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Volunteers train at a military base in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, on Tuesday after authorities urged Iraqis to help battle insurgents. Signs emerged of a reprisal of a sectarian slaughter in Iraq. Police said pro-government Shiite militiamen killed nearly four dozen detainees after insurgents tried to storm a prison northeast of Baghdad. (Associated Press)

Iraqi Shiites take a stand against Sunni extremists heading for Baghdad

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Photo illustration/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Golfing while the world burns

By Donald Lambro

SALHANI: Countering Muslim extremists in Iraq

By Claude Salhani

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

Security forces patrol on Tahrir Square in 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/Khalid Mohammed)

Sunni militants capture Iraqi city near Syria

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

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

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

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

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

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

FILE - This Sept. 25, 2007 file photo shows an Iraqi traffic policeman inspects a car destroyed by a Blackwater security detail in al-Nisoor Square in Baghdad, Iraq. After years of delays, four former guards from the security firm Blackwater Worldwide are facing trial in the killings of 14 Iraqi civilians and the wounding of 18 others in bloodshed that inflamed anti-American sentiment around the globe. Whether the shootings were self-defense or an unprovoked attack, the carnage of Sept. 16, 2007 was seen by critics of the George W. Bush administration as an illustration of a war gone horribly wrong. A trial in the nearly 7-year-old case is scheduled to begin with jury selection on Wednesday, barring last-minute legal developments. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

7 years later, Blackwater guards go on trial

By PETE YOST - Associated Press

FILE - This January 19, 2014, file photo provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Syrian citizens inspecting an unexploded barrel bomb filled with explosives, which was dropped from a Syrian forces helicopter on a street in Aleppo, Syria. The use of barrel bombs has spread this year from Syria to Iraq, raising concerns that desperate governments in a number of unstable nations from Europe to Africa to the Middle East will turn to weapons that the international community has condemned as a violation of human rights laws. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC, File)

Increased use of barrel bombs in Mideast, Africa

By LARA JAKES - Associated Press

Notre Dame’s Green uses battle scars to advantage

By VIRGINIA BLACK - Associated Press

Ex-Blackwater guard indicted on murder charge

By PETE YOST and ERIC TUCKER - Associated Press

FILE - In this April 27, 2008 file photo, Lt. General James Campbell (Ret.), left, stands with Carolyn and Keith Maupin, as the casket of their son, U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Matt Maupin, is carried to a hearse during a memorial service at Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati. A man in Iraqi custody has confessed to killing Maupin, whose remains were found in 2008, four years after he was kidnapped by insurgents. (AP Photo/David Kohl, File)

Man confesses to killing US soldier in Iraq

By AMANDA LEE MYERS - Associated Press

An Iraqi man casts his vote at a polling station in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. A key election for a new Iraqi parliament was underway on Wednesday amid a massive security operation as the country continued to slide deeper into sectarian violence more than two years after U.S. forces left the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraq timeline: Key events since 2003 invasion

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

An Iraqi man casts his vote at a polling center in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 30, 2014. A key election for a new Iraqi parliament was underway on Wednesday amid a massive security operation as the country continued to slide deeper into sectarian violence more than two years after U.S. forces left the country. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqis vote in an election without foreign troops

By HAMZA HENDAWI and SINAN SALAHEDDIN - Associated Press

Iraqi security forces line up outside a polling center in Baghdad on Monday, two days before the civilian population votes. Despite democratic elections, Baghdad is gripped by fear and scarred by violence more than two years after the U.S. withdrawal of troops. (Associated Press photographs)

Political uncertainty and violence in first Iraqi election since U.S. withdraw

By Ashish Kumar Sen - The Washington Times