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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Oval Office of the White House Oct. 1, 2014. The two leaders have long had a prickly relationship. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

Netanyahu presses Obama on nuclear Iran

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014, file photo, Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville, Jr., Director of Operations J3, speaks about the operations in Syria during a news conference at the Pentagon. According to current and former U.S. officials, the Pentagon is grappling with significant intelligence gaps as it bombs Iraq and Syria, and it is operating under less restrictive targeting rules than those President Barack Obama imposed on the CIA drone campaign in Pakistan and Yemen. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

Airstrikes launched in Iraq and Syria amid intelligence gaps

By Ken Dilanian - Associated Press

Illustration on options dealing with the Islamic State by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

BABBIN: How to play the ISIS card

By Jed Babbin

Marine Gen. John Allen, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, listens March 26, 2012, during a news conference at the Pentagon. (Associated Press)

U.S. pushing for new ‘Sunni Awakening’ in Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Secretary of State John Kerry, center, and US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power, left, listen as President Barack Obama speaks during a bilateral meeting to discuss the Ebola epidemic with Ethiopian President Hailemariam Desalegn, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 in New York. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) **FILE**

LYONS: A coherent strategy for the Middle East

By James A. Lyons

In this June 20, 2014, file photo, immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally stand in line for tickets at the bus station after they were released from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection processing facility in McAllen, Texas. The immigrants entered the country through an area referred to as zone nine. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) ** FILE **

Feds to spend $9 million on attorneys for illegal immigrant kids

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Illustration on U.S. reinvolvement against ISIS by Schot/De Volkskrant, Amsterdam, Netherlands

LAMBRO: A Mideast policy rewritten in blood

By Donald Lambro

Rosneft opened a field of super-light oil in the Kara Sea, where the deposits reportedly exceed 750 million barrels. Its partnership with Exxon Mobil Corp., however, is put on hold because of U.S. sanctions against Russia over its military aggression in Ukraine. (Rosneft Press Service via Associated Press)

U.S. sanctions against Russia stymie Western oil companies’ Arctic aspirations

By Patrice Hill - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama pauses during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in Washington. The signing of a security deal allowing U.S. forces to stay in Afghanistan aims to keep the country from slipping into the kind of chaos that followed the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. Critics accuse President Barack Obama of putting the political goal of ending the Iraq war ahead of efforts to sign a similar pact there. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama rode elevator with armed man: reports

By Alicia A. Caldwell - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014 photo, a short story in Spanish is used in a class at the Karnes County Residential Center, a temporary home for immigrant women and children detained at the border, in Karnes City, Texas. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

Refugee plan set up for Central American minors

By JIM KUHNHENN - Associated Press

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer talks about the tour that she and Department of Homeland Secretary Jeh Johnson took of the US Customs and Border Protection facility in Nogales, Ariz., Wednesday, June 25, 2014. They saw for themselves the large number of unaccompanied children who have entered the country illegally mostly from Central America. (AP Photo/Arizona Daily Star, A.E. Araiza)

Administration to chime in on 2 Arizona policies

By JACQUES BILLEAUD - Associated Press

In this March 29, 2010 photo, reviewed by the U.S. military, a Guantanamo guard keeps watch from a tower overlooking the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base, Cuba. The transfer of prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay has ground to a halt amid a slow Pentagon approval process. That’s caused frustration within the administration and raised doubts that President Barack Obama can fulfill his campaign promise to close the U.S. prison Cuba for terrorism suspects. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)

Obama goal of Gitmo closure stalled at Pentagon

By Nedra Pickler - Associated Press

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt answers a question during a news conference in Oklahoma City on July 16, 2013. (Associated Press)

U.S. judge sides with Oklahoma in health care suit

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks about the Ebola epidemic, Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, at the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations headquarters. President Barack Obama, in a chilling assessment of international efforts to stem a deadly Ebola outbreak, said the world has not done enough to respond to a health crisis that poses a growing threat to regional and global security. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

HUMPHRIES: The buck stops anywhere but here

By Rusty Humphries

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker addresses the Republican National Committee summer meetings in Chicago on Aug. 8, 2014. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker: I can show GOP the way

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

North Carolina Republican Senate candidate Thom Tillis answers a question from the media during a news conference in Greensboro, N.C., Friday, Sept. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

Tillis draws foreign policy focus in NC Senate ad

By GARY D. ROBERTSON - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 27, 2014, file photo shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi, of India, addressing the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters. Modi meets President Barack Obama for the first time at the White House on Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. His election in May as the new leader of the world’s largest democracy has transformed him from onetime persona non grata into a person the White House will warmly receive. Obama’s courtship of Modi continues Tuesday with an Oval Office meeting, marking a rare second day of attention from Obama. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

Indian leader Modi heads for White House visit

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE - Associated Press

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This June 23, 2014, file photo shows Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen testifying under subpoena before the House Oversight Committee as lawmakers continue to probe whether tea party groups were targeted by the IRS on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

GOP cautions that Senate control would have limits

By CHARLES BABINGTON - Associated Press

From left, U.S. Senate Republican candidates Joe Miller, Dan Sullivan and Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell take part in a debate in Eagle River, Alaska, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Republican Sullivan overtakes Sen. Begich in four latest Alaska Senate polls

By Valerie Richardson - The Washington Times