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U.N. says Syria refugees top 3 million mark

By John Heilprin - Associated Press

Mideast Makes the World Sick Illustration by Linas Garsys/The Washington Times

POTEAT: A timid response to crisis across a terrified globe

By Gene Poteat

President Barack Obama speaks the economy, Iraq, and Ukraine, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, before convening a meeting with his national security team on the militant threat in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama confesses: ‘We don’t have a strategy yet’ for dealing with Islamic State

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Extradited Syrian citizen to face terrorism charges

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community arrive to the camp of Bajid Kandala at Feeshkhabour town near the Syria-Iraq border, in Iraq Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. The displacement of at least tens of thousands of Yazidis- Kurdish speakers of an ancient Mesopotamian faith - means yet another Iraqi minority have been peeled away as extremists continue their sweep of Iraq, seizing territory they brutally administer. The Islamic State group fighters already caused the expulsion of Iraq's Christians, Shiite Muslims and adherents of the tiny Shabak faith. The hardliners see other religious groups as heretics who may be killed or forced to submit to their rule. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed)

Muslim scholar decries violence: ‘I am a Nazarene, too’

By Andrea Gagliarducci - Catholic News Agency

The World Trade Center terror attacks in New York on Sept. 11, 2001. (Associated Press)

‘Significant increase’ in terror chatter as 9/11 nears; Islamic State’s rise complicates analysis

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

In this March 24, 2014 photo, work crews drop booms into the bay in efforts to prevent more oil from reaching the shores in Galveston, Texas. The oil washed ashore after a barge carrying heavy oil collided with a ship Saturday near the Texas City. Officials said Monday night that changing currents, winds and weather were pushing the oil not only further into the Gulf, but also southwest along Galveston Island, resulting in expanded oil recovery efforts. (AP Photo/Houston Chronicle, Mayra Beltran)

Oil tanker near Texas leaves after legal dispute

Associated Press

This undated image posted on Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2014 by the Raqqa Media Center, 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. As the U.S. strikes Islamic State militant targets in Iraq, extremists of the same group are unhindered in their growth across the border in Syria, capturing new territory and becoming bolder by the day. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center)

Sources: US considering new relief mission in Iraq

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters that President Obama — who has called the Islamic State a 'cancer' — is not focusing on politics, but is instead focusing on putting a plan in place to defend the United States. (Associated Press)

Congress pushes Obama on Islamic State strategy

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the al Qaeda splinter group the Islamic State, has rarely been photographed. (Associated Press)

Islamic State terrorist group expanded power gradually: report

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FILE- In this file photo taken on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014 provided by the Vatican paper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Fernando Filoni at the Vatican. Pope Francis' envoy to Iraq says religious minorities being attacked by Islamic militants need to be defended and protected so they can return home in security, reinforcing the Vatican's position that military force is justified in this case. Francis has said it was "licit" to stop an unjust aggression, but that the international community &#8212; and not just a single country &#8212; must decide how. Cardinal Fernando Filoni went further in an interview Friday, Aug. 22, 2014, with The Associated Press upon his return from northern Iraq, where he delivered money and met with minority Christians and Yazidis. He said Kurdish leaders don't want ground troops, just equipment to fight. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, File)

Papal envoy: we must see humanity of each Iraqi refugee

By Andrea Gagliarducci - Catholic News Agency

Photo of Armenians being rescued from Musa Dagh after 40 days of resistance to Turkish forces. Armeniapedia.org

STUTZMAN: Deja vu on Mount Sinjar

By Christy Stutzman

GRAZIANO: Letting Kurdistan’s freedom slip into repression’s grasp

By Joe Graziano

LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Call Islamist killers what they are

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem speaks during a press conference, giving the first public comments by a senior Assad official on the threat posed by the Islamic State group, in Damascus, Syria on Monday, August 25, 2014. Al-Moallem warned the U.S. not to conduct airstrikes inside Syria against the Islamic State group without Damascus’ consent, saying any such attack would be considered an aggression. Al-Moallem also said that Syria is ready to work with regional states and the international community amid the onslaught of Islamic militants there and in Iraq, adding that the Syrian government is a crucial partner in the war on terror. (AP Photo)

AP sources: U.S. surveillance planes fly over Syria

By Lolita C. Baldor and Julie Pace - Associated Press

A convoy of vehicles and militant fighters move through Iraq's Anbar Province. The U.S. government is tracking and gathering intelligence on as many as 300 Americans who are fighting side-by-side with the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria and are poised to become a major threat to the homeland, according to senior U.S. officials. (Associated Press)

U.S. citizens joining Islamic State pose major threat to homeland

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks about veterans issues at the American Legion&#8217;s 96th National Convention at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, N.C., Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014. Three months after a veterans' health care scandal rocked his administration, President Barack Obama is taking executive action to improve the mental well-being of veterans. The president was to announce his initiatives during an appearance before the American Legion National Convention that is fraught with midterm politics. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama vows ‘direct action’ against Islamic State

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

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)

GRAY: In Iraqi airstrikes, a troubling pattern emerges

By C. Boyden Gray

President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Taking a two-day break from summer vacation, Obama met with top advisers at the White House to review developments in Iraq and in racially charged Ferguson, Mo., two trouble spots where Obama has ordered his administration to intervene. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama to go it alone vs. ISIL in Syria; won’t seek congressional approval

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times