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PRUDEN: Dealing with the mad dogs in Iraq

By Wesley Pruden - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 19, 2004 file photo USMC Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun prepares himself as he waits to make a statement to a large crowd of media outside the gates to USMC Base Quantico, Va. Nearly 10 years ago Hassoun was declared a deserter after allegedly faking his own kidnapping in Iraq, then reappeared and was to face charges. But he disappeared again in 2005, has now turned himself in to U.S. authorities, and is being flown to the U.S. Sunday, June 29, 2014, from an undisclosed Mideast location. Once at Camp Lejeune, the commander of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force will determine whether to court-martial him. (AP Photo/Dylan Moore, File)

Marine who vanished in Iraq has court hearing

By JONATHAN DREW - Associated Press

Texas Gov. Rick Perry speaks during a discussion on "The Border Crisis and the New Politics of Immigration" at the Heritage Foundation, Washington, D.C., Thursday, August 21, 2014. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Rick Perry: U.S. must consider ground troops in Iraq

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Friday, May 27, 2011, file photo, journalist James Foley responds to questions during an interview with The Associated Press, in Boston. A video by Islamic State militants that purports to show the killing of Foley by the militant group was released Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2014. Foley, from Rochester, N.H., went missing in 2012 in northern Syria while on assignment for Agence France-Press and the Boston-based media company GlobalPost. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

American reporter’s beheading galvanizes anger, little action worldwide

By Angela Charlton - Associated Press

A man holds up a rose during a protest Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, for Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Mo. Brown's shooting has sparked more than a week of protests, riots and looting in the St. Louis suburb. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

HANSON: Fanning the flames of racial unrest

By Victor Davis Hanson

** FILE ** President Barack Obama speaks in the James Brady Press Briefing Room in the White House in Washington, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Obama: U.S. won’t stop confronting Islamic State, appalled by Foley murder

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this April 12, 2013, file photo, a U.S. Marine F/A-18 Hornet jet flies low pass during Philippines-U.S. joint military exercise in northern Philippines. President Barack Obama authorized U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014, warning they would be launched if needed to defend Americans from advancing Islamic militants and protect civilians under siege. Obama said American military planes already had carried out airdrops of humanitarian aid to tens of thousands of Iraqi religious minorities surrounded by militants and desperately in need of food and water. The Pentagon said the airdrops were performed by one C-17 and two C-130 cargo aircraft that together delivered a total of 72 bundles of food and water. They were escorted by two F/A-18 fighters. (AP Photo/Bullit Marquez)

State Department asks for more troops in Iraq

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

THIS CORRECTs THE TYPE OF WARPLANE IS AN EA-6B -- An EA-6B 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)

US official: More airstrikes in Iraq

Associated Press

** FILES ** This November 2012 file photo, posted on the website freejamesfoley.org, shows American journalist James Foley while covering the civil war in Aleppo, Syria. In a horrifying act of revenge for U.S. airstrikes in northern Iraq, militants with the Islamic State extremist group have beheaded Foley and are threatening to kill another hostage, U.S. officials say. (AP Photo/freejamesfoley.org, Nicole Tung, File)

Twitter suspending accounts that show James Foley execution

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

The Islamic State, which controls large portions of Iraq and Syria, "seems to be absolutely certain they will be trying to kill as many Americans as possible in the United States as well as elsewhere," said Robert Spencer, director of Jihad Watch. (Raqqa Media Center Via Associated Press)

Islamic State targets Americans at home and abroad

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

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

U.S. officials: Military weighing plan to send more troops to Iraq

By Lolita C. Baldor and Lara Jakes - Associated Press

Iraq Shiite fighters prepare to fight militants from the extremist Islamic State group in Jurf al-Sakhar, 43 miles (70 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, Aug 18, 2014. Fighters of the voluntary armed group formed after the radical Shiite cleric Muqtatda al-Sadr called to protect holy shrines against possible attacks by Sunni militants. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Islamic State to America: ‘We will drown all of you in blood’

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

James M. Evans, chairman of the Utah Republican Party and the pointman behind DraftMitt.org, says the site is part of a national discussion about an improved, better America under a Romney administration. (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Romney’s route could still lead to a ballot

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

Pope Francis called to console the Foley family after their photojournalist son was killed by the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope Francis: World has to ‘stop’ attacks on religious minorities in Iraq

By Cheryl Wetzstein - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama speaks with Attorney General Eric Holder as news photographers photograph their meeting regarding the fatal police shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama to speak about Iraq, unrest in Ferguson

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Smoke rises during airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants at the Mosul Dam outside Mosul, Iraq, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014. Boosted by two days of U.S. airstrikes, Iraqi and Kurdish forces on Monday wrested back control of the country's largest dam from Islamic militants, a military spokesman in Baghdad said, as fighting was reported to be underway for the rest of the strategic facility. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

15 new US airstrikes in northern Iraq

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Smoke rises from airstrikes targeting Islamic State militants in Mosul, Iraq. (Associated Press)

U.S. expands campaign against Islamic State

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times