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Redskins special teams coordinator Ben Kotwica believes fans will see his fingerprint on a unit he has dubbed "special forces." With his military background, special teams will be more physical, more organized, and more disciplined this season. (Associated Press)

Iraq War veteran Ben Kotwica brings authority to Redskins’ special teams

By Tom Schad - The Washington Times

Illustration on consequences of the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq by M. Ryder/Tribune Content Agency

CROWLEY: ISIS can’t believe its good fortune

By Monica Crowley - The Washington Times

FILE - In this file still image from an undated video released by Islamic State militants on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014, purports to show journalist Steven Sotloff being held by the militant group. Islamic State militants called American journalist James Foley&#8217;s gruesome videotaped beheading revenge for U.S. airstrikes against the group, and they still hold at least three other Americans hostage, including Sotloff. (AP Photo, File)

Steven Sotloff purportedly beheaded by Islamic State group in video

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Illustration by Schrank, Handelszeitung, Zurich, Switzerland

LAMBRO: Obama’s wobbly foreign policy

By Donald Lambro

"The conflict with [the Islamic State] is a zero-sum situation, and the danger it poses to civilization is most lethal," writes Husam Dughman. (Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times)

DUGHMAN: The Islamic State: who they are, how to defeat them

By Husam Dughman

White House press secretary Josh Earnest gestures during the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, where he took questions on ISIS, Iraq, and Syria. He also received congratulations for his newborn baby. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama sends another 350 troops to Iraq

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama holds a bobblehead doll of himself in the Outer Oval Office, May 14, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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Obama underestimated Islamic State, misread motives of Putin, Assad: critics

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Sacrificed: An image taken from a video released by the SITE Intelligence Group shows American journalist Steven Joel Sotloff, 31, just before his execution. (SITE Intelligence Group via Associated Press)

Islamic State beheading of second U.S. journalist accelerates calls for war

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** This Sept. 4, 2013, file photo shows Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn. speaking with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Sen. Chris Murphy: Nothing wrong with Obama’s cautious approach to Islamic State

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

In a Wednesday, July 10, 2013, file photo, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington. Giuliani said Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014, that he finds it "pretty darn credible" that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie didn't know about an apparently politically motivated plan to create traffic jams near the George Washington Bridge. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

Ex-officials urge aid for Iranian dissidents at Camp Liberty

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Pope Francis talks to former Argentine defender Javier Zanetti in the Paul VI hall at the Vatican, Monday, Sept. 1, 2014 ahead of an inter-religious match for peace. The friendly soccer match, supported by Pope Francis to promote the dialogue and peace among different religions, is scheduled at Rome's Olympic stadium later Monday. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis to Iraqi priest: I’ll never leave or forget you

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

In this image made from an undated cartoon broadcast on state-run al-Iraqiya TV in Iraq, a cartoon character, shown with an Arabic word meaning member or supporter of the Islamic State group, and &quot;ISIS&quot; the outdated acronym of the group, appears before a cartoon show. Television networks across the Middle East have begun airing cartoons and comedy programs using satire to criticize the group and its claim of representing Islam. And while not directly confronting their battlefield gains, the shows challenge the legitimacy of the Islamic group and chips away at the fear some have that they are unstoppable. (AP Photo/al-Iraqiya)

Islamic State group becomes target of Arab satire

By Vivian Salama - Associated Press

This undated image posted on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a Syrian opposition group, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows a fighter from the Islamic State group, armed with a knife and an automatic weapon, next to captured Syrian army soldiers and officers, following the battle for the Tabqa air base, in Raqqa, Syria. A U.N. commission on Wednesday accused the extremist Islamic State organization of committing crimes against humanity with attacks on civilians, as pictures emerged of the extremists' bloody takeover of a Syrian military air base that added to the international organization’s claims. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

Interfaith women’s group begs UN to act in Middle East

By Antonio Anup Gonsalves - Catholic News Agency

Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, said President Obama is perhaps "too cautious" in his approach to combatting the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Ann Heisenfelt, File)

House, Senate intel chiefs flag Islamic State risk

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Radio host and columnist Armstrong Williams. (Image courtesy of New Chapter Publisher)

WILLIAMS: A belligerent ISIS is not a US crisis

By Armstrong Williams

President Barack Obama, right, and first lady Michelle Obama board Air Force One before their departure from Andrews Air Force Base, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014. The first family is attending the wedding of Sam Kass, their longtime family chef. The bride is MSNBC host Alex Wagner. The wedding is at a farm-to-table restaurant in Westchester County, north of New York City. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama foreign policy diminishes U.S. standing in fight against terrorism: Mike Rogers

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

Iowa Republicans say they couldn't ask for much more in their struggle to put one of their own into the U.S. Senate seat of retiring liberal Democrat Tom Harkin. Joni Ernst is anything but a shoo-in for November — she trailed Democratic primary winner Bruce Braley by 5 percentage points in recent polling. (Associated Press)

Senate candidates focus on military, veterans

By CATHERINE LUCEY - Associated Press

An F/A-18C Hornet coming from Iraq lands on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 in the Persian Gulf. Aircrafts aboard the George H.W. Bush are flying missions over Iraq after U.S. President Barack Obama authorized airstrikes against Islamic militants and food drops for Iraqis trapped by the fighters. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)

Pentagon: Iraq operations cost $560 million so far

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

This March 23, 2008 photo provided by the Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office shows Douglas McAuthur McCain. The Obama administration has offered a wide range of assessments of the threat to U.S. national security posed by Islamic State extremists in an area straddling eastern Syrian and northern and western Iraq, and whose actions include last week’s beheading of American journalist James Foley. Some officials say the group is more dangerous than al-Qaida. Yet intelligence assessments say it currently couldn’t pull off a complex, 9-11-style attack on the U.S. or Europe. (AP Photo/Hennepin County, Minn. Sheriff's Office)

At heart of Syria fears, extremists returning home

Associated Press

British Prime Minister David Cameron arrives to deliver a press conference in Downing Street, London, Friday Aug. 29, 2014. The Home Secretary Theresa May has announced that UK's terror threat level is being raised from &quot;substantial&quot; to &quot;severe&quot;. Britain raised the country's terror threat level from substantial to severe Friday, meaning that a terrorist attack is considered highly likely.(AP Photo/Facundo Arrizabalaga, Pool)

Cameron promises tough action to fight militants

By DANICA KIRKA - Associated Press