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This July, 20, 2014, photos shows Islamic militants and tribal fighters with dead bodies that they said were Iraqi Army soldiers in Karmah, east of Fallujah, Iraq. Sunni militants seized control of the Anbar city of Fallujah, and parts of Ramadi in January. The government has since reasserted its control of Ramadi, but Fallujah remains in insurgent hands. (AP Photo)

WEST: Those who would rather join the jihadi army than their own nation’s army

By Allen West

In this Tuesday, July 22, 2014 photo, a sign is posted at a checkpoint belonging to the Islamic State group, captured from the Iraqi Army, at the main entrance of Rawah, 175 miles (281 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Arabic reads,"Islamic State, the Emirate of Anbar, City of Rawah." It has been nearly six weeks since a Sunni militant blitz led by the Islamic State extremist group seized large swaths of northern and western Iraq. (AP Photo) (AP Photo)

Iraq: 60 dead in attack on prisoner convoy

By Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Fouad Massoum speaks during a press conference in Baghdad, Iraq, Thursday, July 24, 2014. Kurdish politician Massoum was named Iraq&#8217;s new president on Thursday, Massoum, 76, one of the founders of President Jalal Talabani&#8217;s Patriotic Union of Kurdistan party, known as PUK, accepted the position after winning two-thirds of the votes, noting the &#8220;huge security, political and economic tasks" facing the government. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

Iraq elects new president Fouad Massoum as attacks kill dozens

Associated Press

** 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)

Islamic State orders female genital mutilation for Mosul girls, U.N. says

By Jessica Chasmar - The Washington Times

A Russian-made Sukhoi Su-35S (Wikimedia Commons) **FILE**

Russia sends Iraq fighter jets, helicopter gunships for ISIL fight after meeting in Moscow

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

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

‘We’re coming for you, Barack Obama’: Top U.S. official discloses threat from ISIL terrorists

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Illustration on ISIS's threat to Jordan by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

MAY: Barbarians at Jordan’s gate

By Clifford D. May

Sunni radicals with the Islamic State of Iraq have demanded that Iraqi shopkeepers in Mosul cover the faces of all mannequins. (Associated Press)

ISIL now forcing Iraqi shopkeepers to veil mannequins in Mosul

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, practices spycraft that includes passing off cellphones after limited use and dispensing fake information about his whereabouts. (Associated Press)

McCLAUGHRY: Finish off the “Islamic State” quickly and cheaply

By John McClaughry

An Iraqi nun speaks with a Christian man who fled with his family from the Christian villages near Mosul at a school that was turned into a shelter for displaced Christian families, in Ainkawa, a suburb of Irbil, Iraq. The Islamic State group gave Mosul's Christians until midday Saturday to convert to Islam, pay a tax or face death. (Associated Press)

Islamic State’s threats on Christians used to win support of Muslims

By Meredith Somers - The Washington Times

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. (AP Photo, Hadi Mizban, File)

Iraqi PM condemns jihadis’ targeting of Christians

Associated Press

** FILE ** Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the shadowy leader of the Islamic State, delivers a sermon posted on social media outlets that the militants use. (Associated Press)

Elusive target: U.S. believed Iraq terror mastermind al-Baghdadi killed 3 times

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Democratic Congressman Jim Moran of Virginia speaks with President Obama at a townhall meeting. (Facebook, Rep. Jim Moran)

Russia bans Rep. Jim Moran, 12 other Americans from entering country

Associated Press

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is shown in a video delivering a sermon Friday at the Grand Mosque in Mosul, Iraq. His sudden public appearance after years of building and running his militant operations from hideouts suggests growing confidence in his security. (Associated Press)

Christians flee Mosul after ISIL threat: Convert to Islam or die

By Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

FILE - This Sept. 21, 2008, file photo shows Iranian basij paramilitary volunteers, affiliated to the elite Revolutionary Guard, attending a parade ceremony, marking the 28th anniversary of the onset of the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988), in front of the mausoleum of the late revolutionary founder Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, just outside Tehran, Iran.

Iranian commanders on front line of Iraq’s fight against ISIL

By Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Hamza Hendawi - Associated Press

A Russian Buk-M2 air defense system.

MH17: Fear of ground-to-air missile strike becomes nightmare reality in Ukraine

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times