Lara Jakes

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Obama calls for limited strikes against al-Qaida

Lara Jakes · January 29, 2014 3:16 am

Obama: Troops may remain in Afghanistan beyond war

Lara Jakes · January 29, 2014 2:43 am

Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during the U.S.-Pakistan Strategic Dialogue Plenary Session with Pakistani National Security and Foreign Affairs Adviser Sartaj Aziz at the State Department in Washington, Monday, Jan. 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Afghanistan instability weighing on Pakistan

Lara Jakes · January 27, 2014 5:54 pm

Obama fuels reform on some but not all NSA spying

Lara Jakes · January 18, 2014 8:53 am

Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington on Dec. 10. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Low expectations for Syrian peace talks

Associated Press, Lara Jakes · January 11, 2014 5:00 am

In this image made from Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, amateur video released by Ugarit News, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, people carry a girl out of rubble in Douma, Syria. In the town close to the Syrian capital of Damascus, several people were killed and wounded after a government airstrike targeted a house on Tuesday, reported the Observatory and another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees. (AP Photo/Ugarit News via AP Video)

Kerry seeking cease-fire, aid for Syria

Lara Jakes · January 8, 2014 9:26 pm

Congress eyes spy review in surveillance logjam

Lara Jakes · December 21, 2013 7:01 pm

This June 6, 2013, file photo shows the sign outside the National Security Agency campus in Fort Meade, Maryland.

Is 1976 robbery legally relevant to NSA spying?

Lara Jakes · December 17, 2013 10:35 pm

A photo of retired FBI agent Robert Levinson in an orange shirt holding a sign.

US faces new pressure over missing CIA contractor

Lara Jakes · December 13, 2013 10:29 pm

National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday. (AP/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

NSA: No better way to protect US than surveillance

Lara Jakes · December 11, 2013 7:50 pm

Senate panel OKs limited surveillance rollbacks

Lara Jakes · October 31, 2013 11:44 pm

Iraqi PM: Terror ‘found a second chance’ in Iraq

Lara Jakes · October 31, 2013 8:13 pm