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Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken said the Obama policy on Syria will be nothing like Bush-era war on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan. (AP Photo)

U.S. national security adviser says Iraq to blame for lack of security after 2011

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

A man speaks on a cellphone while watching the town of Kobani during airstrikes by the US led coalition on the outskirts of Suruc, near the Turkey-Syria border, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 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)

Iraqi Kurds head for Kobani to join fight against Islamic State

Associated Press

Chance Pellum is among the small percentage of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans who have joined the Veterans of Foreign Wars. Many others want more than smoky bars and feel unwelcome by Vietnam-era veterans, who make up the largest portion of the VFW and American Legion membership. (Associated Press)

LERMON: What those who serve their country deserve

By Mike Lermon

Saddam Hussein

KIM HOLMES: Uncomfortable truths: Explaining away Iraq’s real WMD

By Kim R. Holmes

Marines and sailors from India Company, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, head for a Marine Medium Tiltorotor Squadron 365 MV-22 Osprey at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif. (Image: U.S. Marine Corps) ** FILE **

Marine Lance Cpl. Sean P. Neal dies during Inherent Resolve deployment to Baghdad

Associated Press

FILE - In this Oct. 14, 2014 file photo, President Barack Obama speaks during a meeting with more than 20 foreign defense ministers on the ongoing operations against the Islamic State group, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. Nearly two-thirds of Americans believe the threat posed by the Islamic State militants is a very important issue, and fewer than half approve of the way President Barack Obama is handling the danger posed by them, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll. Forty-six percent of the Americans surveyed say the U.S. military response in Iraq and Syria has not gone far enough and a majority think America’s partners need to up their game in the fight. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Poll: 2 of 3 Americans say IS threat is important

By Deb Riechmann and Emily Swanson - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, May 27, 2011, file photo, journalist James Foley poses for a photo during an interview with The Associated Press in Boston. A memorial service is scheduled Saturday, Oct. 18, 2014, in Foley's hometown of Rochester, N.H., on what would have been his 41st birthday. Foley was abducted in Syria on Thanksgiving Day 2012, and a video by Islamic State militants that purported to show his killing by the militant group was released Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

FBI warns U.S. journalists of Islamic State threat

By Jennifer Pompi - The Washington Times

War Loot: Islamic State militants rummage through a cache of weapons airdropped by U.S.-led coalition forces. The weapons were meant to supply Kurdish forces battling the extremist group in Kobani, Syria, but "now they are spoils for the mujahedeen," one militant said. (Associated Press)

Islamic State among ‘best-funded’ terrorist groups on earth: Treasury Dept.

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

President Obama and Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (Associated Press/File)

CHARLES ORTEL: Erdogan’s Turkey an unreliable ally against jihadists

By Charles Ortel

A new mission: After serving eight years in the Army Reserves, including a tour in Iraq, Kate Hoit wants to stay active in community service. She and other post-9/11 veterans say they feel more welcome in modern groups. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Younger veterans bypass VFW, American Legion for service, fitness groups

By Jacqueline Klimas - The Washington Times

Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi listens to a question during an interview with The Associated Press in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. Iraq’s new prime minister says foreign ground troops are neither necessary nor wanted in his country’s fight against the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq lawmakers approve interior, defense ministers

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra - Associated Press

FILE - In this Saturday, Oct. 11, 2014 file photo, Kurdish Ali Mehmud mourns at the grave of his brother Seydo Mehmud 'Curo', a Kurdish fighter, who was killed in the fighting with the militants of the Islamic State group in Kobani, Syria, and was buried at a cemetery in Suruc, Turkey. No one contests that the U.S.-led coalition has conducted more than 40 airstrikes against the militants besieging Kobani, nor that Turkey has granted refuge to more than 200,000 people who have flooded across the border to escape the offensive. But Kurds say that both countries - and the international community in general - should be doing more to help save Kobani from the fanatical militants who have massacred and beheaded their enemies across Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

BAKIR: Congress should equip and train the Kurds

By Falah Mustafa Bakir

Oil pumps work at sunset in the desert oil fields of Sakhir, Bahrain, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2014. The price of oil suffered its biggest drop in nearly two years after the International Energy Agency reduced its forecast for demand for this year and next. Benchmark U.S. crude fell $3.90, or 4.5 percent, to close at $81.84 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. That was the biggest decline since November 2012. The closing price is the lowest since June 2012. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Falling oil prices shake up global economies

By Jonathan Fahey - Associated Press