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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry gestures as he takes place on the podium during the 51. Security Conference in Munich, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

John Kerry notes successes against Islamic State, says more time is needed

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

American military personnel have been in Iraq’s historically dangerous Anbar province, but only to help train the Iraqi military for its fight against the Islamic State group. Anbar resonates with many Americans because they recall how costly the fighting was there for U.S. troops. (AP Photo)

Obama war authority request for Islamic State expected in Congress

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

President Obama and his aides have begun to diminish the threat they see posed by the Islamic State, in sharp contrast to rhetoric last year that depicted the terrorist army as an unprecedented force and a danger to the U.S. (Associated Press)

Obama downplays Islamic State threat, changes objective from ‘destroy’ to ‘defeat’

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 26, 2010 file photo, Brian Williams, anchor and managing editor of &quot;NBC Nightly News,&quot; speaks at the Women's Conference in Long Beach, Calif. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, File)

Brian Williams stepping down from news broadcast ‘for several days’

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

People stand with their belongings as they leave there homes traveling by bus after recent fighting between Nigerian government forces and Boko Haram militants in Maiduguri, Nigeria, Saturday, Feb. 7, 2015. Nigeria's electoral commission will postpone Feb. 14 presidential and legislative elections for six weeks to give a new multinational force time to secure northeastern areas under the sway of Boko Haram, an official close to the commission told The Associated Press on Saturday. (AP Photo/Jossy Ola)

Nigeria elections postponed following Boko Haram violence

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

This undated file image posted on a militant website Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching through Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

New sanctions proposed for Islamic State group oil trading

By Edith M. Lederer - Associated Press

Soldiers rush a trauma victim to a U.S. Army medical helicopter in Tarmiyah, Iraq, Sept. 30, 2007. (U.S. Army) ** FILE **

U.S. moves rescue helicopters closer to battlefield

By Maggie Ybarra - 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. ISIS placed eighth on Google's list of 2014's fastest-rising global search requests, the company said Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2014. (AP Photo, File)

U.N.: Islamic State guilty of ‘beheadings, crucifixions of children’ in Iraq

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 17, 2015 file photo, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe attends a joint meeting of the Japan-Egypt business committee in Cairo, Egypt. Behind the sympathy Japanese are voicing over their two countrymen purportedly slain by the Islamic State group is a widespread view that they were "troublemakers." (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)

FRANK GAFFNEY: DIA chief warns of expanding jihadist threat in ever-dangerous world

By Sean MacCormac

MQ-9 Reaper drone fires a missile. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama denied request from Jordan for Predator drones in Islamic State fight

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

This Nov. 13, 2005, file photo made from television shows Iraqi Sajida al-Rishawi opening her jacket and showing an explosive belt as she confesses on Jordanian state-run television to her failed bid to set off an explosives belt inside one of the three Amman hotels targeted by al Qaeda. (AP Photo/Jordanian TV, File) ** FILE **

Jordan executes Sajida al-Rishawi and other al Qaeda prisoner after Islamic State kills pilot

By Karin Laub and Omar Akour - Associated Press

In this Thursday, Jan. 29, 2015 photo, Jordan Matson, 28, right, a former U.S. Army soldier from Sturtevant, Wis., takes a break with other fighters from the main Kurdish militia, the People's Protection Units, or YPG, in Sinjar, Iraq. Matson and dozens of other Westerners now fight with the Kurds, spurred on by Kurdish social media campaigners and a sense of duty many feel after Iraq, the target of a decade-long U.S.-led military campaign, collapsed under an Islamic State group offensive within days last summer. (AP Photo/Vivian Salama)

Jordan Matson, Wisconsin veteran, fights Islamic State with ‘Christ is Lord’ tactical vest

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Jordanians chant slogans to show their support for the government against terror as they were waiting for Jordan's King Abdullah II, returning from the U.S., at Queen Alia Airport in Amman, Wednesday. King Abdullah II rushed home Wednesday, cutting short a U.S. trip, to rally public support for even tougher strikes against the Islamic State group after the militants released a video showing the captured Jordanian pilot being burned to death in a cage. (Associated Press)

Jordan pilot Islamic State execution video triggers Sunni outrage throughout Middle East

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama's new $4 trillion budget plan is distributed by the Senate Budget Committee as it arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, early Monday, Feb. 02, 2015. The fiscal blueprint for the budget year that begins Oct. 1, seeks to raise taxes on wealthier Americans and corporations and use the extra income to lift the fortunes of families who have felt squeezed during tough economic times. Republicans, who now hold the power in Congress, are accusing the president of seeking to revert to tax-and-spend policies that will harm the economy while failing to do anything about soaring spending on government benefit programs. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

How Obama would spend your money in 2016, agency by agency

Associated Press

Soldiers stand guard after an attacker with a knife hidden in his bag attacked three soldiers on an anti-terror patrol in front of a Jewish community center in Nice, southern France, Tuesday Feb.3, 2015 . France has been on high alert since the attacks in the Paris region by three Islamic extremists that left 20 people dead, including the gunmen. More than 10,000 soldiers have been deployed around the country to protect sensitive locations, including major shopping areas, synagogues, mosques and transit hubs. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Ex-criminal turned back in Turkey attacks 3 French soldiers

By JAMEY KEATEN - Associated Press

Jordan responded to the Islamic State's burning execution of pilot Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh by hanging at least two convicted terrorists at dawn Wednesday. (Associated Press)

Muath al-Kaseasbeh, Jordanian pilot, burned alive in ISIS video

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

"U.S. policymakers refuse to accurately name the movement as radical Islam. We further choose not to define it nor explain its ideology, and most critical, we have no comprehensive strategy to stop it or defeat it," said retired Army Gen. John Keane. (Associated Press)

Obama lacks strategy to stop Islamic State expansion

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Chris Kyle is credited with 160 kills in Iraq, making him, as his book says, "the most lethal sniper in U.S. history." (Associated Press)

‘American Sniper’ Chris Kyle essential in 2004 Fallujah liberation

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Jan. 23, 2015 photo, Iraqis look at books on al-Mutanabi Street, home to the city's book market in central Baghdad. One afternoon this month, Islamic State militants arrived at the Central Library of the northern city of Mosul in a non-combat mission. They broke the locks that kept the two-story building closed since the extremists overran the city in mid last year, loading some 2,000 books included children stories, poetry, philosophy, sports, health and cultural and scientific publications into six pickup trucks and leaving behind only the Islamic religious ones. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Islamic State loots Mosul libraries: Non-Islamic texts ‘will be burned’

Associated Press