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  • Iraqi Foreign Affairs Minister Hoshyar Zebari speaks May 22, 2012, in Baghdad during an interview with the Associated Press. (Associated Press)

    Iran is offered new plans to ease nuclear concerns

    Diplomats from six world powers offered Iran new proposals Wednesday to ease international concerns about its nuclear program, but appeared to reject Tehran's appeals to ease economic sanctions to help move along talks.

  • Senate panel votes to cut aid for Egypt and Pakistan

    In a fresh warning to Pakistan, a Senate panel approved Tuesday a foreign aid budget for next year that slashes President Obama's request for assistance to Islamabad by more than half and threatens further reductions if it fails to open supply routes to NATO forces in Afghanistan.

  • Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, speaks during a press conference at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Wednesday, May 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Ahmad Jamshid)

    Embassy: Crocker to leave as ambassador to Afghanistan

    Veteran U.S. diplomat Ryan Crocker will leave his post as ambassador to Afghanistan this summer, an embassy spokesman said Tuesday.

  • Yukiya Amano (center), director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), speaks to the media at Vienna International Airport near Schwechat, Austria, on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, after returning from Iran. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

    Iran signals wider U.N. access as nuclear talks loom

    Iran made the first move Tuesday in attempts to gain an edge in nuclear talks with the U.S. and other world powers: It agreed in principle to allow U.N. inspectors to restart probes into a military site suspected of harboring tests related to atomic weapons.

  • Turkey's president, Abdullah Gul, says he was told at the NATO summit that President Obama's administration is trying to persuade Congress to allow Predator drone sales to Turkey. (Associated Press)

    Obama administration inclined to sell armed drones to Turkey, leader says

    President Obama's administration is inclined to sell armed drones to Turkey but has to convince Congress first, Turkey's president told reporters after a meeting with the U.S. leader.

  • International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Yukiya Amano (left) talks with reporters during a news briefing at the conclusion of his meeting with Iran's top nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili (right), in Tehran on Monday, May 21, 2012. (AP Photo/IRNA, Adel Pazzyar)

    U.N. nuclear chief in Iran on key mission

    The head of the U.N nuclear watchdog, in Tehran on a key mission that could lead to the resumption of probes on whether Iran secretly has worked on a nuclear weapon, said Monday that he had met with Iranian leaders amid a "good atmosphere."

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'It Worked For Me'

    Colin Powell is an uncommon man with the common touch. He likes to give speeches because he's very good at it and he doesn't mind traveling. Also, he likes meeting people who have paid to hear some of his considerable wisdom and perhaps to shake the hand that has shaken the hand of every important world leader of the past quarter-century.

  • U.S. Marine Sgt. Albert Winschel (right) demonstrates how to apply a tourniquet on fellow Marine Sgt. Preston Norton as they give medic training to soldiers with the Uganda People's Defense Force at the Singo training facility in Kakola. American military advisers there are drawing on experience from Iraq and Afghanistan. (Associated Press)

    U.S. advisers train troops for Somalia

    American military advisers in Uganda are drawing on lessons learned in Iraq and Afghanistan to help train African Union soldiers to fight Somalia's most powerful insurgent group, al-Shabab.

  • **FILE** President George W. Bush is introduced Aug. 30, 2004, by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a campaign rally in Nashua, N.H. (Associated Press)

    Role unlikely for George W. Bush in Romney bid

    Mitt Romney's campaign doesn't foresee the 43rd president playing a substantive role in the presidential race.

  • "The bottom line is that the Army needs to fix the inconsistencies we have seen in diagnosing the invisible wounds of war," said Sen. Patty Murray, Washington Democrat. (Associated Press)

    Army launches review of PTSD diagnoses

    Army leaders said Wednesday they are launching a sweeping, independent review of how the service evaluates soldiers with possible post-traumatic stress disorder after recent complaints that some PTSD diagnoses were improperly overturned.

  • 'Water by the Spoonful' to land in New York

    Quiara Alegria Hudes's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Water by the Spoonful," about an Iraq war veteran struggling to find his place in the world, will land in New York in December.

  • Marine Gen. John R. Allen, commander of the International Security Assistance Force and U.S. Forces Afghanistan, introduces President Obama at Bagram Air Field on May 2. As president, Mr. Obama has continued and even built upon strategies he inherited from George W. Bush. (Associated Press)

    Bush policies he reviled are crux of Obama's arsenal

    This month's revival of terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay underscores President Obama's reliance on counterterrorism tools he inherited from George W. Bush.

  • Iraq veteran uses rap to treat his PTSD

    On one of the many days Leo Dunson wanted to die, the Iraq veteran put a gun to his temple and pulled the trigger. The loaded weapon misfired. For the troubled former soldier, it was another inexplicable failure, like his divorce or inability to make friends after returning from the war.

  • Briefly: Clashes mar anniversary of 'Nakba' Day

    Clashes broke out Tuesday near Ramallah as about 1,000 Palestinians gathered to mark the "catastrophe" that befell them when Israel was founded in 1948.

  • Staff Sgt. Marie Martinson, one of two female bomb techs in the 88th Air Base Wing Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit at Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, is seen here in Afghanistan with a robot pack beside her. (U.S. Army)

    Pentagon pushes female troops closer to battlefield

    On Monday, the Pentagon opened for female troops about 14,000 support positions that previously had been withheld from them, allowing women to fill jobs below the brigade level.

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