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In this Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, photo, a U.S. Army soldier from 3rd Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division, based at Fort Hood, Texas, sits on top of his armored vehicle at Camp Adder during final preparations for the last American convoy to leave Iraq. The U.S. military says the last American troops have left Iraq as the nearly nine-year war ends. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo) ** FILE **

Noam Chomsky blames U.S. for Islamic State, GOP for religious fanaticism

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

"There's no way around it. American boots will be standing on sand. Americans will be shot at, and they will be shooting back. There's simply no other way to do this."
— House Armed Services Committee Chairman Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon, California Republican

Key House leader says Obama needs new war strategy, U.S. ground troops

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

A convoy of vehicles and fighters from the Islamic State group is shown in Iraq's Anbar Province. Mass graves have turned up in Iraq's Anbar province that may contain up to 220 victims of the Islamic State group.
(AP Photo via militant website, File) — FILE

Islamic State shifts from northern Iraq to Anbar province in west

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Oct. 6, 2014 file photo, smoke rises after a shell lands in Kobani in Syria as fighting intensifies between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. After two months, the U.S.-led aerial campaign in Iraq has so far hardly dented the core of the Islamic State group’s territory. The extremists’ grip on major cities across Iraq and neighboring Syria remains unquestioned. The campaign has brought some gains, with Kurdish fighters taking back towns on the fringes of the Islamic State group’s territory. But those successes only underline a major weakness: Besides the Iraqi Kurds, there are no forces on the ground ready to capitalize on the airstrikes. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

ANALYSIS: U.S.-led airstrikes produce few gains

By VIVIAN SALAMA - Associated Press

President Barack Obama listens as Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks during a Cabinet meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Nov. 28, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

FEIN: Leon Panetta’s foreign policy hallucinations

By Bruce Fein

claim: Militants with the Islamic State plant a hilltop flag near the town of Kobani along the Syrian-Turkish border. (associated press)

Islamic State siege of Syrian border city tests Turkey’s allegiances

By Jacob Resneck — Special to The Washington Times

Yazidi Rescue Mission Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

PIR: Remembering the Yazidis under siege

By Hadi Pir

In this March 8, 2014 photo, motorists ride past a graffiti of the Islamic State group's flag in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia. The world's largest Muslim country is facing a new threat as security officials fear that militants who are joining the Islamic State could take part in terrorism acts on their return to Southeast Asia. (AP Photo)

Indonesia struggles with Islamic State recruiting

By NINIEK KARMINI - Associated Press

The Turkish military is fortifying its border as fighting intensifies between Syrian Kurds and the Islamic State group in Kobani, which has been under attack for weeks. (Associated Press)

Islamic State withstands bombing campaign, plots Baghdad invasion

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, centre, addresses British troops, in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, Friday, Oct. 3, 2014. Cameron on Friday pledged support for Afghanistan's newly sworn-in president and the country's new unity government, saying during a surprise visit to Kabul that Britain is committed to helping Afghans build a more secure and prosperous future. (AP Photo/Dan Kitwood, Pool)

Cameron on Islamic State fight: ‘This is going to be our struggle now’

By Jon Gambrell and Shawn Pegatchnik - Associated Press

** FILE ** In this Feb. 13, 2013, file photo, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta speaks during his last news conference as defense secretary at the Pentagon in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Panetta: Obama vacillated on Syria

By DEB RIECHMANN - Associated Press

This undated family handout photo shows British man Alan Henning, currently held hostage by Islamic State (IS) and whose life was threatened in the IS video in which they beheaded David Haines. (AP Photo/PA Wire)

Video: Islamic State group beheads British hostage

By Jon Gambrell and Jill Lawless - Associated Press

This undated image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda linked Islamic State group during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center- File)

Islamic State presses on, attacking key towns in Iraq and Syria

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Friday, Sept. 26, 2014 photo, Kurds from Turkey, left, and Syria break down the barbed wire at the Turkey-Syria border near Suruc, Turkey. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that a "no-fly zone" should be created in Syria to protect part of it from attacks by Syria's air force. In his comments to reporters on his return from the U.N. General Assembly in New York, Erdogan did not specify where such a zone should be located. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

Turkey approves military operations in Iraq, Syria to fight Islamic State militants

By Suzan Fraser and Diaa Hadid - Associated Press

David H. Petraeus, former Army general and head of the Central Intelligence Agency, speaks at the annual dinner for veterans and ROTC students at the University of Southern California, in downtown Los Angeles on March 26, 2013. It marked Petraeus' first public remarks since he retired as head of the CIA after an extramarital affair scandal (Associated Press) **FILE**

Petraeus: Decision on troops in Iraq likely a matter of numbers

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

** FILE ** (United States Special Operations Command)

Pentagon to give OEF medals to troops deployed on no-name mission to Iraq

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Bush speaks to Vice President Dick Cheney by phone aboard Air Force One after departing Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska on Sept. 11, 2001. (AP Photo)

FEIN: Airbrushing Bush’s Iraq War debacle

By Bruce Fein

President Barack Obama speaks about the economy, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Obama is looking to frame the closing economic arguments of the midterm campaign. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)

Obama’s intel reading prevents needed debate

By Mike Hayden - The Washington Times

Retired Marine Cpl. Michael Meyer, left, shakes hands with former U.S. President George W. Bush after teeing off in the Bush Center Warrior Open golf tournament during an opening ceremony, Thursday, Oct. 2, 2014, at the Las Colinas Country Club in Irving, Texas. This is the fourth year for the 36-hole tournament featuring servicemen wounded in combat service. (AP Photo/The Dallas Morning News, Tom Fox) MANDATORY CREDIT; MAGS OUT; TV OUT; INTERNET USE BY AP MEMBERS ONLY; NO SALES

Bush speaks at annual golf tournament for veterans: ‘You can call it the ‘Courageous Open”

By Jamie Stengle - Associated Press

James Clapper T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times

NAPOLITANO: Throwing Clapper under the bus

By Andrew P. Napolitano