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** FILE ** In this Dec. 22, 2011, file photo released by Press Information Department, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, right, talks with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari during their meeting at President House in Islamabad, Pakistan. (AP Photo/Press Information Department, HO, File)

Pakistan’s P.M. appeals for support in standoff

By Heidi Vogt and Kathy Gannon - Associated Press

BOOK REVIEW: ‘American Sniper’

By Joshua Sinai - Special to The Washington Times

This image from amateur video made available by the Ugarit News group and shot Jan. 12, 2012, purports to show protesters demonstrating against the killing of a French journalist in Daraa, Syria. (Associated Press/Ugarit News Group via APTN)

Arab League chief warns of Syria civil war

By Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

Pyone Cho (center), an activist of the 88 Generation Students Group, joins his parents upon his arrival at Yangon airport after released from a prison in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar freed some of its most famous political inmates Friday, sparking jubilation outside prison gates while signaling its readiness to meet Western demands for lifting economic sanctions. (Associated Press)

Myanmar frees many prominent political prisoners

By Aye Aye Win - Associated Press

**FILE** Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (Associated Press)

Panetta: Army to withdraw 2 brigades from Europe

By Juan Carlos Llorca - Associated Press

Guatemala president hopes to regain U.S. military aid

By Romina Ruiz-Goiriena - Associated Press

Futile death in Afghanistan

The Washington Times

**FILE** Taliban militants, who were arrested by Afghan Border Police, stand over their guns July 4, 2011, while they are presented to the media at the Afghan Border Police headquarters in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, east of Kabul, Afghanistan. All of them were dressed as women and at least one was strapped with an explosive vest. (Associated Press)

Taliban ‘optimistic’ about peace talks with U.S.

By Kristina Wong - The Washington Times

Freed inmates leave the Insein prison in Yangon, Myanmar, on Jan. 3, 2012. Families of political prisoners in Myanmar say a government clemency offer falls short of national reconciliation promises and shows that prisoners of conscience may remain incarcerated for a long time. (Associated Press)

Myanmar: 651 convicts to be freed under pardon

Associated Press

** FILE ** Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari (AP Photo/Anjum Naveed)

Amid crisis, Pakistan president travels to Dubai

By Chris Brummitt - Associated Press

**FILE** Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta (Associated Press)

Panetta assures Afghans of full probe of Marines

By Pauline Jelinek and Robert Burns - Associated Press

Colombian hostage’s ex-husband sells film rights

By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Associated Press

World Scene

By Wire dispatches and staff reports

**FILE** This image made on Jan. 12, 2012, from an undated video posted on the Internet by a YouTube user self-identified as "semperfiLoneVoice" shows men in U.S. Marine combat gear standing in a semicircle over three bodies. U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta branded as "utterly despicable" the video purporting to show four U.S. Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban fighters. (Associated Press)

Officials close to identifying Marines in urination video

By Shaun Waterman - The Washington Times

An Afghan border policeman, left, along with U.S. soldiers are seen near the scene of a suicide attack in Kandahar south of Kabul, Afghanistan, Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. A teenage suicide bomber slipped inside police headquarters in Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, detonating his cache of explosives and wounding one officer, the chief of the headquarters said. (AP Photo/Allauddin Khan)

Taliban: Afghan talks won’t mean end to fighting

By Slobodan Lekic - Associated Press

French television cameraman Gilles Jacquier, shown in an undated photo, was killed on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012, in Homs, Syria, while on assignment. (AP Photo)

French cameraman killed in Syria

By Elizabeth A. Kennedy - Associated Press

Iranian security forces stand guard around the site of an explosion that killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of Iran's Natanz uranium enrichment facility, in Tehran on Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/International Iran Photo Agency, Sajjad Safari)

Fourth nuclear scientist in 2 years killed in Iran

By Abraham Rabinovich - Special to The Washington Times

Angry youths protest Jan. 11, 2012 at Lekki road on the third day of a nationwide strike following the removal of a fuel subsidy by the government in Lagos, Nigeria. (Associated Press)

Youths go on rampage in Nigeria’s north, killing 1

By Ibrahim Garba and Jon Gambrill - Associated Press

Briefly

By Wire dispatches and staff reports

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Other victims of the Holocaust

The Washington Times