Lara Jakes

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Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, walks with Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., right, and Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before their meeting. Earlier, the prime minister met with Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

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Iraqi PM: US aid needed to battle al-Qaida

Lara Jakes · October 31, 2013 8:46 am

Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, center, walks with Rep. Eliot Engel, D-N.Y., right, and Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2013, before their meeting. Earlier, the prime minister met with Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/Molly Riley)

Iraq seeking new US aid after pushing out troops

Lara Jakes · October 31, 2013 2:40 am

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis, right, speaks at a town hall meeting Sunday, Oct. 27, 2013 in West Bend, Wis. Sensenbrenner gave more surveillance power to U.S. government spies, railed against civil liberties advocates who warned about privacy abuses and even shut down a 2005 hearing to silence critics. Now he wants to scale back some of the counterterror laws he once championed, citing an overreach by the National Security Agency. The Wisconsin Republican plans to offer legislation as early as Oct. 29 to overhaul the NSA. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)

US spying prompts reversal by anti-terror lawmaker

Lara Jakes · October 29, 2013 8:33 pm

NSA chief denies collecting European phone records

NSA chief denies collecting European phone records

Lara Jakes · October 29, 2013 8:27 pm

Intel chief: US spying on allied leaders common

Intel chief: US spying on allied leaders common

Lara Jakes · October 29, 2013 7:19 pm

Key lawmaker: Don’t scrap NSA phone surveillance

Key lawmaker: Don’t scrap NSA phone surveillance

Lara Jakes · October 29, 2013 5:37 pm

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, left, meets Syrian National Coalition President Ahmed al-Jarba at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in London on Tuesday. (AP/Alastair Grant)

Extremist groups hobble Syrian peace negotiations

Lara Jakes · October 22, 2013 4:00 am

Secretary of State John Kerry meets with Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the State Department in Washington, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

John Kerry lauds Pakistan as important US partner

Lara Jakes · October 20, 2013 11:01 pm

US United Nations Ambassador Samantha Power speaks about Syria, Friday, Sept. 6, 2013, at the Center for American Progress in Washington. Power said Syrian President Bashar Assad âhas barely put a dent in his enormous stockpileâ of chemical weapons that American officials believe killed more than 1,400 people outside Damascus last month. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

US: Syrian chemical weapon stockpile barely dented

Lara Jakes · September 6, 2013 7:37 pm

FILE - In this Sept. 3, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. In declaring Syria a national security threat, the Obama administration is warning Americans as much about the leaders of Iran and North Korea as about President Bashar Assad. And Americaâs credibility with those countries will be an immediate casualty if fails to respond to Syria now, administration officials say in making their case for U.S. missile strikes. Itâs a connection thatâs not immediately clear to most Americans _ especially after the White House refused to send military support earlier in the Syrian war. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

US: Chemical attacks make Syria top security risk

Lara Jakes · September 5, 2013 7:57 pm

Scant foreign support for US strikes on Syria

Scant foreign support for US strikes on Syria

Lara Jakes, ap-national · August 31, 2013 4:00 am

A mosque's minaret near the river Nile river is reflected on an open office window in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Aug. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

US-Egypt alliance to remain, despite dim democracy

Lara Jakes · August 26, 2013 7:21 pm