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Security forces inspect the site of a twin bombing at a crowded market in Baghdad Iraq, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Islamic State kills senior Kurdish general, 8 of his troops

By Imad Matti and Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

An Iraqi soldier stand guard after a military operation to regain control of villages around the town of Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. The commander of U.S. forces fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Army Lt. Gen. James Terry says the extremist group has been thrown on the defensive, because coalition airstrikes and other measures are taking a toll on IS ability to communicate. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq complains: Obama coalition not doing enough to stop Islamic State

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this Monday, Dec. 22, 2014 photo, Kurdish Peshmerga forces inspect a site marked in Kurdish with a sign reading, "Kurdish mass grave," in Hardan village in northern Iraq. A handful of Yazidis who fled this tiny northern Iraqi hamlet when Islamic State militants overran it in August have returned after Kurdish fighters drove out the extremists in recent days. They want to learn the fate of hundreds of missing relatives and neighbors and they fear they know where they are: Four mounds of freshly dug dirt in nearby fields they believe are graves. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)

Iraq: Suicide attack kills 24 people near Baghdad

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Islamic State abusing women, removing them from public life

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

An Iraqi Army helicopter flies over the city of Baquba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi government reaches major oil deal with Kurds

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

In this Saturday, Nov. 22, 2014, photo, Iraqi federal policemen search a car at a checkpoint in Baghdad, Iraq. The government is now trying to revamp security measures, moving away from reliance on ubiquitous concrete blast walls and police checkpoints. Instead, the plan is to beef up police intelligence units that have gone understaffed and underfunded since the fall of Saddam Hussein. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Iraq to overhaul Baghdad security to stop bombings

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

In this Nov. 12, 2014, photo, students practice at the Baghdad School of Music and Ballet in Monsur district in Baghdad, Iraq. The school has managed to survive decades of turmoil, a feat that speaks to the resilience of Baghdad's residents through war after war. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq: Ballet school speaks to city’s resilience

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

To the rescue: Iraqi peshmerga fighters have entered the northern Syrian town of Kobani to join the Kurdish resistance. The forces have coordinated attacks against Islamic State militants, who have been besieging the strategic city for weeks. (Associated Press)

House GOP leader pushes for U.S. arms to go directly to Iraqi Kurds fighting ISIS

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Gunman clash with Iraqi security forces in Fallujah, Iraq, Jan. 5, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

From IS militant to Iraq informant

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey listens on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2014, while testifying before the House Armed Services committee hearing on the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Gen. Martin Dempsey arrives in Iraq for first since U.S. airstrikes against Islamic State began

Associated Press

Marines and sailors from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, head for a Marine Medium Tiltorotor Squadron 365 MV-22 Osprey at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. (Image: U.S. Marine Corps) ** FILE **

Indiana Marine a casualty of anti-ISIS operation

By Will Higgins - Associated Press

In this Thursday, July 31, 2014 file photo, a column of smoke rises from an oil refinery in Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, after an attack by Islamic militants. Iraqi soldiers battling the Islamic State group recaptured the heart of the town of Beiji, home to the country's largest oil refinery, state television and a military official said Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2014. Retaking Beiji, could allow Iraqi forces a base to attack neighboring Tikrit, taken by the extremists after their lightning advance this summer. (AP Photo, File)

Iraqi forces retake most of strategic oil town

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

Fearing uprising, Iraq militants hunt ex-police

By Sameer N. Yacoub and Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Illustration by TOM, Trouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands

K.T. McFARLAND: Desperate for a deal with Iran

By K.T. McFarland

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 file photo, Kurdish Ali Mehmud mourns at the grave of his brother Seydo Mehmud 'Curo', a Kurdish fighter, who was killed in the fighting with the militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, and was buried at a cemetery in Suruc, Turkey. No one contests that the U.S.-led coalition has conducted more than 40 airstrikes against the militants besieging Kobani, nor that Turkey has granted refuge to more than 200,000 people who have flooded across the border to escape the offensive. But Kurds say that both countries - and the international community in general - should be doing more to help save Kobani from the fanatical militants who have massacred and beheaded their enemies across Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

BAKIR: Congress should equip and train the Kurds

By Falah Mustafa Bakir

Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno testifying on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 23, 2013. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Odierno ‘somewhat’ confident Iraqi army can defend Baghdad

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Obama. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Iraq pleads for U.S. ground troops as Islamic State closes in on Baghdad

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

In this June 16, 2014, file photo, demonstrators chant pro-Islamic State group slogans as they carry the group's flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad. (AP Photo, File)

Islamic State group closes in on Baghdad airport; fighters 8 miles away

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

"There's no way around it. American boots will be standing on sand. Americans will be shot at, and they will be shooting back. There's simply no other way to do this."
— House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, California Republican

Key House leader says Obama needs new war strategy, U.S. ground troops

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times