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In this Friday, Sept. 26, 2014 photo, released by the U.S. Air Force, a U.S Air Force KC-10 Extender refuels an F-22 Raptor fighter aircraft prior to strike operations in Syria. These aircraft were part of a strike package that was engaging Islamic State group targets in Syria. Washington and its Arab allies opened the air assault against the extremist group on Sept. 23, striking military facilities, training camps, heavy weapons and oil installations. The campaign expands upon the airstrikes the United States has been conducting against the militants in Iraq since early August. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Russ Scalf )

Pentagon to release secret name of mission against Islamic State

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014, a 15-year-old Yazidi girl captured by the Islamic State group and forcibly married to a militant in Syria sits on the floor of a one-room house she now shares with her family after escaping in early August, while speaking in an interview with The Associated Press in Maqluba, a hamlet near the Kurdish city of Dahuk, 260 miles (430 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Dalton Bennett)

Islamic State: Taking women as sex slaves ‘firmly established’ Islamic law

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Sen. John McCain campaigns for GOP senate candidate Ed Gillespie, right, at VFW Post 4809 in Norfolk, Va. on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014. (AP Photo/The Virginian-Pilot, Stephen M. Katz)

McCain: Strategy to confront Islamic State ‘not working’

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

Sen. Bernard Sanders, Vermont Independent, claims the Islamic State problem was sewn by Bush-Cheney policies. (AP Photo)

Bush’s ‘disastrous blunder’ created Islamic State: Sen. Bernard Sanders

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had surgery on his foot, leading many to believe it led to his disappearance from public view. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, File)

Kim Jong-un misses key ceremony, fueling mystery of whereabouts

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton waves as she leaves the Economic Club of Chicago in Chicago on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Hillary Clinton hedges on Obamacare tax: ‘I don’t know what the right answer is’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson speaks at the Canadian American Business Council in Ottawa on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press,Sean Kilpatrick)

Terrorists not breaching U.S. border: Jeh Johnson

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

The City of London Police mount a large scale operation on Tower Bridge at the launch of project Servator, February 10, 2014. The operation aims to deter, disrupt and detect criminal and terrorist activity earlier and more actively. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

U.K. police arrest 5th suspect in alleged London terror plot

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this May 19, 2005, file photo, Sen. Kelvin Atkinson, D-Las Vegas, listens to testimony during a Government Affairs committee meeting at the Nevada State Legislature in Carson City, Nev. Atkinson says he proposed to his partner immediately after hearing that an appeals court had overturned the state's ban on same-sex marriage. (AP Photo/Nevada Appeal, Brad Horn, File)

Nevada senator proposes to gay partner during public address

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Vice President Joe Biden dons a Joplin High School baseball cap during a dedication ceremony for a combined high school and vocational school that replaces one destroyed by a deadly tornado more than three years ago, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, in Joplin, Mo. (AP Photo/The Joplin Globe, Laurie Sisk)

Joe Biden apologizes for blaming Turkey, UAE for Islamic State

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

A young man retrieves food supplies left by the North Texas Food Bank and the Red Cross on the front stoop of an apartment at The Ivy Apartments complex, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, in Dallas, where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas last week, was staying. Dallas County officials have ordered family members who had contact Duncan, quarantined in their home to prevent the spread of disease. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, David Woo)

Cleanup crew turned away over permit issue at Dallas apartment where Ebola patient stayed: report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Vice President Joe Biden bites his lip while speaking to students faculty and staff at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Mass. Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014. (AP Photo/Winslow Townson)

Joe Biden gaffe on being vice president: It’s ‘a [expletive]’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Hazardous material cleaners prepare to hang black plastic outside the apartment in Dallas, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, where Thomas Eric Duncan, the Ebola patient who traveled from Liberia to Dallas stayed last week. The family living there has been confined under armed guard while being monitored by health officials. (AP Photo/LM Otero)

Hazmat crews arrive at Dallas apartment for Ebola cleanup

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Two days after a man in Texas was diagnosed with Ebola, Dr. Gil Mobley, a Missouri doctor, walks to Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport to check in and board a plane dressed in full protection gear Thursday morning, Oct. 2, 2014, in Atlantat. He was protesting what he called mismanagement of the crisis by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (AP Photo/Atlanta Journal-Constitution, John Spink)

Officials tracking down dozens who contacted Ebola patient: report

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Dallas Emergency Management specialist Greg Guthrie works with others branches of government offices in the Office of Emergency Management, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in Dallas. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings has activated a city emergency management center after a patient was confirmed with the first case of Ebola diagnosed in the U.S. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

Dallas mayor says two-thirds of 100 people contacted about Ebola are tied to hospital

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Wilfred Smallwood, who identified himself as a brother of Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan, speaks about his brother, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in Phoenix. Duncan has been kept in isolation at a hospital since Sunday. He was listed in serious but stable condition. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Ebola patient’s half-brother: No evidence Thomas Eric Duncan knew he was infected

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Families walk by law enforcement near the entrance to The Ivy Apartments. The man diagnosed with Ebola was staying at the complex with family and is now hospitalized. (Associated Press)

Missteps at Texas hospital could increase possible spread of Ebola

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Pro-democracy protesters take afternoon naps on the streets in Hong Kong Monday, Sept. 29, 2014. Pro-democracy protesters expanded their rallies throughout Hong Kong on Monday, defying calls to disperse in a major pushback against Beijing's decision to limit democratic reforms in the Asian financial hub. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

Instagram blocked in China amid flood of pro-democracy photos

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Posters depicting ISIL ambition in Syria and Iraq are displayed as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey testify concerning the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill, Washington, D.C., Tuesday, September 16, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

America says no to U.S. ground troops to fight Islamic State: poll

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Ferguson, Missouri, Police Chief Thomas Jackson issued a video Thursday apologizing to the parents of Michael Brown and the black community for any mistrust they may feel toward the police department. (CNN)

Ferguson police chief apologizes to community: ‘I take full responsibility’

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times