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FILE - In this Tuesday, June 10, 2014 file photo, refugees fleeing from Mosul head to the self-ruled northern Kurdish region in Irbil, Iraq, 350 kilometers (217 miles) north of Baghdad. The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the al-Qaida breakaway group, on Monday and Tuesday took over much of Mosul in Iraq and then swept into the city of Tikrit further south. An estimated half a million residents fled the economically important city. (AP Photo, File)

Tikrit falls to al-Qaeda-inspired militants: Iraqi city’s security forces abandon posts

Associated Press

REFUGEES: Iraqis fleeing Mosul arrive at Khazir refugee camp outside Irbil, 217 miles (350 kilometers) north of Baghdad following an al Qaeda breakaway group's takeover of their home city. An estimated half a million fled Iraq's second-largest city. (associated press)

Gains by al Qaeda group in Iraq spark fears of a decade’s progress lost

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

In this Monday, June 9, 2014, image taken from video obtained from the Iraqi military, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, military soldiers prepare to take their positions during clashes with militants in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. (AP Photo/Iraqi Military via AP video)

Sunni militants overrun Mosul as Iraq’s P.M. calls for state of emergency

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Obama Poster Disaster Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

BURTON: A portrait of foreign-policy disaster

By Dan Burton

Leader: Jalaluddin Haqqani and his son control 10,000 fighters, training bases and religious schools for children in Pakistan. Haqqani militants who cross into Afghanistan are responsible for many of the brutal killings of Americans. (Associated Press)

Haqqani Network, Pakistan terror group, grows into worst enemy for U.S.

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE – This May 27, 2014, file photo shows Yemeni boys looking at a vehicle destroyed during a police raid on an al-Qaida militants' hideout in the Arhab region, north of Sanaa, Yemen, which resulted in the death of five militants and six soldiers. According to the Obama administration’s most recent terrorism report, released by the State Department in late April, al-Qaida's core leadership has been degraded, limiting its ability to launch attacks and lead its followers. This has resulted in more autonomous and more aggressive affiliates, notably in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, northwest Africa and Somalia, according to the report, which recorded a 43 percent increase in terrorist attacks worldwide from 2012 to 2013. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Al-Qaida decentralized, but not necessarily weaker

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

** FILE ** Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican. (Associated Press)

Rep. Mike Rogers: ‘We have now set a price’ for U.S. soldiers

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This May 14, 2014, file photo shows former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaking in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

News Guide: What Benghazi means in US politics

By CONNIE CASS - Associated Press

An MQ-9 Reaper, armed with GBU-12 Paveway II laser-guided munitions and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles, is piloted by Col. Lex Turner during a mission over southern Afghanistan. Iran-backed Houthi forces in Yemen shot down a U.S. Air Force MQ-9 Reaper drone operating in international airspace off the country's coast, a Defense Department official confirmed Wednesday. (USAF via Associated Press)

Obama’s Afghanistan pullout may end domination of drones

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Pakistan women take part in a rally against the U.S. drone strikes in Pakistani tribal areas in Peshawar, Pakistan, in this April 23, 2011, file photo. (AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad, file)

CIA winds down drone strike program in Pakistan

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

** FILE ** Syria has become a focal point for the State Department in the war on terrorism as al Qaeda-linked groups operating there — specifically the al-Nusrah Front — have expansionist aspirations. (Aleppo Media Center AMC via Associated Press)

U.S. citizen carries out suicide bombing in Syria

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., questions Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, March 5, 2014, during the Senate Armed Services Committee hearing focusing on the Defense Department’s budget request for fiscal year 2015. The committee's ranking member Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla. is at left. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Sen. John McCain says Obama is telling Taliban: ‘Hang on, we’re leaving’

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama, left, is introduced by Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, commander of the US-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) after arriving for a troop rally during an unannounced visit to Bagram Air Field, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday, May 25, 2014. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Top US commander: Obama ended Afghan uncertainty

By RAHIM FAIEZ and AMIR SHAH - Associated Press

President Barack Obama arrives to deliver the commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's Class of 2014, in this Wednesday, May 28, 2014, file photo from West Point, N.Y. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama: Chief threat from decentralized al-Qaida

Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, April 20, 2014 file photo, released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, visits the Christian village of Maaloula, near Damascus, Syria. Two years ago, it seemed almost inevitable that President Bashar Assad would be toppled. Almost no one thinks that now. As he prepares for elections through which he is set to claim another seven-year mandate for himself, the momentum in the civil war is clearly in Assad's favor. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Assad Facebook page displays letter of support from Virginia state senator

By Matthew Cella - The Washington Times

FILE - This May 25, 2014 file photo shows President Barack Obama speaking during a troop rally after arriving at Bagram Air Field for an unannounced visit, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. Senior U.S. administration officials say President Barack Obama will seek to keep 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after the war formally ends later this year. Nearly all of those forces are to be out by the end of 2016, as Obama finishes his second term. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci, File)

Obama to station 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

The next steps: President Obama wants to keep 9,800 U.S. troops in Afghanistan after military operations formally end this year, part of his plan of "finishing the job we started." Meanwhile, he will send military advisers to Syria. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Obama to push Syria escalation; most U.S. troops to leave Afghanistan by end of 2016

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Moroccan police nab 3 for helping Syria militants

Associated Press

In this photo provided by Yemen's Defense Ministry, Yemen's army soldiers hold up their weapons at an area seized from al-Qaida in the southeastern province of Shabwa, Yemen, Thursday, May 8, 2014. Yemeni armed forces on Thursday swept al-Qaida fighters out of a district in the country's south, one of the main goals of the major offensive waged by the military the past two weeks, the Defense Ministry said, amid fears of retaliatory attacks which officials say prompted the closure of the US embassy in the capital as a precaution. (AP Photo/Yemen's Defense Ministry)

Yemen army says kills top al-Qaida militant

By AHMED AL-HAJ - Associated Press