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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Defeat of ISIS requires working with Syria

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Secretary of State John Kerry testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington Thursday during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Assad has broken chemical weapons agreement: Kerry

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this undated file image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from Islamic State group sit on their tank during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center, File)

Syrian opposition welcomes Obama’s announcement

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

FILE - This file 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 Islamic State group leading away captured Iraqi soldiers dressed in plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. Human Rights Watch, a leading international watchdog, said Wednesday, Sept 3, 2014, new evidence indicates the Islamic State fighters killed between 560 and 770 men captured at Camp Speicher, near the city of Tikrit &#8212; a figure several times higher than what was initially reported. The Human Rights Watch statement said the revised figure for the slain soldiers was based on analysis of new satellite imagery, militant videos and a survivor's account that confirmed the existence of three more "mass execution sites." (AP Photo via militant website, File)

US: Terrorist could get Syria chemical weapons

By ALEXANDRA OLSON - Associated Press

President Barack Obama holds a bobblehead doll of himself in the Outer Oval Office, May 14, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Obama underestimated Islamic State, misread motives of Putin, Assad: critics

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams. (Image courtesy of New Chapter Publisher)

WILLIAMS: A belligerent ISIS is not a US crisis

By Armstrong Williams

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Sen. Rand Paul warns against interventionism in Middle East

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference, giving the first public comments by a senior Assad official on the threat posed by the Islamic State group, in Damascus, Syria on Monday, August 25, 2014. Al-Moallem warned the U.S. not to conduct airstrikes inside Syria against the Islamic State group without Damascus’ consent, saying any such attack would be considered an aggression. Al-Moallem also said that Syria is ready to work with regional states and the international community amid the onslaught of Islamic militants there and in Iraq, adding that the Syrian government is a crucial partner in the war on terror. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian official warns US: No unilateral airstrikes

By ZEINA KARAM - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Taking a two-day break from summer vacation, Obama met with top advisers at the White House to review developments in Iraq and in racially charged Ferguson, Mo., two trouble spots where Obama has ordered his administration to intervene. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama to go it alone vs. ISIL in Syria; won’t seek congressional approval

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Mosul Dam Airstrike Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LOPEZ: Islam’s dilemma over the Islamic State

By Clare M. Lopez

** FILE ** Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. (Associated Press)

Critics of George W. Bush’s foreign policy now taking heat themselves

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Obama has authorized reconnaissance flights over Syria, a U.S. official told CNN Monday. (Associated Press)

Obama’s doctrine: Inaction on Syria led to Iraq crisis

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: In Iraq and Syria, pair with the lesser evil

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Lawmakers rattled by Syria genocide horrors, call on Obama to act

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, shakes hands with worshippers on the first day of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan at the Khair mosque, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, July 28, 2014. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian casualties surge as jihadis consolidate

By Zeina Karam and Sam Kimball - Associated Press

A Syrian man who lives in Lebanon stands next of a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad and shout slogans, as he walks towards to the Syrian embassy to ballot their vote for the presidential elections, in Baabda, east of Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday May 28, 2014. Thousands are flocking to the Syrian embassy in Lebanon as expat voting starts ahead of Syria's June 3 presidential election. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Syria’s Bashar Assad set for swearing-in ceremony for third term

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Radical Islamist terrorists stand guard during a hostage handover in the desert outside Timbuktu, Mali, April 24, 2012. (Associated Press)

EIBNER: Syria, Iraq and Obama’s foreign policy fantasies

By John Eibner

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

Extremist group takes Syrian towns, key oil field

By Barbara Surk - Associated Press