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In this Thursday Jan. 29, 2015 photo, fighters of the Turkey-based Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK) walk in the damaged streets of Sinjar, Iraq. Kurdish forces in recent weeks have retaken parts of the strategic Iraqi town of Sinjar, whose Yazidi population was driven out in a humanitarian disaster last year that triggered U.S. intervention. But disagreements among Kurdish factions makes the hold on the town seem shaky and is threatening the wider fight against Islamic state militants. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)

Pentagon blasts rare Islamic State attack on Kirkuk

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Security forces inspect the site of a twin bombing at a crowded market in Baghdad Iraq, Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Islamic State kills senior Kurdish general, 8 of his troops

By Imad Matti and Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

Father Najeeb Michaeel is working to preserve Christian manuscripts through digitization, recording a memory of Iraq's Christian past. Pictured here is a Codex Sinaiticus manuscript, the earliest complete New Testament, from 4th century Egypt or Palestine. (AP Photo)

Iraqi priests work to save historic Christian writings from Islamic State

By Andrea Gagliarducci - Catholic News Agency

FILE In this April 6, 2012, photo, former Navy SEAL and author of the book “American Sniper” poses in Midlothian, Texas. Former Navy SEAL and Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, who won $1.8 million in a defamation lawsuit last year against the estate of the late Chris Kyle, says he won’t see the film partly because Kyle is no hero to him. He tells The Associated Press a hero must be honorable, and there’ no honor in lying. Lyle claimed in his “American Sniper” book that he punched out a man, whom he later identified as Ventura, at a California bar in 2006 for allegedly saying the SEALs &quot;deserve to lose a few&quot; in Iraq. Ventura said it never happened. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Paul Moseley, File)

ERIC SCHIFFER: We must protect the warrior class of ‘American Sniper’

By Eric Schiffer

A man comforts the wife of Jordanian pilot, Lt. Muath al-Kaseasbeh, who is held by the Islamic State group militants, during a protest in front of the Royal Palace in Amman, Jordan, Wednesday, Jan. 28, 2015. Jordan on Wednesday offered a precedent-setting prisoner swap to the Islamic State group in a desperate attempt to save a Jordanian air force pilot the militants purportedly threatened to kill, along with a Japanese hostage. (AP Photo/Raad Adayleh)

Jordan to Islamic State: Need proof captive pilot is alive before any trade

By Karin Laub and Elaine Kurtenbach - Associated Press

Echoes of the past: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton recalled the Rwanda genocide in making her case for U.S. intervention in Libya. (Associated Press Photographs)

Hillary Clinton undercut on Libya war by Pentagon and Congress, secret tapes reveal

By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro and Kelly Riddell - The Washington Times

In this image made from video posted by a Libyan blogger, the Cortinthia Hotel is seen under attack in Tripoli, Libya, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015. Gunmen stormed the luxury hotel in the Libyan capital of Tripoli on Tuesday, killing several foreigners and guards, officials said. The blogger, @AliTweel, captured the moments shortly after the blast, when flames rose up from outside the hotel, appearing to be from the aftermath of the car bomb. (AP Photo/@AliTweel via AP video)

Islamic State’s Libya branch claims deadly attack on hotel; U.S. contractor among those killed

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A Syrian Kurdish refugee child from the Kobani area, peers from a tent on a cold morning at a camp in Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border Sunday, Nov. 16, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, and its surrounding areas, has been under assault by extremists of the Islamic State group since mid-September and is being defended by Kurdish fighters. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Islamic State group ousted from Syria’s Kobani; Kurds celebrate victory

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., bangs the gavel to start the committee's hearing to examine global challenges and U.S. national security strategy, Wednesday, Jan. 21, 2015, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

John McCain to question lack of U.S. ground troops in Middle East

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Outpost: Life on the Front Lines of American Diplomacy’

By Tom Rogan

Illustration on the fall of Yemen by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

TED CRUZ: Yemen’s collapse demonstrates Obama’s foreign policy failures

By Ted Cruz

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, Illinois Republican (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Congressional veterans: ‘American Sniper’ a realistic portrait of sacrifice, war’s toll

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A Houthi Shiite fighter shows support for his comrades after seizing the capital in Sanaa, Yemen. President Obama has yet to reveal a response. (Associated Press)

Yemen coup shows Obama lacks Middle East terror strategy, critics say

By Guy Taylor and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A Houthi Shiite fighter wearing an army uniform chants slogans during a demonstration to show support for his comrades in Sanaa, Yemen, Friday, Jan. 23, 2015. Thousands of protesters demonstrated Friday across Yemen, some supporting the Shiite rebels who seized the capital and others demanding the country's south secede after the nation's president and Cabinet resigned. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed)

Yemen’s Shiite rebels growing in power amid Obama uncertainty on Iran, experts fear

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Chuck Hagel exposes rift between U.S. and Iraq

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Mourners prepare to bury bodies of the entire family of Khalil Abdullah in the Shiite holy city of Najaf. Nearly six months ago Islamic State extremists kidnapped Abdullah and his family members after the occupation of Jalula, a town northeast of Baghdad. Recently, Iraqi soldiers retook control of Jalula and found the family slain. (Associated Press photographs)

Haider al-Abadi, Iraq’s prime minister complains of lack of help in terror fight

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

‘American Sniper’ captures the horrors of war, its toll on a family

By Doug Wright - Deseret News

Text of President Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address