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NUNES: All is not well

By Devin Nunes

**FILE** In this image taken from video and released by SITE Intelligence Group on Nov. 8, 2010, Anwar al-Awlaki speaks in a video message posted on radical websites. (Associated Press)

Drone killing memo released after N.Y. court fight

By Larry Neumeister - Associated Press

emissary: U.S. Secretary of State John F. Kerry, left, met with U.S. Marines during his visit to the Baghdad Monday. Mr. Kerry told Iraqi leaders that any potential U.S. airstrikes in the country must specifically target ISIL to avoid Sunni civilian casualties. (associated press)

Pollster says Obama’s solution for Iraq must be all-inclusive

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is the only U.S. troop to have been taken hostage by the Taliban in the long, hard-fought Afghanistan War. (U.S. Army Via Associated Press)

U.S. troops set stunning record in evading capture by Taliban

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Iraqi federal policemen stand guard at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq. Tensions in the country have heated up as the extremist ISIL group has allied with more moderate, secular Sunni militant groups, many of whom are not even targets of U.S. operations. (associated press)

Sunni secularists blur picture of ISIL; targets for airstrikes hard to see

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Yemenis stop a police vehicle during a protest in Sanaa, Yemen, Wednesday, June 11, 2014. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Al Qaeda leader Abdel-Rahman Shoueib arrested in Yemen, authorities say

By Ahmed Al-Haj - Associated Press

Photo illustration/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Golfing while the world burns

By Donald Lambro

Illustration on Islamist plans for world domination by Linas Garsys/ The Washington Times

MAY: Years of living dangerously

By Clifford D. May

Republican Congressman John Shimkus said that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) weren't part of a terrorist cell but an army. (Associated Press)

Congressman: ISIS isn’t just a small terrorist cell — ‘it’s the al Qaeda army’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

As he walks to a closed-door security briefing, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., comments on the creation of a secret “Cuban Twitter&quot; — a communications network designed to undermine the communist government in Cuba, Thursday, April 3, 2014, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Obama administration project, which lasted more than two years and drew tens of thousands of subscribers, sought to evade Cuba's stranglehold on the Internet with a primitive social media platform. First, the network would build a Cuban audience, mostly young people; then, the plan was to push them toward dissent. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Say no to Iran helping in Iraq, Sen. Menendez pleads with White House

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

Iraqis who have fled the violence in their hometown of Mosul unload their car at Khazir refugee camp outside of Irbil, 217 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday. (associated press)

Obama administration hints at alliance with Iran on Iraqi militants in policy reversal

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Demonstrators chant pro-al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as they wave al-Qaida flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo)

HUSAIN: Facebook refuses to take down ISIS terror group fan page

By Rahat Husain

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) with truckloads of captured Iraqi soldiers after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

Obama ignored general’s pleas to keep American forces in Iraq

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This image posted on a militant website on Saturday, June 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, appears to show militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leading away captured Iraqi soldiers in plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. (AP Photo via militant website)

Criticism of Obama mounts as Islamists sweep through Iraq

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this April 7, 2011, file photo, Rep. Michael Grimm, R-N.Y., center, accompanied by Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., left, House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy of Calif., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grimm’s attorney stated on Friday, April 25, 2014, that federal prosecutors in New York plan on filing criminal charges against the lawmaker. Lawyer William McGinley said Grimm is innocent and called the federal probe into the former FBI agent-turned-politician “a politically driven vendetta.” (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

ISTOOK: Marine veteran Rep. Hunter says Obama squandered America’s victory in Iraq

By Ernest Istook

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi

Al-Baghdadi, a brutal contender for bin Laden’s mantle, emerges in Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama’s neglect emboldens enemy in Iraq

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Illustration on Hillary Clinton's wrong position on terrorism by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

BRUCE: Iraq, the Taliban 5 and Hillary Clinton

By Tammy Bruce

President Barack Obama answers questions on violence in Iraq during his meeting with Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, Thursday, June 12, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama considers more aid to Iraq in fight against jihadis

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times