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Obama claims victory in Iraq, but holds fast to limits of U.S. mission

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

Obama and ISIS by Schrank, The Independent on Sunday, London, England

BRUCE: How half-measures make the Islamic State crisis worse

By Tammy Bruce

President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, left, meet with members of the National Security Council, Monday, Aug. 18, 2014, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Also at the meeting, from left are, Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes, Biden, Obama, Deputy National Security Adviser Tony Blinken, and Homeland Security Adviser Lisa Monaco. Obama took a break in the middle of his Martha's Vineyard vacation to return to Washington for meetings with advisers on the U.S. military campaign in Iraq and tensions between police and protesters in Ferguson, Missouri. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Back from vacation, Obama meets with advisers on Iraq

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama and daughter Malia Obama exit the Marine One helicopter to board Air Force One at Cape Cod Coast Guard Air Station in Bourne, Mass., Sunday, Aug. 17, 2014,, en route to Washington. The president is taking a short hiatus from his family vacation on the island of Martha's Vineyard to attend meetings in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama in Washington for meetings on Iraq, Missouri

By JULIE PACE - Associated Press

Mosul Dam Airstrike Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LOPEZ: Islam’s dilemma over the Islamic State

By Clare M. Lopez

** FILE ** Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. (Associated Press)

Critics of George W. Bush’s foreign policy now taking heat themselves

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

President Obama has authorized reconnaissance flights over Syria, a U.S. official told CNN Monday. (Associated Press)

Obama faces growing pressure for more U.S. military force against Islamic State

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

New Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Ibadi, a Shiite, has gotten votes of confidence from American and Iranian leaders about building a unity government in Baghdad. (associated press)

Despite challenges, optimism high for Shiite al-Ibadi

By Ammar Karim and Jennifer Collins — Special to The Washington Times

** FILE ** 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 of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Lawmakers call for ‘coalition of the willing’ in Iraq

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

FILE - This Oct. 31, 2007 file photo, shows a general view of the dam in Mosul, 360 kilometers (225 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Residents living near Iraq's largest dam say Sunni militants from the Islamic State group have overrun the complex. The residents say the militants stormed the Mosul Dam complex in one hour on Thursday, Aug. 7, 2014. (AP Photo/ Khalid Mohammed, File)

Area around Iraq’s Mosul dam hit by airstrikes, residents say

Associated Press

"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)

BURTON: Stopping the murderous rampage in Iraq

By Dan Burton

Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community gather at a park near the Turkey-Iraq border at the Ibrahim al-Khalil crossing, as they try to cross to Turkey, in Zakho, 300 miles (475 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The U.N. this week declared the situation in Iraq a "Level 3 Emergency" &#8212; a decision that came after some 45,000 members of the Yazidi religious minority were able to escape from a remote desert mountaintop where they had been encircled by Islamic State fighters. The extremist group views them as apostates and had vowed to kill any who did not convert to Islam. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

HUMPHRIES: Wielding hugs and scimitars

By Rusty Humphries

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan greets some schoolgirls who escaped abduction from the Chibok government secondary school in Abuja, Nigeria. Mr. Jonathan, who faces re-election in 2015, disclosed that he has authorized third parties to try to secure the rest of the girls' safe release from the extremist group Boko Haram. (Associated Press)

EDITORIAL: The outrage of the Islamists’ bartered ‘brides’

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Displaced Iraqis from the Yazidi community gather at a park near the Turkey-Iraq border at the Ibrahim al-Khalil crossing, as they try to cross to Turkey, in Zakho, 300 miles (475 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. The European Union on Friday forged a unified response to the rapid advance of Islamic militants in Iraq and the resulting refugee crisis, allowing direct arms deliveries to Kurdish fighters battling the Sunni insurgents, while several EU nations pledged more humanitarian aid. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Kurdish diplomat debunks Yazidi claims of exploitation

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Friday, March 26, 2010 file photo, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the press in Baghdad, Iraq. Iraq's Nouri al-Maliki has given up his post as prime minister to Haider al-Abadi, state television reported Thursday, Aug. 14, 2014 &#8212; a move that could end a political deadlock that plunged Baghdad into uncertainty as the country fights a Sunni militant insurgency. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraq’s Nouri al-Maliki resigns as prime minister amid chaos

By Guy Taylor and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times