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Hillary Testifies about Benghazi Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

LAMBRO: Hillary’s distinction without a difference

By Donald Lambro

President Barack Obama stands with then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as he announces that she will travel to Myanmar, on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

Hillary Clinton alienates liberals with harsh critique of Obama foreign policy

By Ben Wolfgang - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by Mikey Hassan, members of his extended family stop along the side of the road as they flee militants of the Islamic State group, who took over the city of Sinjar, Iraq. The family, who is Yazidi, fled the city into the Sinjar mountains and then managed to escape to the Kurdish province of Dohuk after two days by shooting their way past the militants. (AP Photo/Courtesy of Mikey Hassan)

US officials: About 4,500 atop Iraqi mountain

By ROBERT BURNS and JULIE PACE - Associated Press

President Barack Obama, right, smiles as he gives a pat on the arm to Cyrus Walker, left, cousin of White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, while golfing at Vineyard Golf Club, Tuesday, Aug. 12, 2014, in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard. President Obama is taking a two-week summer vacation on the island. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

French minister to Obama: Quit vacationing, ‘people are dying’ in Iraq

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

In this Aug. 9, 2014, photo, President Barack Obama speaks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, about the ongoing situation in Iraq. The Obama administration is grappling with how to bridge the gap between its increasingly dire assessment of the threat posed by the Islamic State group and the limited, defensive air campaign it has so far undertaken, which military officials acknowledge will not blunt the group’s momentum. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama weighs strategy against Islamic State

By KEN DILANIAN and LARA JAKES - Associated Press

President Barack Obama stands with then-Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as he announces that she will travel to Myanmar, on the sidelines of the ASEAN and East Asia summit in Nusa Dua, on the island of Bali, Indonesia, Friday, Nov. 18, 2011. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak) ** FILE **

HUMPHRIES: Islamic State collects heads while Obama, Hillary have a hug summit

By Rusty Humphries

** FILE ** Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod appears on CBS' "Face the Nation" in Washington on Sunday, Oct. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/CBS News, Chris Usher)

Obama soldier David Axelrod blasts Hillary Clinton on Twitter

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** In this Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, file photo, French President Francois Hollande delivers his speech at his annual news conference, at the Elysee Palace in Paris. Authorities say the mother of a pupil at a French preschool stabbed a teacher to death in front of her class Friday, July 4, 2014, the last day of the school year. Hollande expressed outrage at "this abominable drama" at the Edouard Herriot school in Albi in southern France. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File)

France to send military hardware in support of Kurdish rebels

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, right, takes a question from Gunnery Sgt. Wilburn Jeffrey during a question and answer period with Marines at Camp Pendleton on Tuesday Aug. 12, 2014. Hagel announced the deployment of another 130 U.S. troops to Iraq in remarks to Marines at this Southern California base on the final stop of a weeklong, around-the-world trip that also took him to India, Germany and Australia. (AP Photo/The Orange County Register, Paul Rodriguez)

US says far fewer Iraqi refugees on Sinjar Mt.

By LOLITA C. BALDOR and ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

Illustration on Obama's disconnection from the seriousness of the Islamist threat by Alexander Hunter/The Washington times

ALLARD: A myopic foreign-policy dip in shark-infested waters

By Ken Allard

desperation: Displaced Yazidi Iraqis gather for food at the Nowruz camp in Derike, Syria. While the U.S. and Iraqi militaries have given food and water, the Kurds took it on themselves to rescue them, a sign of how Syria's Kurds are using the conflict to establish their own rule. (Associated Press)

U.S. Yazidis wary of arming Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Wednesday, June 25, 2014 file photo, Kurdish peshmerga fighters take positions on the front line with militants from the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), in Tuz Khormato, 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of the oil rich province of Kirkuk, northern Iraq. The Kurdish forces trying to protect this northern Iraqi town have felt the brunt of Islamic extremist fighters&#8217; attacks and know how ferocious it is. The militants are bristling with American weapons and armored Humvees looted from Iraqi arsenals, giving them a powerful edge. After Washington&#8217;s promises to arm them, the Kurds say they badly need heavier weapons from the United States to stem the expansion of the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Pentagon planning for weapons delivery to Kurdish fighters

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

**FILE** CIA Director John O. Brennan speaks in Washington on March 11, 2014. (Associated Press)

CIA Director John Brennan downplayed Islamic State threat as ‘absurd’

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks during a press conference with Australia's Defense Minister David Johnston in Sydney, Australia, Monday, Aug. 11, 2014. Hagel is in Australia along with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry for talks with government officials as part of the annual Australia-United States Ministerial talks.(AP Photo/Rob Griffith, Pool)

Obama puts 130 ground troops in Iraq

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Tomahawk Soldier Protector Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

ROLLER: The Tomahawk game changer

By Mike Roller

This image provided by the U.S. Defense Department shows pallets of bottled water are loaded aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III aircraft in preparation for a humanitarian airdrop over Iraq Aug. 8, 2014. Airmen with the 816th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron airdropped 40 bundles of water for displaced citizens in the vicinity of Sinjar, Iraq. American planes conducted a second airdrop of food and water early Saturday for those trapped in the Sinjar mountains, said Pentagon chief spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Staff Sgt. Vernon Young Jr.)

Pentagon: Rescue mission to Sinjar Mountain ‘less likely’

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times