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**FILE** Vice President Joe Biden and Iraqi Council of Representatives Speaker Osama al-Nujaifi gesture toward their seats at the start of their meeting in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington on Jan. 22, 2014. (Associated Press)

Iraqi leader: Nation on course for Syria-style civil war

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE--A man walks past the U.S Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013. The threat of a terrorist attack led to the weekend closure of 21 U.S. embassies and consulates in the Muslim world and a global travel warning to Americans, the first such alert since an announcement before the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 strikes. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Al Qaeda attack on U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv thwarted: report

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

** FILE ** The Senate report on the Sept. 11, 2012, attack in Benghazi, Libya, containing newly declassified intelligence data, coincided with the release of once-secret transcripts from the House Armed Services Committee on what the military thought and did that day. (Associated Press)

NY TIMES WRONG: Jihadists from at least four Al Qaeda groups in on Benghazi attack

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Gunmen take cover during clashes with Iraqi security forces outside Fallujah, 40 miles (65 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014. Violence across Iraq, including a series of car bombings and fighting between militants and government troops over control of the country's contested Anbar province, killed dozens Saturday, officials said. (AP Photo)

Iraq announces offensive against al-Qaida

By SAMEER N. YACOUB and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA - Associated Press

British man allowed to testify at NYC terror trial

By LARRY NEUMEISTER - Associated Press

Lieberman: Obama lacks coherent anti-terror plan

By LAURIE KELLMAN - Associated Press

Baghdad municipality workers clean up as civilians inspect the site of a car bomb attack near the Technology University in Sinaa Street in downtown Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2014. A wave of bombings across Iraq striking busy markets and a funeral north of Baghdad killed tens of people Wednesday, authorities said, as the country remains gripped by violence after al-Qaida-linked militants took control of two cities in western Anbar province. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Baghdad bombings leave dozens dead, wounded

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

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Iraqis examine the aftermath of a bombing in Baghdad. Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh Mutlaq accuses Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki of fomenting sectarian violence to limit the electoral voices of Sunnis in upcoming elections and criticized the Obama administration for failing to do more for a country "destroyed" by the U.S. (Associated Press)

Iraqi deputy prime minister blames U.S., al-Maliki for rising violence

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses lawmakers and supporters of his ruling Justice and Development Party at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, on Tuesday, June 11, 2013. (AP Photo)

Turkey’s six-city raid roots out several al Qaeda suspects

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his supporters at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014. Turkish anti-terrorism police carried out raids in six cities on Tuesday, detaining at least five people with alleged links to al-Qaida, including an employee of a prominent Islamic charity group that provides aid to Syria, media reports and officials said.(AP Photo)

Turkish police detain al-Qaida suspects

By SUZAN FRASER - Associated Press

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, left, during a news conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Jan. 13, 2014. The U.N. chief expressed deep concerns Monday over the deteriorating security situation in Iraq as an unprecedented standoff is underway between Iraqi troops and al-Qaida-linked militants in western Anbar province.(AP Photo/Ahmed Saadi, Pool)

Attacks kill 26 in Iraq during UN chief’s visit

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA and SAMEER N. YACOUB - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 28. 2011 file photo, President Barack Obama stands in the East Room of the White House in Washington with, from left: Vice President Joe Biden and outgoing Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The White House is bristling over former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' new memoir accusing President Barack Obama of showing too little enthusiasm for the U.S. war mission in Afghanistan and sharply criticizing Vice President Joe Biden's foreign policy instincts. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

GAFFNEY: Why didn’t Gates sound the alarm sooner?

By Frank J. Gaffney Jr.

Afghan police officers watch the site of a Taliban attack last year against NATO supply trucks near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. After more than 13 years of American bloodshed and treasure, the U.S. military will leave national security in the hands of Afghans. (Associated Press)

Chaos in Iraq could be omen for Afghanistan without U.S. troops

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian citizens pray over the coffins wrapped by Syrian flags for the victims who were killed Thursday by a car bomb, during their funeral processions, at al-Kaffat village in the central Hama province, Syria, Friday, Jan. 10, 2014. Rebel-on-rebel fighting between an al-Qaida-linked group and an array of more moderate and ultraconservative Islamists has killed nearly 500 people over the past week in northern Syria, an activist group said Friday, in the most serious bout of violence among opponents of President Bashar Assad since the civil war began. (AP Photo/SANA)

Nearly 500 dead in Syria rebel clashes: Activists

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

Republican Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain: ISIS threatens our homefront. (Associated Press)

McCain, Graham call for more U.S. leadership in Iraq

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times