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A Belgian soldier patrols in front of EU headquarters in Brussels on Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. Security has been stepped up after thirteen people were detained in Belgium in an anti-terror sweep following a firefight in Verviers, in which two suspected terrorists were killed. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

CLAUDE SALHANI: Possibly up to 1,000 Islamists in Belgium

By Claude Salhani

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2014, file photo, thick smoke and flames from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition rise in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. 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/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Expansion of bombing campaign in Syria stymied by U.S.-Turkey discord

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this photo taken on Saturday, Jan. 17, 2015, a man helps an elderly Yazidi woman after Yazidis were released by Islamic militants, as they arrive in Kirkuk, 180 miles (290 kilometers) north of Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic State group released about 200 Yazidis held for five months in Iraq, mostly elderly, infirm captives who likely slowed the extremists down, Kurdish military officials said Sunday. Almost all of the freed prisoners are in poor health and bore signs of abuse and neglect. (AP Photo)

Islamic State militants release 250 Yazidis in Iraq

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

In this image made from video, members of the public stand behind police tape after security forces took part in anti-terrorist raids in Verviers, eastern Belgium. Belgian authorities say two people have been killed and one has been arrested during a shootout in an anti-terrorist operation in the eastern city of Verviers. (AP Photo/RTL - TVI) BELGIUM OUT

France, Germany arrest at least 12 Friday as threats from Islamic State loom

By Angela Charlton and Raf Casert - Associated Press

An Iraqi soldier stand guard after a military operation to regain control of villages around the town of Beiji, some 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. The commander of U.S. forces fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, Army Lt. Gen. James Terry says the extremist group has been thrown on the defensive, because coalition airstrikes and other measures are taking a toll on IS ability to communicate. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq complains: Obama coalition not doing enough to stop Islamic State

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

This file photo taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network, Monday, May 12, 2014, shows their leader Abubakar Shekau speaking to the camera. (AP Photo) (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Boko Haram embraces Islamic State model for extremist jihad

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Illustration on deploying U. S. Aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean Sea by Alexander Hunter/The Washington times

JAMES LYONS: A better way to patrol the Middle East

By James A. Lyons

From Afghanistan and borderlands of Pakistan to Iraq and North Africa, radical Islamists eager to spread their strict interpretation of the Muslim faith and topple Western values have bombed, beheaded and slaughtered — undermining the White House narrative and raising questions about its strategy. (Associated Press)

Obama’s ‘lone wolf’ focus misguided as terrorist threat expands, critics say

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

French President Francois Hollande, left, followed by Prime Minister Manuel Valls, march during a ceremony to pay tribute to the three police officers killed in the attacks, in Paris, France, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. Police officers Ahmed Merabet, 40, Franck Brinsolaro, 49, were killed during the attacks at Charlie Hebdo, and Clarissa Jean-Philippe killed in Montrouge last week. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, pool)

France extends war plans against Islamic State in Iraq

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Displaced Iraqi Christian girls who fled with their parents from the Christian village near Mosul province in Iraq, play by their balloons at a temporary shelter for the displaced Christian families in Ankawa, a suburb of Irbil, with a majority Christian population, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Among Christian refugees in Kurdistan, ‘no one is angry at God’

By Oliver Maksan - Catholic News Agency

Illustration on the need to awaken to the global Islamist threat by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

DAVID HOROWITZ: Obama’s denial of terror threat endangers U.S.

By David Horowitz

U.S. weapons meant for Iraqi security forces used by Iran-backed Shiite militias

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

People light candles as they pay tribute to victims of the attack against the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, in front of the French embassy in Budapest, Hungary, on Thursday, a day after 12 people were slain by two armed men who stormed the Paris offices of the magazine. Inscriptions read "I am Charlie". (Associated Press)

Paris newspaper attack underscores terrorist shift to ‘soft targets’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A still from a home video shows gunmen firing their weapons outside the newspaper Charlie Hebdo's Paris office. (Associated Press)

Paris newspaper shooting exposes rift in Muslim-Europe relationships

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

From the Islamic State's circulation on social media of photos depicting a so-called "cyclops baby" to its fixation on a Syrian town where the prophecies say the final battle will occur, analysts say the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is tapping mythology to convince his followers that the apocalypse has already begun. (Associated Press)

Islamic State ‘in a defensive posture,’ Pentagon says

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Iraqi Christians pray during New Year's mass at the Chaldean Mar Gorges Church in Baghdad, Iraq. In Iraq's war-scarred capital, authorities closed commercial streets to vehicles in the city's center as a precaution against possible suicide bombings by militants of the Islamic State terror. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi Christians: There’s no going home after rise of Islamic State

By Kevin J. Jones - Catholic News Agency

From the Islamic State's circulation on social media of photos depicting a so-called "cyclops baby" to its fixation on a Syrian town where the prophecies say the final battle will occur, analysts say the group's leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is tapping mythology to convince his followers that the apocalypse has already begun. (Associated Press)

Apocalypse prophecies drive Islamic State strategy, recruiting efforts

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

The New York Times building (Wikimedia Commons)

TAMMY BRUCE: Maureen Dowd’s self-destruction

By Tammy Bruce - The Washington Times

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Obama, Redskins failed in 2014

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES