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President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks at the Senior Executive Service, composed of the senior leadership of the Federal workforce, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014, in Washington. Obama is launching a leadership program for future government career executives with a goal of giving potential managers multi-agency experiences and breaking out of a tradition of promoting senior bureaucrats from within their own agencies. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama reverses course on releasing documents that could ‘incite’ terrorists

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, second right, walks with his Iraqi counterpart Khalid al-Obeidi, left, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 9, 2014. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday that his army is taking the offensive against the Islamic State group but needs more air power and heavy weaponry to prevail. (AP Photo)

Iraqis to Chuck Hagel: Send in more U.S. heavy weapons, air power

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Gaston Hall at Georgetown University on Dec. 3, 2014, about "Smart Power: Security Through Inclusive Leadership" as part of the launch of the inaugural National Action Plan Academy, a joint initiative of the Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security, the Institute for Inclusive Security and the No Ceilings initiative of the Clinton Foundation. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

BRUCE FEIN: Hillary’s gender hallucinations

By Bruce Fein

In this Oct. 23, 1983, file photo, British soldiers give a hand in rescue operations at the site of the bomb-wrecked U.S. Marine command center near the Beirut airport, Lebanon. A bomb-laden truck drove into the center collapsing the entire four story building. The blast _ the single deadliest attack on U.S. forces abroad since World War II _ claimed the lives of 241 American service members. (AP Photo/Bill Foley, File)

BRUCE FEIN: War is the problem, not the solution

By Bruce Fein

Rep. Duncan Hunter, California Republican and a former Marine combatant in Iraq, said more MQ-1 Predators and the newer, higher-flying MQ-9 Reaper make sense. He said commanders need constant air surveillance to find on-the-move Islamic State fighters. (Associated Press)

Drones in demand: Congress eyes more surveillance aircraft for Islamic State fight

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama listens as Jordan's King Abdullah II speaks during their meeting, Friday, Dec. 5, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. The leaders discussed topics including ISIL, Syria, and refugees. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama, King Abdullah plot strategy against Islamic State

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this photo taken Dec. 3, 2014, House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Howard &quot;Buck&quot; McKeon, R-Calif. listens on Capitol Hill in Washington. House passes defense bill backing Obama's expansion of military operations against extremists (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

House OKs military campaign against extremists

By Donna Cassata - Associated Press

Image: Al Jazeera screenshot

John Kerry admits: U.S. wants Iran’s help in bombing Islamic State

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Iraq's Finance Minister Hoshyar Zebari speaks during an interview with the Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec 3, 2014. Iraq's finance minister says plunging oil prices and soaring costs from the country's war against the Islamic State group is hurting the country's economy. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

AP Interview: Iraq official says war hurts economy

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

Secretary of State John F. Kerry led a meeting of the global coalition to counter the Islamic State militant group at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Wednesday. When Iraq pleaded for help in its fight against the Sunni extremists, France agreed to provide more military assistance. (Associated Press)

Iran airstrikes target Islamic State; John Kerry sees participation as ‘net positive’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

An Iraqi Army helicopter flies over the city of Baquba, the capital of Iraq's Diyala province, 35 miles (60 kilometers) northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraqi government reaches major oil deal with Kurds

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

The Islamic State group, which has employed a broad range of strategies to subdue Sunni Muslim tribes in Syria and Iraq, is pushing its war for a caliphate into North Africa. Younger jihadis in particular appear to be mimicking the militants' rhetoric and brutality. (Associated Press)

SEAN PARNELL: Obama’s Middle East strategy is failing fast

By Sean Parnell

Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, has called on Senate GOP leaders to refuse to confirm almost all of President Obama's nominations to judicial or executive offices until the president rescinds his amnesty order. (Associated Press)

Obama amnesty could be thwarted by Congress budget action, legal advisers say

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

This undated image posted online and made available on Thursday, Nov. 20, 2014 by Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently, an anti-Islamic State group organization, shows children at an Islamic State group training camp in Raqqa, Syria. The image has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting. Across the vast region in Syria and Iraq that is part of the Islamic State group's self-declared caliphate, children are being inculcated with the extremist group's radical and violent interpretation of Shariah law. (AP Photo/Raqqa Is Being Slaughtered Silently)

Islamic State: With incentives and brute force, terror group subdues tribes

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

Sen. Rand Paul, Kentucky Republican (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley)

BRUCE FEIN: Rand Paul’s pioneering war declaration

By Bruce Fein