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Iraqis mark Police Day in Baghdad. The State Department's decision to close an investigation left unresolved accusations of whether DynCorp let a subcontractor solicit kickbacks from linguists at Baghdad's police academy as a condition of continued employment. The company was hired under a nearly $1 billion task order to provide linguists to work in three Iraqi cities. (Associated Press)

Iraq stymied State Department probe into military contractor kickbacks

By Jim McElhatton - The Washington Times

This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the Islamic State group marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Syria says Washington informed it before strikes

By Albert Aji and Bassem Mroue - Associated Press

aftermath: Syrians sift through the rubble of a house targeted by coalition airstrikes in the village of Kfar Derian. Washington informed President Bashar Assad's government of imminent U.S. strikes against Islamic State group strongholds hours before the bombing began. (Associated Press)

Obama use of Sept. 11 authority for Syria airstrikes questioned

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Fighters from the Islamic State group parade in an Iraqi security forces armored vehicle. Experts say defeating the group is more akin to what was required to beat al Qaeda in Iraq, which was founded in 2004 by Jordanian Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and subsequently led by the group's current chief, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, an Iraqi cleric. (Associated Press)

Fears mount that the Islamic State is plotting terror strike in Jordan

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

CIA headquarters. (AP Photo)

FEIN: Winning wars without fighting battles

By Bruce Fein

Riot police use teargas to disperse Kurdish demonstrators who were clashing with Turkish security forces as thousands of Syrian refugees continue to arrive at the border in Suruc, Turkey, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. Turkey opened its border Saturday to allow in up to 60,000 people who massed on the Turkey-Syria border, fleeing the Islamic militants&#8217; advance on Kobani.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

White House: Some Islamic State fighters have returned to U.S.

By Dave Boyer and Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FILE - In this undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the al-Qaida linked Islamic State group, march in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group will likely take center stage when more than 140 heads of state of government convene for the U.N. General Assembly the week of Sept. 22. (AP Photo/File)

UN to bind nations on new foreign terrorist rules

By KEN DILANIAN - Associated Press

Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) ** FILE **

U.S. military starts bombing ISIS targets in Syria with aid of partner nations

By Guy Taylor and Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

BOOK REVIEW: ‘Before the First Shots’

By Gary Anderson - Special to The Washington Times

An explosive technician in a bomb suit approaches a vehicle near the entrance to White House in Washington, Saturday. The Secret Service says two men were arrested in separate recent incidents for trying to unlawfully enter the White House. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House intruder identified as Army veteran

Associated Press

President Lyndon B. Johnson (right) confers with his secretary of defense, Robert McNamara. (AP Photo/ File)

FEIN: Obama echoes LBJ on Vietnam

By Bruce Fein

FILE - In this undated file 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, fighters from the Islamic State group sit on a tank during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group is often described as the most fearsome jihadi outfit of all: a global menace outweighing al-Qaida, with armies trembling before its advance. But while the group has been successful at seizing parts of Iraq and Syria, it is no unstoppable juggernaut. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center, File)

Canada begins revoking passports of citizens who join Islamic State

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

Wolf Blitzer (Getty Images) **FILE**

CURL: Islamic State a deadly threat to America? More like politics as usual

By Joseph Curl

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden meet with members of the National Security Council in the Situation Room of the White House, Sept. 10, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Obama’s war advisers not instilling confidence on Islamic State strategy

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Freed Turkish hostages arrive at the airport in Ankara, Turkey, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. Dozens of Turkish hostages seized by Islamic militants in Iraq three months ago were freed and safely returned to Turkey on Saturday ending Turkey&#8217;s most serious hostage crisis. The 49 hostages were captured from the Turkish Consulate in Mosul, Iraq on June 11, when the Islamic State group overran the city in its surge to seize large swaths of Iraq and Syria. (AP Photo)

Islamic State releases 49 hostages from Turkey

By Suzan Fraser - Associated Press

FILE - This Sept. 21, 2008, file photo shows Iranian basij paramilitary volunteers, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guard, attending a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran.

Iran’s Quds force aiding Iraqi Shiites with Obama administration’s blessing

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Obama speaks before the United Nations. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Obama vows to ‘rally the world’ against Islamic State at U.N. in ‘moment of American leadership’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry opens a meeting on Iraq at the U.N. Security Council, Friday, Sept. 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Kerry touts coalition for Islamic State fight, says ‘We’ll see what happens’ with Turkey

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times