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Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi (Associated Press)

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Islamic State leader, wounded in airstrike, reports say

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - This file image made from video posted on a militant website Saturday, July 5, 2014, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, purports to show the leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, delivering a sermon at a mosque in Iraq. On Sunday, Nov. 9, 2014, Iraqi officials and state television said al-Baghdadi has been wounded in an airstrike in western Iraq. An Interior Ministry intelligence official told The Associated Press on Sunday that the strike happened early Saturday in the town of Qaim in Iraq's Anbar province. (AP Photo/Militant video, File)

Iraqi officials say Islamic State leader wounded in airstrike

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Vivian Salama - Associated Press

President Barack Obama speaks to the media before a meeting with his cabinet members in the White House Cabinet Room in Washington, Friday, Nov. 7, 2014. A senior military official says that American military advisory teams will now go to Iraq&#8217;s western Anbar province where Islamic State militants have been gaining ground and slaying men, women and children. The teams are part of President Barack Obama&#8217;s new directive to expand the U.S. mission in Iraq by deploying another 1,500 U.S. troops to serve as advisers, trainers and security personnel. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) **FILE**

BRUCE FEIN: Congress: Don’t be fooled about Islamic State

By Bruce Fein

President Barack Obama pauses as he speaks to the media before a meeting with his cabinet members in the White House Cabinet Room in Washington, Friday, Nov. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

BRUCE FEIN: Head injuries or method in the madness?

By Bruce Fein

Mourners grieve as the body of police Lt. Gen. Faisal Malik is taken for burial before a funeral procession in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. A suicide truck bomber targeting a senior police officer’s convoy in Iraq late Friday killed several people, including the ranking official, authorities said Saturday. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

U.S. airstrikes target Islamic State leaders in Iraq

By Sameer N. Yacoub - Associated Press

FILE - This file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, which is consistent with AP reporting, shows a convoy of vehicles and fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) fighters in Iraq's Anbar Province. The Islamic State was originally al-Qaida's branch in Iraq, but it used Syria's civil war to vault into something more powerful. It defied orders from al-Qaida's central command and expanded its operations into Syria, ostensibly to fight to topple Assad. But it has turned mainly to conquering territory for itself, often battling other rebels who stand in the way. (AP Photo/militant website, File)

Interpol, cruise firms share jihadi watch lists

By Jamey Keaten - Associated Press

A U.S. Marine provides security in Baghdad. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Pentagon may send surge of U.S. troops into Iraq, sources tell Reuters

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

A group of selected Marines representing Camp Pendleton listen as Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel answers their questions during his short visit to the base Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014. Hagel announced the deployment of another 130 U.S. troops to Iraq in remarks to Marines at this Southern California base on the final stop of a weeklong, around-the-world trip that also took him to India, Germany and Australia. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Paul Rodriguez)

Obama deploys 1,500 more U.S. troops to Iraq

By Dave Boyer and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Illustration on the failing results of our training of Iraqi defense forces by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

WEINER & ABAY: The myth of ‘training’ to fight ISIS

By Robert Weiner and Joseph Abay

President Clinton speaks after the signing of the Balkan peace treaty at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Dec. 14, 1995. Clinton called it the day that turned the shattered country "from the horror of war to the promise of peace.'' (AP Photo/Michel Gangne/pool)

BRUCE FEIN: Neocons argue U.S. fights too few wars, but they are wrong

By Bruce Fein

Gen. George Armstrong Custer

BRUCE FEIN: Obama: Follow the Reagan precedent set in Lebanon

By Bruce Fein

In this file photo released Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014, by the official Saudi Press Agency, Saudi pilots sits in the cockpit of a fighter jet as part of U.S.-led coalition airstrikes on Islamic State militants and other targets in Syria. (AP Photo/Saudi Press Agency, File)

Egypt, Gulf Arab allies eye anti-militant alliance

By Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services building in Phoenix is seen here on Aug. 5, 2008. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Homeland Security tightens visa rules amid terrorist fears

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

To the rescue: Iraqi peshmerga fighters have entered the northern Syrian town of Kobani to join the Kurdish resistance. The forces have coordinated attacks against Islamic State militants, who have been besieging the strategic city for weeks. (Associated Press)

Turkey allows Iraqi reinforcements for Kurds battling Islamic State in Kobani

By Jacob Resneck — Special to The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2014 file photo, people look at bodies of Sunni fighters after they were shot by a group of gunmen on a main street of the town of Hit, 85 miles (140 kilometers) west of Baghdad, Iraq. The Islamic state group has accelerated killings of former policemen and army officers, apparently fearing they might join a potential internal Sunni uprising against its rule. Such killings, including the deadly attack on police Col. Mohammed Hassan and his son in mid October, have accelerated in recent days, as the extremists' opponents - Kurdish fighters and Shiite militias, backed by U.S.-led airstrikes - have made some gains, taking back several towns that the militants had overrun. (AP Photo)

U.S. condemns Islamic State for ‘brutal’ executions in Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Fearing uprising, Iraq militants hunt ex-police

By Sameer N. Yacoub and Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

American armored personnel carriers are now being used in attacks against Iraqi security forces. (Image: The Long War Journal)

U.S. armored personnel carriers used as Islamic State IEDs in Iraq

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Obama, accompanied by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, speaks during a news conference at the White House on Dec. 12, 2011. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama official on Iraq: ‘We had to leave in order to find a way back’

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Illustration by TOM, Trouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands

K.T. McFARLAND: Desperate for a deal with Iran

By K.T. McFarland