President Barack Obama speaks about the situations in Iraq and in Ferguson, Mo., Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, in Edgartown, Mass., during his family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama: U.S. broke militants’ siege on Iraq’s Mount Sinjar

President Obama declared Thursday that U.S. forces have broken the siege by Islamist militants against ethnic minorities seeking refuge on a mountain in northern Iraq, and said it won't be necessary to conduct a rescue operation.

August 14, 2014
President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about the situations in Iraq and in Ferguson, Mo., Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014, in Edgartown, Mass., during his family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama scolds police in Missouri: Must be held to ‘higher standard’

President Obama stepped into a racially charged police shooting in Missouri on Thursday, calling on local police to show restraint with demonstrators as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. criticized the authorities' military-style tactics and Gov. Jay Nixon ordered state police to take over security in the roiling town of Ferguson.

August 14, 2014
U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks during a press conference with Australia's Defense Minister David Johnston in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Hagel is in Australia along with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for talks with government officials as part of the annual Australia-United States Ministerial talks.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith, Pool)

Obama puts 130 ground troops in Iraq

Escalating his week-old military mission in Iraq, President Obama ordered about 130 U.S. ground troops to scout escape routes for Iraqis trapped on a mountain by Islamist extremists, and the White House on Wednesday didn't rule out sending a larger ground force to rescue the refugees.

August 13, 2014
**FILE** CIA Director John O. Brennan speaks in Washington on March 11, 2014. (Associated Press)

CIA Director John Brennan downplayed Islamic State threat as ‘absurd’

The White House is facing questions about whether it underestimated the threat from Islamic State militants in Iraq after the surfacing of a 2011 speech by John O. Brennan, then President Obama's counterterrorism chief and now CIA director, who dismissed the danger of an Islamic caliphate as "absurd."

August 13, 2014
FILE - In this Tuesday, July 15, 2014 file photo, Shiite lawmaker and Deputy Parliament Speaker Haider al-Abadi speaks to the media after an Iraqi parliament session in Baghdad. On Monday, Aug. 11, 2014, Iraq's largest coalition of Shiite political parties chose al-Ibadi to be its candidate to lead the government in a major defeat for incumbent Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki just hours after he declared himself the rightful candidate and put troops on the street. Critics say the Shiite al-Maliki contributed to the crisis by monopolizing power and pursuing a sectarian agenda that alienated the country's Sunni and Kurdish minorities. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Obama, Iran endorse Iraq’s prime minister-designate Haider al-Ibadi

Iraq's prime minister-designate won pledges of extra military and economic support from the Obama administration Tuesday. Iran also endorsed the nominee, who called for an end to the sectarian feuds that have allowed Islamist militants to seize one-third of the country.

August 12, 2014
**FILE** Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community settle at a camp at Derike, Syria, on Aug. 10, 2014. In a dusty camp here, Iraqi refugees have new heroes: Syrian Kurdish fighters who battled militants to carve an escape route to tens of thousands trapped on a mountaintop. While the U.S. and Iraqi militaries dropped food and water to the starving members of Iraq's Yazidi minority, the Kurds took it on themselves to rescue them, a sign of how Syria's Kurds — like Iraq's — are using the region's conflicts to establish their own rule. (Associated Press)

Obama, Iran both throw support to new Iraqi P.M.-designate

Iraq's new prime minister-designate won pledges of extra military and economic support from the Obama administration Tuesday, while Iran also endorsed the nominee, who called for an end to the sectarian feuds that have allowed Islamist extremists to seize a third of the country.

August 12, 2014
In this photo taken Friday, May 9, 2014 and made available Tuesday, May, 13, 2014, women and children wait to be treated at a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) in Leer, in oil-rich Unity State, South Sudan. Bodies stuffed in wells. Houses burned down. Children playing on military hardware. And young infants showing the skeletal outlines of severe hunger. These are the scenes from a remote part of South Sudan _ Leer _ where the aid group Doctors Without Borders has just begun feeding severely malnourished children about three months after the group’s hospital was destroyed in violence that has been ripping apart the country since December. (AP Photo/Josphat Kasire)

U.S. sends $180M in food to relieve S. Sudan famine

A week after President Obama hosted the president of South Sudan at a White House feast, the administration criticized its leaders and said the U.S. is sending $180 million worth of food to the strife-ridden country.

August 12, 2014